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Originally posted by bethany1982
If there are indeed societal issues designed by whites to hold back certain races, why don't these same designers hold back all minorities?
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Because not every racial group has had the same experiences in American history. American slavery was limited, for the most part, to blacks. American Indians had to deal with relocation and the fact that, with reservations, they are held to different laws and standards than other Americans. Japanese-Americans had the concentration camps. Many times the races clustered in certain parts of the country when they first imigrated, due to choice or necessity (blacks in the South, Asians on the west coast, Hispanics in the Southwest) and the waves of immigration came at different time periods (the biggest wave of Hispanics has been relatively recently, as opposed to the biggest influx of blacks during slaver). All of this leads to racism and thus to culture developing in different ways. And all groups bring a mix of cultures from their previous homes that add to the differences too.
If Asian-Americans are stereotyped as being "good at school" and African-Americans stereotyped as being "good at sports," these can become self-fulfilling prophesies.