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  1. Oct 2025
    1. Social science research indicates that children are not born with racist interpre-tations or proclivities but learn racial interpretations and racial framing of the

      I totally agree with this. Many people started to discriminate others based on their environment for friends that they make with. Because of the fact that you are immersed in an environment with lots of hatred to another race, it is barely possible for you not to discriminate that same race. Also, children stepped into their youth, they might get in many different new things such as smoking or vaping, and they think that copying others behavior might make themselves look cool. And I guess copying other people to discriminate another group of people also makes certain people feel like it’s a cool behavior. Hence, the problem lies with how to hinder children from copying inappropriate behaviors at their youth. And my answer to that question is school should educate them in advance by telling them what is wrong and what is right.

    2. In the public mind Asian Americans are often synonymous with academic excellence, in part because their group scores on standardized tests and their college enrollment levels often exceed those of other groups, often including whites.

      Speaking of standardized test, it is definitely most of the Chinese students strength. However, I would like to share phenomenon I see in my high school. I attended the top tier international school back in China, so most of the kids are very smart and hard-working. Therefore, many of the students who are in our school achieved a 1550+ SAT standardized score. For those that usually perform academic excellence in school subject, people would not doubt the authenticity of their score. However, for those who did not perform that well on school subjects, but did perform very well on the standardized testing would be doubted. When I was in the bathroom, I heard people saying a person must have been cheated on SAT because she is not good at school subjects, and that Asians are prone to be cheating. The point I want to make here is that there are rumors saying Asians love cheating, but this is not true, because it depends on individual‘s values. When I hear people of my same race targeted at our own race and play around with the typical stereotype as a joke, I got very angry. This is the same case as for many Black people. I watched a movie regarding slavery, and a line in the movie that stand out the most to me is “ we as the blacks must stop using the N word ourselves before anyone else start to respect us”. This should applies to all different races of people in order to win other peoples respect