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- Your article is fourth in this packet: "Teach Diversity With a Smile" POST YOUR SUMMARY HERE
 * Note from Ms. W - While you have summarized her ideas well, you still have a bit of residual opinion lurking here. And you do rely on quoting. When/if you clean this up for your portfolio, see if you can paraphrase everything and eliminate your biases.**

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of 1990's article, "Teach Diversity With A Smile", reports on the idea of, "multiculturalism", and its threats of becoming too dominating towards being, "politically correct". Ehrenreich believes in the ideals and morals that multiculturalism tries to pursue, for example, the idea of teaching and spreading diversity with an intention of enlightening other folk that are raised in "monocultural" homes (Ehrenreich, 159). She also believes that with this endeavor the most jubilant advocates may try to tackle political correctness into fanatical proportions. In her attempts to unfold this monocultural society, her logos and pathos appeals are what really makes her examples effective. "Our families and neighborhoods reinforced the dogma of monoculturalism. In our heads, most of us '50s teenagers carried around a social map that was about as useful as the chart that guided Columbus to the 'Indies'...Of religions, only three were known--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish--and not much was known about the last two types" (Ehrenreich, 159). With her first hand knowledge we begin to see her logic to explain the hesitance of the "mono-cultured" folk to embrace new cultures, and that they may be too sheltered to actually be thrown into this whirlwind of political correctness, which appeals to her pathos as she displays her own accounts emotionally. Her ethos appeals also acts as a concession, when she states, "So I applaud--with one hand, anyway--the mulitculturalist goal of preparing us all for a wider world. The other hand is tapping its fingers impatiently, because the critics are right about one thing: when advocates of multiculturalism adopt the haughty stances of political correctness, they quickly descend to silliness of worse" (Ehrenreich,159). Here she addresses both arguments and then ends with a rebuttal in her favor, a very effective appeal on her end. She also states, "Diversity is challenging, but those of us who have seen the alternative know it is also richer, livelier and ultimately more fun" (Ehrenreich, 160).