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In the highly competitive transnational marketplace the United States is confronted with unending pressure to sustain a competitive position, adapt to continuous changes, and prepare K-12 students to be contributors in the global workforce when they graduate. Public school administrators and decision-makers will be challenged with integrating courses and workshops about diversity and multiculturalism into K-12 curricula. Additionally, many teachers will require training about cultural awareness and sensitivity so their students receive non-biased, ethical information to increase their perspicacity about diversification in customs and cultures among people (Eberly, Rand & O'Connor, 2007). Anarchic situations occurring around the world can have an adverse effect on people across all cultures. In the Middle East, for example, the clash between absolutists and secularists over what each sect recognizes as the appropriate affectation for worshiping Allah may impact on students when they are uprooted and migrate to a new environment (Bilgrami, 2003). It is likely that many of these K-12 students will experience some cultural impingements because they may not have had opportunities to engage in camaraderie, or associate with people from different cultures and ethnicities. Demographic displacements involving massive movements of people around the globe can affect people and their cultures. Measurable increases in immigrants to the United States (U.S.), and the movement of people within the country, could have an impact on the American public school system and K-12 students. Administrators and teachers should understand that children of new immigrants desperately need attention, guidance and encouragement so they can begin to absorb and share their talents and knowledge with others around them. This will prepare them to adapt to change and live in a complicated global society (Brabant & Hochman, 2004). The impact of global
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