"Ethnic: The Culture Sub-Group"
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas
Is it a place? or beliefs? Is it the place where our beliefs originated from, or the place where our beliefs are taking place? Defining ethnicity is complex, but it is worth defining, for it is an important part of us. Of how we define ourselves, how we identify ourselves, and how we accept to be identified, or defined as. Geographically we have defined areas like Africa, Asia, Europe, and The Americas, and politically we have defined countries like Kenya, China, Germany, and The United States of America, where there are ethnic groups, and cultural groups, who will adhere to a place, or beliefs, or a place where beliefs originated from.
In the State of California, in the United States of America, the major ethnic groups are: African-American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, and White. These are the major groups, and do not represent all ethnic groups in the state. Each of these four major groups has been defined based on geographical, cultural, and ethnic characteristics that individuals in each group believe best identify them ethnically. Once students have been identified by ethnic group, academic achievement can be measured, and differences in performance can be analyzed. The overall purpose of using ethnicity as a tool for measuring academic performance should be to obtain equality in education, not to establish academic superiority.
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