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Sometimes we protect ourselves by ostra cizing that different, sometimes by coercing, indenturing or enslaving it, sometimes by liqui dating it. Always we would, if we could, digest it culturally as we digest vegetables and animals biologically. Horace Kallen CULTURAL pluralism has been a dominant feature in man's very recent history; and, yet, there has been a general failure to consider its meaning and to ex amine its implications for American culture in general and the field of education in par ticular. The persistence of antecedent cul tural traditions and successive migrations of vast numbers of people accounts, in very large measure, for the present cultural plural ism existing in the United States and specific settings therein. The processes of cultural survival and migration contribute to a diverse and con- flictive sociocultural condition to which all institutions, including schools, must adapt. Today, the very spatial and social mobility of populations, both in terms of their urban concentration around the city core and their subsequent flight and extension to the city's more rural environs, has created many new problems for the schools and the educational process.