Race and Ethnicity!!!!!!

I know so many high school drop outs, and funny how, most of them are my age or younger, and they were in the same position like me as a school student, and now I’m almost with a associate college degree where as there doing nothing with their life, just working minimum wage jobs, I mean don’t get me wrong, I work too, but its not like I’m going to work there forever. I feel sorry for them sometimes, but sometimes I wish I could do something to help them, because they could have had a bright future, or still have a future if they still start going to school again. Sometimes it’s the race that affects all this.

Reading the article “The Hispanic Dropout Mystery” I knew high school dropout rate went up  from the past years, and its also dvided into race.This article talks about how the dropout rate for Hispanics is 30 percent. This percentage is nearly 3 times the rate for whites and twice therate Blacks. Why are these numbers so high?

These students all have a lot of reasons most of them are personal reasons and or family problems, many of them which can apply to students from all different ethnic backgrounds; they are failing, they are bored, peer pressure, they get disrespected, or they are working to support their family. Other people just blame it on the students themselves. The article says "One third of Hispanic children live in poverty, and like many inner-city children, they start school at a substantial disadvantage: They rarely attend preschool, and their parents, often ill-educated or illiterate, don’t read to them." I think someone needs to show them step-by-step raising children. There is a stereotype (generalizations about categories of people that do not acknowledge individual variation) about Asian and South Asian students that say that they are all very smart, just because some are smart, doesn’t mean all of us are smart.. and sometimes, its because parents pushes hard so they can do something good in the future. Although that is how most of the parents are, some parents just can't do much for their kids education wise because of poverty. This is a way that the Hispanic parents talked about in the article are related to many South Asian/Asian parents.

What can be done? i think people should talk to all these people and show them how their future would be like without education. I feel like we need to try harder to convince them, because they might be just dealing with hard problems and family issues, and someone needs to show them there’s still hope.

What’s really different between all of us? The video “The between us”  talks about how yes, we are all different by color of our skin, eyes, hair, how we are figured and etc. And many years ago we were divided in 5 different races, but now it has expanded. We created different race in the world but really, there is no genetic difference between different ethnic groups. In the video it shows Africans American are athletes, but is that true? No because anyone can be good at something if they try, its not only one person is better at something, someone always has to try hard to get whatever they want. This relates to the article I read because its like the drop outs, if they tried hard enough, and do what they can, they can still go somewhere in life.