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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: What A White Person Learned in College About AfAm Culture
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 10 Jan 93 09:12:33 GMT
- References: <BETSYS.93Jan3210654@ra.cs.umb.edu> <1993Jan4.081435.2354@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> <38177@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
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- >In article <1993Jan4.081435.2354@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> turnerbl@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
- >
- ># A perception is going around that poor balck students can't learn
- ># because of the schools that they are in. This has been disproved
- ># again and again by the waves of immigrant asian students from poor
- ># schools who still score in the top of their schools as well as top
- ># in the SAT/ACT tests. Students, not schools, make these choices.
- ># It always comes back to the kid.
-
- This comparison is altogether too simplistic. The differences between
- Asians and African-Americans are a large as the differences between any
- other two groups on Earth. This is like saying that any two
- disadvantaged groups are fundamentally the same, subsuming all of their
- rich cultural histories and vibrant differences by just lumping them
- together under the rubric "Not White." No, I'm not saying that AfAm
- students and Asian students are not both at a disadvantage, but I'm also
- not saying that the problems they face are the same. AfAm students do
- not face a language barrier, whiile Asians were not brought to this
- country in chains.
-
- Would you say that because Asian students do well in graduate physics
- that women should also? Not all disadvantaged groups are the same. We
- are as diverse as any peoples on this planet.
-
- Regards,
- Janis C.
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