Misconceptions In Language And Language

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There are many different types of race, religion, and languages all over the world. People tend to grab the first type of information they find and tag that person(s) with it making them a target. They do not know the person but have an idea about how they might be regardless if they know the information it factual or not. People retain this information through language. They interpret a misconception since they believe the information retained is true. Misconceptions about others can be hurtful and mean. Many times children and teens who target others for their race, religion, or language gather this information from school, parents, friends, and the news. Schools from all over teach children about different types of race, religions, and languages, regardless if it is social studies, science, or english; all subjects have a relation to different people all over the world. Children are constantly learning about the negative parts of the world where there is terrorism, wars, holocaust or where one religion is bad. Teachers and textbooks are teaching these children and teens misconceptions about people and parts of the world. Students tell their parents or friends about what they learned in that class, creating a chain …show more content…

Parts of the world that were once poor may not be poor anymore; schools continue to teach this false information. For example Chimamanda Adichie, an African American woman, went to college in the United States. Her roommate had a misconception thinking Africa was a very poor ran down country. She felt pity for them and did not understand how Adichie knew English and also not from a poor area (Adichie). People are impacted by what they read and learn; schools teach about the poor parts of countries and not about the wealthy side, where the people in other countries live just like people in the United States, causing students to have inaccurate

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