One identity I’m most proud of is being African. It is something I am most most proud of because when I was young I was Learning more about my culture in terms of which country in Africa my parents from, asking them what it’s like in Africa, and eating different types of African foods.
After reading the article “The Potential and Promise of Latino Students”, I learned that the Latino group falls behind White and Asian students in academic achievement. This was shocking to me because I didn’t notice that they were far behind their peers and another reason for that was because some of them didn’t attend preschool.
The argument of the video “What Being Hispanic and Latinx Means in the United States” was that Latinos make up 18% of the U.S population and it makes the largest minority group in the U.S. The Latino women in that video also mentioned that Latinos play an important role in our country and talked about how we should learn about the Latino and Hispanic experience in the U.S. She also talked about how Latino and Hispanic is an ethnicity and they can identify as any race.
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It must be interesting finding out about your own history and culture through your parents’ experiences. I’m curious what country they are from and what they have said about growing up. Do you have a favorite meal?
I also had not heard about preschool being less popular in the Latino community.
I think you pointed out an important point that was made in the video that people have more than one identity, but society often tries to figure out what represents them and it’s a problem.
I can relate to your experience of trying different types of food, as a Latino I have tried many dishes from different Spanish-speaking countries, and I’m always amazed of how unique each dish is. I’m startled at the fact that Latinos are the largest minority group in the US and fall behind in academic achievements. I thought that the academic achievement of each minority group was close to the total amount of people that are part of their respective groups.