Cultural Segregation Factors in Education

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Brandon R. Jones Eng. 104 Prof. Kute September 18, 2012 Cultural Segregation Factors in Education (Draft #1) America’s youth face many challenges in their path to education. Many factors include, Racial Identity, Lies told to them about history, and the American Educational Apartheid they are faced with. This essay will review these three main areas and how they are affecting America’s youth in the educational system. Youth of today have a hard time finding their place not only in life, also among other youth in their culture. The feeling of being accepted by family and friends is held to the highest standard in their minds. With their major social areas being school, shopping malls, and sporting events, the acceptance by their own race is what they yearn. Most groups find themselves flocking together because of the neighborhoods in which they were raised. African Americans, Hispanics, and whites will most often find themselves together. Sub consciously we tend to flow to our own conceived accepted groups socially. In an essay about “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum. She gives an example of this Psychological issue with “Walk into any racially mixed high school cafeteria at lunch time and you will instantly notice that in the sea of adolescent faces, there is an identifiable group of Black students sitting together”. [Source]. The question is asked by many groups who have encountered this issue is, How does this happen? The answer is, all youth want to be accepted by their peer groups. More then often they flock together because they have grown up together. Never branching out and experiencing new ethnicity, cultural norms and values, other then their own. Also, following the subconscious queues they have learned and taken on from mothers, fathers and other family norms learned at a

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