Their morale is likely to be lower than that of more superficially ‘oppressed’ groups and their family life more chaoticThere has been another report – this time from the Sutton Trust – showing that white working-class children are underperforming in schools. This is a long-established tendency. Nearly all ethnic minority groups execute better. This includes black African,Chinese and Bangladeshi children.
We are in a tricky area here – where race meets culture. Biology makes it plain that there are no differences in traits between races. However, races can be associated with cultures – and there are rough personality variations between cultures, or whether ethnically related or not. Parisians and Boers,white Americans and Native Americans, Saudi Arabians and Israelis – all are liable to gain their own separate collective views of and assumptions approximately the world. These are not binding, and but they constitute what you might call mass tendencies. And as if this were not complicated enough,we gain to throw class into the mix.
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Source: theguardian.com