Formal education in China serves as a means to reinforce national integration, and schools exhibit limited tolerance for cultural diversity, which significantly disadvantages students of ethnic minorities. On the one hand, minority cultures are to a large extent excluded in the curricula; and on the other hand, an assimilative approach is applied with a view to eliminating cultural differences. Since one of the major goals of multicultural education is to promote equity by celebrating minority cultural heritage, I suggest that the exclusive approaches should be terminated, and school education should embrace multiculturalism.