Posted on 03/16/2012 11:50:05 AM PDT by lbryce
I understand that middle easterners are considered caucasian in the strict anthropological sense, but its obvious thats not the context the writer uses here - he's clearly referring to 'white' people in the 'community activist' sense.
http://educationnext.org/actingwhite/
Exceedingly interesting link - I pull a quote from the scholarly report:That acting white is more prevalent in schools with more interethnic contact hardly passes the test of political correctness. It nonetheless provides a clue to what is going on. Anthropologists have long observed that social groups seek to preserve their identity, an activity that accelerates when threats to internal cohesion intensify. Within a group, the more successful individuals can be expected to enhance the power and cohesion of the group as long as their loyalty is not in question. But if the group risks losing its most successful members to outsiders, then the group will seek to prevent the outflow. Cohesive yet threatened groups—the Amish, for example—are known for limiting their children’s education for fear that too much contact with the outside world risks the community’s survival.In an achievement-based society where two groups, for historical reasons, achieve at noticeably different levels, the group with lower achievement levels is at risk of losing its most successful members, especially in situations where successful individuals have opportunities to establish contacts with outsiders. Over the long run, the group faces the danger that its most successful members will no longer identify with its interests, and group identity will itself erode. To forestall such erosion, groups may try to reinforce their identity by penalizing members for differentiating themselves from the group. The penalties are likely to increase whenever the threats to group cohesion intensify.
Applying this model of behavior to minority and white students yields two important predictions: A positive relationship between academic achievement and peer-group acceptance (popularity) will erode and turn negative, whenever the group as a whole has lower levels of achievement. And that erosion will be exacerbated in contexts that foster more interethnic contact. This, of course, is exactly what I found with regard to acting white.
Understanding acting white in this way places the concept within a broader conceptual framework that transcends specific cultural contexts and lifts the topic beyond pointless ideological exchanges. There is necessarily a trade-off between doing well and rejection by your peers when you come from a traditionally low-achieving group, especially when that group comes into contact with more outsiders.
This one comes up periodically in one form or another. I remember when I was in college on my CSC major there was a big discussion going on in the industry trying to figure out why there were so few black people on any side of the equation, using software, making software, studying software. It ain’t racist but it is a mystery.
You got that right. Working in this industry I know it first hand.
Just hire the most qualified blacks available to design and assemble the next iphone and ipad for sale only to the black community.
Just put the NIKE logo on them.
Everybody happy?
Why argue about it?
Words are cheap.
Since 2004, Obama and the cabinet of "his people" have done everything to empower the pathologic culture, stoke the fires of race war and continue the utter failure of blacks in education.
There is much more where this came from. I used to be very connected with education policy, but it got to be just so damn depressing. The solutions are actually quite simple: small (I mean really, really small) schools in neighborhoods where the cohesion can be maintained and there is no chance for this “group” thing. It’s possible, but the unions wouldn’t like it.
So what? They don’t want to put in the effort and sacrifice it takes to educate themselves to get these jobs. So do a lot of whites and every other race. Most people don’t train themselves to be able to do a job that is highly technical.
When will I see a piece from the MSM lamenting there is way, way, way too few whites in professional football and basketball? Given the demographics there should be 70 percent white players. Obviously the NFL and NBA are raciat towards whites, by libtard logic.
The “community activist sense” is illegitimate and should never be allowed to pass. It is simply an effort to drive wedges between people so that the “activists” can use them to extort unearned jobs and free stuff.
Lots of people, including many middle class Blacks, have exactly that opportunity. Why do you suppose it isn't happening?
There has been psych research into cognitive styles that indicates, at most 15% of the population is suited for fields like engineering. Just the way it is. People suited to become engineers have a talent that most of us don't have. Add to that the obstacles to entry that Blacks face because of cultural factors, and it is not surprising that they are rare in the fields of technology.
Neighborhoods were as robust, even if lower income, and crime was relatively low. The destruction of the black community began with the welfare state in the late fifties and early sixties, when the state began to supplant the father.
Communities were destroyed by city democrat machines who used "slum clearance" as an excuse to make real estate available to their financiers. "Projects" were built in place of functioning social milieux.
Jobs fled because cities made outlying land financially atttractive, and with the disappearance of jobs the social networks deteriorated even further as a result. It had nothing really to do with the remote history of slavery, which in any case never obtained in the big industrial cities to begin with.
The "sea change" needed is the destruction of the racist victimology perpetrated by the race pimps since the late 60's, who have grown fat and sleek at the expense of the Black community's future generation..
I give up! Just hand every minority a piece of paper saying he or she can be whatever he wants. No education, no effort, no ability required. It’s easier than the dog and pony show we’re putting on now.
It really isn’t but pointing out the obvious will get you labelled a racist hate mongering bigot. The truth is very few blacks can handle the math and those who can aren’t interested.
It’s got nothing to do with math. I’ve been in the industry for almost 20 years and I barely use any math at all, even when I was working on accounting software. It’s a basic interest level, they aren’t interested in the industry on much of any level.
Yeah, ok. 100% of them could do it if only they were interested. You keep believing that.
There isn’t any group where 100% of them can do anything so even throwing that phrase out there shows you’ve got issues. But that doesn’t change the simple fact that your “math” theory is full of crap. You don’t need to be good at math to work in the software industry, your average software worker uses math beyond pre-algebra exactly zero times a day. And you miss the whole interest factor, black just aren’t in the nerd culture on any level. Software stores, comic book stores, sci-fi conventions, they’re just not there. That’s the big quandary of the industry.
“100% of them could do it if only they were interested. You keep believing that”
It was obvious sarcasm. Well, not obvious to you. Speaking of issues, I suspect you are completely blinded by political correctness. How IS that hopey-changy thing working out?
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