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This mindset (education = selling out or losing touch) is really a combination of a lot of factors - I don't think there is one or two causes, but I do think there are some HUGE influences into this mindset.
One of those influences has to do with the importance of athletics (or a rapper) over education as the only means to be successful or as a way to a better life. It is also these same athletes that are used as "realistic" role models in our community.
Another factor is the fact that unlike our parents time, successful and educated people that look like us primarily do not live in our neighborhoods anymore. So even if you parents did not attend college (or maybe didn't believe in higher education) you were still able to see and interact with those that did.
I think this lack of faces that look like you in addition to only seeing faces that do not look like you does affect you.
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Last edited by Honeykiss1974; 01-25-2007 at 07:04 PM.
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