Providing you race for the census categorizes you into a group decided only by your skin color. People with similar skin color do not necessarily mean that they are from the same ethnic background, country, speak the same language or hold the same beliefs. People with the same skin color still have diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds and Berger adds “dark-skinned people whose ancestors were not African share neither culture nor ethnicity with Africans”. Because there is such diversity in the United States and different ethnicities living here, people are more likely to come from mixed ancestry. The US Census would like to know the makeup of the United States but by asking people to pick a race they may fall into, publishes inaccurate
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The adopted children may be a different ethnic group and culture from their adopted parents, however, the culture they assume will be that of their adopted parents. Cultures are inherently different. Children often assimilate to the values of the cultures they learn from, examples from the text include that Ecuadorian children are taught to converse less, Westerners more so, Asian families are disinclined to be prideful, and Ugandan mothers massage rather than kiss their infants. These are examples of cultural differences that will influence the way a child is raised. The environment in which children are reared is more important relative to race, ethnicity or social class. Environment makes a person who they are because as Berger states, “Nurture refers to environmental influences, beginning with the health and diet of the embryo’s mother and continuing lifelong, including family, school, community, and societal experiences. Additionally the text explains, Vygotsky’s concept of guided participation and how it supports that cultures help to form learners by using “parents, teachers, and entire societies to teach novices the skills and habits expected within their culture”. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory states that humans develop because of their “surrounding society” or how they’re nurtured. In a study on page 188, Culture is even to explain for gender differences and how boys who were more reserved as infants ended up being more anxious and used drugs to become less so. The opposite was shown true for girls; the girls that were reserved infants were less likely to do drugs as teens because they were accepting of their
The adopted children may be a different ethnic group and culture from their adopted parents, however, the culture they assume will be that of their adopted parents. Cultures are inherently different. Children often assimilate to the values of the cultures they learn from, examples from the text include that Ecuadorian children are taught to converse less, Westerners more so, Asian families are disinclined to be prideful, and Ugandan mothers massage rather than kiss their infants. These are examples of cultural differences that will influence the way a child is raised. The environment in which children are reared is more important relative to race, ethnicity or social class. Environment makes a person who they are because as Berger states, “Nurture refers to environmental influences, beginning with the health and diet of the embryo’s mother and continuing lifelong, including family, school, community, and societal experiences. Additionally the text explains, Vygotsky’s concept of guided participation and how it supports that cultures help to form learners by using “parents, teachers, and entire societies to teach novices the skills and habits expected within their culture”. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory states that humans develop because of their “surrounding society” or how they’re nurtured. In a study on page 188, Culture is even to explain for gender differences and how boys who were more reserved as infants ended up being more anxious and used drugs to become less so. The opposite was shown true for girls; the girls that were reserved infants were less likely to do drugs as teens because they were accepting of their