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Inequality In Whistling Vivaldi, By Claude M. Steele

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People’s thoughts on inequality are that it does not exist, they are somewhere true, but not completely, inequality does exist. School will be the one of the most certain place for inequality to exist from many places. Indeed, it is a matter of fact that for students from a different country or race faces inequality in the United States. Even so, those students are the citizens of the United States or international students it will not be a matter for the people who does not want to treat people equitably. This will be stimulating for students to be at school to acquire education. The articles, “The complexity of Identity: ‘Who Am I?’,” “Schools, Prisons, and Social Implications of Punishments,” and “Whistling Vivaldi” are the example of how …show more content…

In other words, they are forced to think themselves as minorities. In “Whistling Vivaldi,” by Claude M. Steele he talks about him realizing that he was not equal to others. “I have a memory of the first time I realized I was black. It was when, at seven or eight, I was walking home from school… I learned that we ‘black’ kids couldn’t swim at the pool in our area park, except on Wednesday afternoon.” After this, whichever place he uses to go he always felt that he is different. Even in college, after he became a professor, he always used to keep in mind that his life was shaped, and restricted. After few years he got an offer from a different university to teach psychology and also teaching minority students. Looking at the number of minority students he accepted the offer. After accepting the offer, he started to investigate the reason for having those minority students in a tremendous number. The results were not according to his prediction. According to Steele, “They had been successful in high school… They talked about university environment. They talked about being a small minority. They described needing a space where they weren’t made so aware of being a minority… They described how social life was organized by race, ethnicity, social class.” In other word, they were not unsuccessful from high school, they became unsuccessful after being treated like that they were minorities according to their race, ethnicity and their social class. Society should change their opinion about students from different race, ethnicity, gender, background, and social class. Instead making them aware that they are minorities, try to help in their

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