ABSTRACT
Multicultural education will help to reduce possible problems during the transition. Cultural integration is not new. Ancient cultures, including those in the Americas, established trade routes and shared artifacts of their societies. Multicultural education is an important element for ensuring that global schooling focuses on human welfare along with environmental and human rights education. Global school systems need to focus on the problems associated with the world migration of peoples. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, imperialism and colonialism speeded up the process of global cultural exchange. As colonial empires collapsed in the later part of the twentieth century, modern technology speeded up the process of globalization. The problems associated with the cultural destruction and economic domination of colonialism are still unresolved, and global school systems need to participate in the restoration of dominated cultures, particularly indigenous cultures, and help students to negotiate between global and local cultures.
