The Research Of American Civic Education Under The Multicultural Background And Its Enlightenment To Our Country

With the trend of economic globalization, and the expanding of human interaction, the multicultural has become inevitable. The communication, penetration, fusion of different culture has become an objective fact. The multicultural made more demands and challenges to civic education which can strengthen national identity. The United States, as the typical multicultural country, the diversity of its nation and ethnic makes the cultural characteristics extremely prominent. In the multicultural background, the success or failure of American civic education have important enlightenment for China---the same multi-ethnic, multicultural country, it is worth of a further research.As a typical nation of immigrants, how to make the immigrant ethnic culture and traditional culture to maintain harmony and unity, In a multicultural context, American assimilation and multiculturalism give the most representative answers. Cultivating the American spirit of all citizens, especially influx of immigrants to build a strong unity of the United States, is basic goal of American Civic Education. In a multicultural context, focusing on the diversity of educating and training the global citizens to become a new part of its goal. Civic education on the basis of the diverse exhibits a certain theme, such as the national spirit education and social norms education. In the multicultural background, multicultural education got more attention. American has increasingly formed a mutual coordination and cooperation of a large network of civic education, take advantage of every occasion to promote its lifestyle and values of the United States.In a multicultural context, American civic education not only promote the core values of its nation but also concerns the diversification of the various ethnic values, it is deeply rooted American spirit, developed multicultural education, raised awareness of global citizenship and multicultural needs of citizens also continue to be met. Under multicultural background, American civic education is remarkable, however, the racial discrimination and other issues also need to be resolved. Therefore, according to our problems and shortcomings of civic education, we should selectively learn from the United States experience, make a clear educational goal, enrich educational content, optimize educational way to deal with multicultural challenges and promote citizen awareness.