There is no evidence that a substantial number of Hispanic parents would like their children to know more about Simon Bolivar and less about George Washington, or that Oriental parents feel that their children are being educationally deprived because their textbooks teach them more about ancient Greece than about ancient China. But most adult Hispanics and Orientals do not have any such concern. The process is not without pain and turmoil, but it works. Ironically, and sadly, it has not worked so well for American blacks, among the earliest arrivals. Hence, out of desperation, the turn to multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism comes in varying kinds and varying degrees of intensity.
A child may come home from elementary school knowing more about Harriet Tubman than about Abraham Lincoln. This can be disconcerting to white parents and baffling to Hispanics or Orientals, but presumably they can shrug it off as a transient phenomenon. There is no evidence that it does. In fact, as is well known by now, the problems of young blacks do not arise in our schools, nor are they remediable there. Actually, hiring more black male teachers is a good idea.