1. Differentiate between the terms ethnicity and race. Ethnicity refers to a group’s shared common cultural characteristics such as history, homeland, languages, traditions, or religion. However, race functions a category containing men and women who are similar biologically. In other words, a person’s race is mostly determined by his or her outside appearance while a person’s ethnicity is determined by their past and cultural/religious orientation (108-1-09). 2. Does ethnicity or race impact school achievement? Why or why not? Yes, ethnicity and race do effect school achievement. According to Woolfolk, “most researchers agree that the reasons for these differences are mainly the legacy of discrimination, the product of culture mismatches and language differences, or a result of growing up in poverty” (109). Although research shows that students of other do tend to preform slightly lower than their white counterparts, race may not be the only contributor to this issue. Later Woolfolk indicates that the higher rates of poverty may also contribute to the achievement gaps seen between races (110). 3. Desegregation and integration are not easy or quick fixes. What are some challenges that arise when you try to put people together who have been apart? …show more content…
Challenges of desegregation and integration are that people may refuse to respect one another.
Overcoming people’s negative emotions and assumptions about each other can be extremely difficult. Desegregation and integration may even cause some parents to send their students elsewhere to school. Finally, ensuring that every student get a quality education becomes an even greater challenge as teachers must learn to conquer their own stereotypes and prejudice. Educators must be careful when placing students of in different tracks as too often students of other race are put in to low track classes who may not necessarily be long in those classes
(111). 4. How does prejudice develop and why is it hard to combat? Prejudice starts around age six and is partly caused by our humane tendency to organize the world into social groups according to race, gender, age ect. This tendency is difficult to combat because it is an ingrained part of our thinking process and we tend to distort information to fit our cognitive schemas allowing us to process information faster (113). 5. What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination? The difference between prejudice and discrimination is that prejudice only consists of negative beliefs and feelings. However, discrimination is the resulting action of those negative beliefs and emotions. For example, I may have negative feelings and thoughts about a certain race or people group, but I do not put those thought or feelings into action. However, if I saw a person from this group and deliberately ignored and excluded them then that action would be considered discrimination (111-112). 6. What is stereotype threat? What are some short-term and long term effects of stereotype threat? What does Woolfolk suggest for combatting stereotype threat? Do you agree or disagree with her suggestions? Why? A stereotype threat is the extra emotional and cognitive burden that your performance in an academic situation might confirm a stereotype. The short term effects of stereotype threats can be seen when a student is given a test that is meant to confirm a stereotype. For example, a math test asking students to indicate their gender on the answer sheet may be enough of a clue to cause a stereotype threat. Long term effects consist of students who adopt performance avoidance goals. This idea means that the students may become more concerned about not looking stupid and make excuses to avoid subjects that are challenging to them. For example, they may claim that math is only for nerds or that English is a girl’s subject (115-116). Woolfolk suggest that teaching students to believe that intelligence can improve may undermine the effect of stereotype threats. In addition, teaching students to see challenges as opportunities better ones self may also help reduce stereotype threats (116). I agree with Woolfolk’s suggestion because a positive perspective can make all the difference for a struggling student. As teachers we are in the perfect position to demonstrate a positive attitude and help cultivate the same attitude in our students allowing them to go farther in life than they ever imagined.
This variation has no substantial ties to skin color, but does show genetic variation from different geographical locations in the world. These variations are not categorized in groups of what people call race, but rather ethnicity. Ethnicity, defined by Stephen Cornell, is a sense of common ancestry based on cultural attachments, past linguistic heritage, religious affiliations, claimed kinship, or some physical traits. Race, as most people catoragize it, encompuses many ethnicitys. Ethnicities are local populations, this makes sense that they would tend to have less genetic variation compared to each other then the rest of the world as they would share genetic adaptations resulting from the environment they live in. This can include skin color, but can also
Minorities, African American and Latinos, in America are faced with challenges daily in white society. There are many obstacles minorities experience such as: being judged based on race, stereotyped, or worst being discriminated against by peers. Sadly, minorities can’t seem to escape to harsh realities society created. Citizens in the white society categorize humans by their race to socially construct the achievements and legitimate political goals. Minorities struggles with these goals due to the challenges they experience. The location of these challenges can occur in various places including on the job and/or at school. You may be under the impression that such challenges occurs within the adult minority groups. However, this applies to minority children as well. When the children are face with
People who have distinctive physical and cultural characteristics are a racial ethnic group. This refers to people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage. But remember that race refers to the physical characteristics with which we are born. Whereas ethnicity describes cultural characteristics that we learn.
In the article, “Ethnic Differences in Educational Attainment among the children of Canadian Immigrants,” Abada, Hou and Ram illustrate the effects that ethnicity, family structure, and parent education have on the education of immigrant youth. The authors prove the cause and effect through research, surveys, charts and tables. Using these methods, it becomes clear that things like parent educational level, discrimination, residency, and more, have a tie to immigrant youth’s educational attainment. Comparing alongside is a magazine article of the same topic, “Ethnicity Has Great Impact on Degree Grades” by David Jobbins. Touching along the same ideas, this article outlines the fact that ethnicity has more impact on educational attainment than gender, background, or type of school.
Through research of DNA samples, scientists have been able to declare that race is not biologically constructed due to the similarities between human genes. Nevertheless, in reality, people still emphasized on biological aspects such as skin color, or hair texture to categorize others into different races. This in turn, denied the true identity of race, which it is culturally constructed. Ethnicity, by definition is also culturally constructed, therefore it greatly resemble race. There is no real clear line to distinct the two.
Race and ethnicity are two words used very often in everyday speech interchangeably, thus making it seem like they mean the same thing. However, there is a significant difference between the two. According to Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein, race is “based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people” (Ferris & Stein 2012). Ethnicity on the other hand is “based on common language, religion, nationality, history, or another cultural factor” (Ferris & Stein 2012). They’re social constructs, meaning that they’re concepts/ideas created and maintained by people who agree that they exist. All society’s have a tendency to categorize and identify people based on these two socially defined categories. Doing this creates a system of classification or categorization that leads to inequality. Societal resources such as wealth, power, privilege, and opportunity are dispersed according to this system of stratification (Ferris & Stein 2012). Such powerful social constructs always influence the members of society in some way.
An ethnicity means that you belong to a group that has cultural distinctions (Kottak, 2015). An African American would fall under as an ethnic group but could also fall under as a representative for the nation and their nationality would be of the United States. This makes the three ethnicity, nation and nationality definitions similar but not necessarily the same. A majorities or minorities identity will separate them in the country but abroad they will be American and from the United States. The ancestral heritage will not disappear but will demission
Race refers to a person's physical appearance, such as skin color, eye color, hair color, bone structure, etc. Ethnicity, on the other hand, relates to cultural factors such as nationality, culture, ancestry, language and beliefs. Both race and ethnicity contribute to a person’s or group of people’s “national identity”, which is their sense of
Society is defined as people who live in a specific geographic territory, interact with one another, and share many elements of common culture. Within a society there are many components that make up that society. There is crime, culture, social class, gender, marriage and the family, religion, education, medicine and health care, the political order, etc. However, race and ethnicity has a great and powerful influence in society, and has for many years. On the reverse side, society also influences the different races and ethnicities of people. Race is defined as “a group of people who have been singled out on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics” (Curry, Jiobu, Schwirian 209). Ethnicity is defined as “common cultural characteristics
There have been a lot of controversy over the years with this particular debate, but in my opinion I think intelligence is shaped by both! Just because one family has a long line of geniuses and has a kid and expects them to be the same doesn’t mean he or she will be. Even though it does say in the book, “The significant differences in intelligence among various racial and ethnic groups, they said (Herrnstein and Murray), must in part be explained in terms of heredity.” It also says in the book, “The relationships between race and intelligence is also best explained by social rather biological causes, according to the Berkeley sociologist. All societies have oppressed ethnic groups. Low status, often coupled with discrimination and mistreatment,
I decided to write about the influence of race and ethnicity on a person’s educational level. I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic where, within my social group, schooling and education was deemed as an essential part of life. In the United States, however, there exist a greater number of racial and ethnic groups, and it is evident that an achievement gap exists among these groups. Here, Dominicans are marginalized as part of a Hispanic minority group that does not achieve the educational status of other groups, such as Whites or Jewish. I chose to write about the disparity of education within races and seek to answer how race affects a person’s educational level.
Ethnicity is generally used to refer to diverse and unequal skill of social groups with specific culture. Diverse languages, religions and attire assist to group different ethnicities. These ethnic groups develop because of history and social experiences. Ethnic group tend to hold a culture bond. People can relate to other essentially their parents when concerning ethnic beliefs and customs.
Racism and ethnicity continue to affect the sector of education in most parts of the world. More often, it influences adults and children’s experiences in education at all levels and in various ways. These include professional employment, academic performance, parental involvement, social interactions, assessment issues, and curriculum development. Certainly, the terms racism and ethnicity identify as problematic and arise socially. Therefore, many people fail to recognize that racism is a perception about the color of the skin and traditions of a particular group of people. Racism and ethnicity exist in quite blatant and subtle forms. As such, racism and ethnicity usually lead to negative consequences for the group that does not belong to the dominant culture. The contemporary racism originated from various avenues, one of it being the society norms and upbringing. Indeed, as children grow, they exclusively rely on their parents or guardians to learn new things. Moreover, part of the upbringing involves teaching the children things about the society and the
Poverty has a great influence on school achievement. Students have less time to devote to school work, limited means and possibility to have their own space at home to concentrate on school work and less support from their families. They might not be able to get funds for school activities and access to libraries and scholar materials might be limited. Also Health issues or even youth employment might hinder their possibilities.
It is really amazing things happening if the students not classify according the race and at this moments these students will focus in their education and they can learn, achieve and feel empowered.We need to believe in our students and gave them the space which they can learn and grow with our help. To fight foolishness according to Delpit”We have to cease attempting to build teacher-proof schools with scripted low-level instructions and instead develop and retain perceptive, thinking teachers who challenge their students with high- quality, interactive, and thoughtful instruction.”(Delpit, 2012, pp. 34) . We need to stop the foolishness and believe that all of our students can learn, grow and achieve.If we set high expectations, our students will meet these high