How To Stop The Black Student Stereotype
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When we see a person who has a different shape of eyes, hair, clothes or behavior, possibly weÐŽ¦ll define that person as to what kind of individual he/she is or his job, that is by stereotypes. Stereotypes hiding in our mind all the time but people donÐŽ¦t know where of that. We have to stop this behavior to let all the people to have the same opportunity to bring into their full play. According to many of my experiments in the U.S. College and University education system, Black college students are negatively stereotyped and their academic performance will have school results that are much poorer than average white students.
In China, most people think that if you donÐŽ¦t have a lot of money and great clothes, you canÐŽ¦t have dinner in a foreign restaurant. One day in China when I was having a dinner with my friends in the foreign restaurant, a ten-year-old child came in and dressed normally. When the waiter had seen him, he just thought that he was a child who wanted to ask for some superfluous food. The waiter was going to lead the boy out before he said anything. When they went back to the door, a man came in and told him that this was his son and they wanted a table for two. The man was only wearing a T-shirt and a pair of trousers, but there was no policy that said they couldnÐŽ¦t be customers. Same kind of stereotypes are still happening around the world every day.
China is a third world country, but most of Chinese learned how to use the computer and not the kung fu. I remember that the first time when I told the counselor that my major was computer engineering, she touch me that I have to take the class of Introduction Of Computer. But she looked very surprised when I told her that I know how to used Excel, Word, Basic and C Programming; she said,ÐŽÐ I only know that Chinese kung fu is a part of education in China, still have so much computer class?ÐŽÐ Why nobody thinks about that it would be very dangerous if all the people know kung fu in a country?
Most people believe that Oakland is a dangerous city because there is a high population of blacks. When the time I still was a college student, my car battery died and I was parking on a dim street one night. Once I woke up, I saw two black men were walking toward to me. I kept highly alert and got back in my car. Suddenly, one of them knocked on my window and asked me if my car was out of power because he saw than the lights wasnÐŽ¦t turned off before. The man helped me by using a charging machine helped me to ignite the engine. As a result, they told me that they were the mechanical students at Laney College, and they helped me because they saw the Laney parking permit in my car.
Little children wouldnÐŽ¦t go to foreign restaurant, the Chinese only know kung fu and not the computer, black people are bad people ÐŽKÐŽK all the stereotypes make the people disdain someone else or make mistake. People are not easy to resist stereotypes; the only way is know some body deeper before to make a stereotype. In the U.S. we can see so many different culture and we canÐŽ¦t stop to make a stereotype of them, specially the Black students.
“Stereotype threat” comes into play when a student whose race, culture or gender is associated with negative stereotypes, such as intellectual inferiority. Students feel stereotype threat in an academic setting heavily populated by peers and teachers who are likely to perceive individuals as representing the stereotype. Even though the students may be highly prepared, the anxiety they could experience from worrying whether their peers and teachers believe the stereotypes are distressful enough to lower the performance. Many of them give up studying hard or putting in an effort, because they believe that no matter how hard they study, their results will be just worse than the whites. There may be some extreme opposition. Some Black students may work extremely hard to disprove these stereotypes and show their ability. Their attitude is good. Yet, the huge pressure they have can pull them back.
Educational differences among disadvantaged minority children and other children show quite early, as early as second and third grade, and that persists throughout the school years. Black, Hispanic, and Latino youth form the largest portion of students who drop out of high school. As an effect, many are forced to enter dead-end and low-paying