Multicultural Citizenship Education In America and Implication for National Minority Education in our Country

Complex multicultural society background has brought many difficulties to the development of America. The education for children from poor immigrant families has become the focus of the citizenship education with elimination racial prejudice as it score objective. To reconstruct the multicultural citizenship Education in America, the relationship between different races should be improved, and ethnic prejudice And discrimination must be eliminated. Meanwhile, students of different gender, from diverse races, and with varied ethnic and language backgrounds should be helped to acquire knowledge, values and skills. So that they can participate actively in individual, social and civic activities to construct a democratic Society of justice and fair, and to build a system of citizenship education evolving from nationalism to Globalism. China, as a multinational and multicultural country, should also expand the connotation of Citizenship education in terms of its education ideas and methods. Citizenship education in our country should also be reformed from its objectives, contents and methods to fit the needs of China in the context of Globalization.