Multicultural shift isn't on the way - it's here

Noted inter-faith advocate, Eboo Patel, poses the possibility that the multiculturalism (and potentially internationalism) that has been proposed as the future of the United States is already here. The evidence he cites is corporate advertising that increasingly includes people of more diverse backgrounds than we've seen in the past. The question he raises is how living in a multicultural society, rather than anticipating it, might change higher education's approach.

Two things come to mind: 1) helping students embrace multiculturalism as opportunity and 2) addressing the backlash of White supremacy that perpetuates competition for the cultural future of the U.S.A. and other countries experiencing the resurgence of conservativism.