Race and Education
Appreciation of the value of an education, upholding high family values and morals, and displaying the physical characteristics is associated with the European culture. Upper class values are viewed as adopting the European culture, which is also known as acting white. An African-American dressed in business attire, and holding a white-collar job is considered to have adopted the European culture values. High achievement is expected among the western culture. Identifying white collar African-Americans as Eurocentric is racism, because it diminishes the importance of the tradition among the black culture. White collar, well-educated African-Americans should not be identified as adopting the Eurocentric lifestyle, because it would eliminate much of the prejudiceness, and high achiever's accomplishments and capabilities would not be predetermined by their race.
The western culture will always be considered as the highest social status of all cultures. This belief and tradition has developed through history and will be here for a very long time. High social standards and behaviors are sent down form the western culture. The purpose of eliminating racist Eurocentric attitudes is not to diminish the history of the values sent down from the western culture, but instead to wipe out racism.
The minority child has to prove their capabilities of achievements, because the educators are following the statistics when assumptions of the child's abilities are made by their race along. Western cultures are associated with the value of an education, where as African-Americans are associated with putting low importance on the value of an education. Because of these, assumptions, the African-American child already has barriers placed in front of their success. White students are going to be corrected for using slang terms, where as the educator may feel that correcting the African-American student for using slang is discriminatory. During job interviews and formal social gatherings adults are expected to know the proper English. Proper English is not automatically developed, it is taught. If the African-American child is not taught the proper English, although the slang terms are used in the child's home, then he or she will not know how to use the proper English vocabulary. An adult who did not learn the proper English, will be considered uneducated and will case barriers to success and upper social status.
In the history of the western culture, colonies merged together, the British colonies considered the highest of the socioeconomic class. The expectations of their abilities were predetermined by the social status of the colony they derived form. The western culture found ways to take responsibility for their own success and acceptance. Western cultures derivatives of the lower class colonies, which were judged by of capitalism development, removed these obstacles.
Capitalist development has produced the automatic assumption of the African-American children. Highly expected standards of the western culture are passed down through traditions of expected behavior. Obstacles that involved capitalism, or presumptions, which were passed down to the western culture from previous, cultures, where removed successfully by the Europeans. The outstanding beliefs of the western culture that is recognized today, has developed by their removal of the barriers of their success caused by predetermination of achievements.
All of the colonies of the western culture decided their accomplishments were not going to be predetermined by their background. Today, for high achieving African-Americans to stop being considered as acting white, or behaving in the way of the western culture is taking responsibility for their own success. The values that individuals carry are not dependent on their race. Today, there are many well educated, high-status African-Americans, and their accomplishments needs to be recognized as the black race, working hard for their deserved accomplishments, and not related to any other race.
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