ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to assess the dominance that multiculturalism has come to enjoy over the curriculum of American higher education. In it, three main issues are addressed: the extent of the damage being done by multiculturalism to higher education; the uniqueness of Western civilization as the engine of the dawning global civilization, making it the proper focus of education. And tentative recommendations for educators working to readjust one's focus. Any consideration of multiculturalism must take into account the important treatment of the subject presented by the philosopher Charles Taylor in his now almost classic essay 'The Politics of Recognition'. The problem of reception or cultural adaptation escapes Taylor's analysis; the discipline of philosophy does not allow him to address these problems, which are so real to historians, political scientists, and anthropologists. In the new relationship of mutual respect and equal worth, cultural influences and ethnic differences should equal out.
