Welcome
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Our Summer Youth Program
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Manhattan Multicultural Summer Youth Program (MMSY) brings together youths of different cultures, ethnicities, and faiths from around New York City area to provide opportunity to engage with one another and create an environment where people can share, respect, and value cultural differences.
The MMSY increases intercultural awareness that can create lifelong respect for other cultures, thereby reducing racial, religious, and intercultural tension. Through exposure to people of a diverse range of backgrounds, youths in New York City area will gain a greater appreciation and understanding of one another’s difference and similarities.
Founded in 2003, MMC aims at providing cultural competency programs and counseling services to adolescents and families in the New York City area.
New York City is a melting pot, which brings people from different regions of the United States and the world, together in one place. This diversity, brings many different perspectives into our lives, enriches our own experiences, and provides an opportunity for us to deepen our understanding of other cultures and backgrounds.
| According to Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities….adopted by General Assembly resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992 Article 4:4 -- States should, where appropriate, take measure in the field of education, in order to encourage knowledge of the history, traditions, language and culture of minorities existing within their territory. Person belonging to minorities should have adequate opportunities to gain knowledge of the society as a whole. |
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| “Tolerance Human beings must respect one another, in
all their diversity of belief, culture and language. Differences within
and between societies should be neither feared nor repressed, but cherished
as a precious asset of humanity” Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, 2000
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