DO YOU EVER ASK THE POPULATION IS IT TRUE??
YES, ASK THE GROUP, TALK TO THEM, LEARN FROM THEM!!!!!!!!
Can we get past the social stigmatization of our society?? Can we open up our eyes and see what is happening? It does all stem from a psychological root, how do we change this? Blacks having antiolutions about whites, whites having antiolutions on blacks. Can we think outside of the box please? LEARN about a culture rather than judge.
Do you want to know what is really like to like in poor area What is Black culture and how is different from white culture? Go spend the day in that area and observe.
Listen to peoples conversations, empathize with what they have to go through in their environment, and see how difficult it is to push on from crime/violence/poverty etc.
It is self-fulfilling negativism and it creates the attitude that one’s own efforts mean nothing and that one’s race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnic identity is an insurmountable barrier to ACHIEVEMENT. Our stigmatized society asks,"Why don’t they get a job, why don’t “they” just go to college? “
Learned helplessness, self-fulfilling negativism, little positive reinforcement from parents, not having role-models to identify with, not having positive, uplifting, motivating resources for CHANGE within in their community.
They are denied the RESPECT, ACKNOWaaaaaaaaaaLEDGMENT, and CREDIT that they deserve so they fall victim. “It is the denial of the need that causes most damage to individual members of minority groups.”(Hetrick, p.28). Disrespect from one minority group to another to the white group.
Yes, there are those individuals that push on from their environment and do not let the oppression and negativity within their environment take over, but for others it so hard to get up in the morning and say “Yes, I can when you hear gun shots at your front door, when you are in a gang because you long for a sense of belonging and a common identity, when you don’t receive child support from your husband, when your children are taken away and you dedicate all your time to getting them back when you suffer from addiction to a substance and spend your days trying to figure out how to get it, when you are mentally ill and you skip out on taking your medication because you don’t have health insurance or you don’t have the motivation to make the commitment to take it everyday. There are stereotypes that go BOTH ways between white people and people of color, especially African-Americans. I recently questioned why aren’t their any white foster parents? Answer: Because they were burned so many times by the African-American parents that they just gave up. This is important key in and see what is going on here. Please remember I am not talking about ALL of the population.
Most African-American parents do not want their children to be raised into a White culture. They want their Black culture to be prevalent in their child’s life. STIGMA against how whites raise their children rather than learning from each other to create
GROWTH AND INTEGRATION OF PARENTING SKILLS.
We can learn from each other, especially with parenting. Black culture may believe in discipline and punishment, but this have psychological implications on the child.
White parents may be too lenient and allow their children to get away with too much. We can learn from each other if we can just overcome this stigma coming from both sides
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Priscilla C. Raj
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