Why do students from minority communities find it difficult to succeed ? (This can apply to students from poor back-grounds in India)
- Being able to dream without role models. believing that you can achieve it.
- Negative peer pressure when you stand out with good grades - "you are being white "
- Negative results can have bigger impact on a student from minority community because she has not seen someone get back from such kinds of failures. The fear that the stereotypes held in the majority society is true, can paralyze them, causing them to drop out of college.
- Studying with students of the same race as you. Needing a comfort zone.
Other Notes :
Freeman Hrabowski - UMBC
Meyerhoff program
Impacts :
- Latino communities considered minorities now will pervade society in this country in the next couple of generations.
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