Teaching Multiculturalism using the Tourist Model

Teachers in the classroom strive to find fun and exciting activities for their students to do to help them better relate and understand the material.  Some teachers, however, try to introduce multiculturalism in the classroom by establishing one link such as food or maybe a trinket or tow.  These methods are O.K. as long as you elaborate more on the culture you are explaining.  Just to use these tourist methods of introducing multiculturalism can help fuel stereotypes and other harmful ideas that can actually be anti progressive.