Abstract

　　As a nation of immigrants, the Unites States is a kaleido-scope of ethnics, languages, religions, and cultures. Nevertheless, the Anglo Saxon Protestant culture has been the dominant culture of the United States ever since it was founded, which permeated into every aspect of U.S. political, economic, religious, and social life, and provided the immense cohesive, and centripetal power. However, inspired and driven up by the civil rights movement in the United States, the multiculturalism steadily gained momentum in the 1970s, which questioned the domination of Anglo Saxon protestant culture, reexamined the relations between the Anglo Saxon protestant culture and other ethnic cultures, and embarked on a series of reforms and
multicultural experiments in education and employment, among others. The multicultural call and experimentation drew great concerns and even outright hosility from the cultural conservatives, who since the late 1980s have waged a war of cultures against the multiculturalism to safeguard the dominant status of Anglo Saxon culture, with the partial support from the government, which has taken measures to cope with the multicultural turn in education and cumployment, among others.

Key words

　　multiculturalism  cultural war  US cultural policy

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