Let's Tell the Story of All Americas Cultures
In a manner similar to previous reading, this personal essay describes the educational experiences of an immigrant to the United States. Writing at the age of twenty-one, Yuhfill, a Korean-American student, bemoans the lack of discussion of people of color throughout her primary and secondary education, in both her classes and history books. She describes the feelings and discrimination of invisibility she experienced as a minority student. Yuhfill stresses the importance of a multicultural education that records the diverse histories and accomplishments of non-white Americans and provides student with a critical perspective on the discrepancies between the democratic ideals of United States and its social realities.

Yuhfills essay often leads to discussions of educational goals, the value of multicultural education, the nature of students own education (including the presence and lack of certain subjects and groups of people in history texts and classroom discussions), the American dream, and ways to combat discrimination.

In the essay, she discusses her personal experiences with history classes that did not recognizes the contribution of various ethnic groups to the formation of the United States. She was taught that only white people were Americans and they were the best. In addition, they founded the United States. Black people were only slaves. Native Indians were only scalpers. In fact, Benjamin Franklin adapted the model of the Iroquois federation of nations into American system of state and federal government. The white people stole the land of native Indians by deceiving and killing them. Asian immigrants made the desert of California fertile. The Chinese immigrants, Ah Bing, made cherry popular all over America. Asian labours made sugarcane plantation a success in Hawaii. However, they were not given U.S. citizenship. Similarly, Black leaders and scholars were not valued.

Americans captured the American southwest and California after the Mexican-American war and always tried to extend their border to Mexico. When other American children told her to go back to her native land, she would believe that she was not an American. In addition, she thought that American democratic ideals were not for her.

According to the report, this is a unique beauty of U.S. all American children should have been given this information a long time ago.