Black college students at predominantly white campuses feel internal cultural tension

The Oklahoman ^ | 7/21/13 | Silas Allen

[T-Bird45]

Pancakes today were blueberry...thought the bunny was strictly a plain pancake...LOL!!

[Rebelbase]

Thanks.

[FutureRocketMan]

This is the problem with European style collectivism. We are each individuals firstly. Forget about what “group” you are from or the black “culture.” You’re an American citizen, period. Let it go.

It also seems like the problem lies within black families, rather than at the predominantly white universities. The only way that’s going to change is if more black youth are motivated to do well in school, instead of succumbing to the norm of black youth which is to do poorly, because education doesn’t matter, so they think.

[freeangel]

“Lee, an African American Studies major at OU, said he notices that difference when he returns to Texas and talks to family and neighbors in the neighborhood where he grew up. Family and friends treat him with greater privilege, he said. He’s also more aware of the poverty and drug use in the neighborhood than he was while he was growing up, he said. “

And this is bad, how? Oh, yeah, drug use and poverty ARE part of the culture he is loathe to give up because success and not using drugs are part of white culture?

[The Duke]

Maybe if the college just renamed their cheeleader squad to “The Whos and Bitches” then this young man might feel more “at home”?

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

According to a recent study published in the National Communication Association's journal, Communication Education, black students at predominantly white universities still often struggle to assimilate themselves into a culture they see as different from their own.

When black people point out that there are cultural differences that lead to tension, the statement is accepted and it's suggested that white people must change or be more accomodating. When white people point out that cultural differences lead to tension it's racist, and once again it's white people who must change.

[goodnesswins]

Sounds like the PROPAGANDA Factory schooled him well....lucky we GERMANS didn’t feel the same way, or America would likely be speaking German....sheesh....

[goodnesswins]

And, FURTHERMORE, my German Great Grandmother required we STAND UP in front of the TV whenever the National Anthem played....and did not speak German to us (although I wish she had...)

[stanne]

Oh, we know that.

We just saw Reagan on Johnny Carson, having a thoughtful conversation. TCM is running tapes of these interviews this month.

The kids were amazed at his articulateness and especially the contrast of his conversational speech compared with BO.

It’s where the question arose.

[Dallas59]

I have found that when speaking to upper management, warehouse talk is a no-no. Talking with the guys on the dock is one thing, but being able to make the switch in communication is a position buster.

[anton]

There is no limit to the number of and outlandishness of excuses that blacks can muster to explain away their own problems. These ungrateful bastards don’t stop to think that white European Americans gave a half million lives so that the government would not have to pay to free the slaves like they did in England and elsewhere, nor that their ancestors in West Africa are still killing each other right and left.

They should stop their whining, get out the books, get a job and STFUp.

[rabidralph]

That is a great analogy! I suppose it’s the conflict of “everything you were taught growing up was wrong.” It’s a shame that blacks have been allowed to believe that their culture is supposed to be illiterate and unsuccesful.

[IbJensen]

What culture?

Why a polite one of course.

[Steve_Seattle]

"He felt like he was being asked to trade part of his “blackness” for the values and characteristics of the dominant white culture on campus."

I went to college, and I think that many college students of whatever race are somewhat intimidated by the college atmosphere. Particularly on large, public campuses, you can feel isolated and estranged from your environment, especially if you are away from home for the first time. Also there is the stress that you are - in a sense - competing with your co-students, and there is pressure to do well in this somewhat rarified atmosphere of "the best and the brightest" (so-called, that is).

Also, if you are a Christian, you can find your values and beliefs explicitly challenged and even mocked. You can get a sense that open expression of those values might even get you into conflict with professors or university officials.

[Steve_Seattle]

One other thing I forgot to mention is that for conservative students, the left-wing atmosphere of most campuses can be a real shock, every bit as much as coming from the Hood, and that conservatives can feel pressured to keep their mouths shut about their real beliefs when they are subjected to indoctrination by left-wing professors.

[Zionist Conspirator]

But when he arrived at OU, he said, he felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture.

You mean like white Southerners have had to do since the Civil War?

My heart bleeds.

[Feckless]

He felt like he was being asked to trade part of his “blackness” for the values and characteristics of the dominant white culture on campus

Yeah, who knows what speaking English, having manners, and respect for authority might lead to..... a job! Heaven forbid.

[dfwgator]

Imagine how a white person at a black college must feel.

[dfwgator]

What predominantly “white” campuses, heck nowadays most campuses are full of foreign students and teachers.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

But when he arrived at OU, he said, he felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture.

That's the entire idea of going to college, to learn from a higher class of people.

Unless we are going be PC and say that thug culture is just as good as any other culture.