ABSTRACT
Today, the United States and other nations are attempting to adjust to the internal political demands of distinct societies within their boundaries. It has become clear that no single group can have control of a democratic nation without support of the other groups. The first bureaucratic response from the dominant Euro-American sub-group to challenges from other sub-groups was to develop a new vocabulary. Many politicians and social service professionals now talk about our ‘multi-cultural’ society or ‘cultural diversity’. A new way of talking is, however, not enough. The time has come to confront hard reality and to determine the actions necessary to maintain the cultural diversity that the US government apparently values. We must ask, ‘What are the primary critical constituent elements of the cultural ecology necessary to maintain and enhance these separate social systems and their cultural vitality?’
