Students of Color in United States
Students of Color in United States
Introduction
This paper discusses the historical
reason for students of color studying in the United State, sources of income
for student of color, diversity challenges facing foreign students, educational
preferences and bias facing minority students.
The concept of student
of color is a methodology that defines the purpose students of color in the
United States.
The Historical Reason for students
of color studying in the United State
The determination of students color to
get best education and be able to compete in the global market drives
the students of color to study in the United States. Many of the foreign
students come to the United States to learn new technology and skills that will
make them self sufficient for future challenges.
The Historical Reason for students
of color studying in United State
Students are coming from countries in
Africa, Asia and South America to search for greener pasture in the United
States. After the completion of their education, some of the students of color
may decide to apply for permanent residence or alien in the United State that
will give them right to live and work permanently in the United States.
Sources of income for students of
color
The students of color get their
funding from various sources such as their hope country parents, financial aid
from government and private organization. Many of the foreign students get
necessary skills to help them integrate into American community and a job.
Anonymous(1972) stated that the program provides custom- tailored programs to
enable foreign executives, trainees, and professionals in philadephis to
improve their English language skills, while they live in an intercultural
environment and engage in cross-cultural experience (p. 25). The necessity to
get job is to get educated in the colleges in the United States and that will
help students of color to learn basic English language
Diversity challenges facing foreign
students in the United States
Education overcome problem of
cultural differences in the United States because many students from different
countries around the world come together to learn in the same classroom and
share ideas on different subjects. Clark et al (2004) stated that it is
necessary to provide students structured opportunities to apply the
philosophies of service-learning, civic engagement, and democratic citizenship
they learn in the classroom context to effect social changes in the larger society
(p.57). The benefit of diversity in college campus will help students of color
to integrate effectively in the workplace.
Chapman and Lupton
(2004) agreed that educators and students enter a course with numerous
pre-existing assumptions about norms of behaviour in the classroom and with
expectations regarding academic study (p.430). Some of the challenges facing
foreign students in the classroom are bad behaviours of other students towards
foreign students.
Educational preferences and bias
Women of color have been a victim harassment
and victimization around the world. Contemporary sociology (2010) stated the
analysis of racial discrimination experienced by Asian- Americans is useful for
graduate students and researchers who desire further insight into dynamics of
diversity contemporary America (p.107). Many minority students face racial
discrimination about their country of origin. Some teachers have the assumption
that minority students cannot communicate effectively in English language because
it is second language but some do find a fine line to communicate with students
of color. Banks and Banks (2005)
stated that women of color in the academy have paved the way for transforming
the curriculum so that it includes women of color in more than an additive way
(p.212). Many colleges in the United States changed or develop curriculum of
study to accommodate or respect the right of women.
Conclusion
This paper has greatly analyzed the
challenges facing students of color in the United States. It further discussed
the historical reason for student of color studying in the United States.
Educational preferences and bias are the major obstacles affecting the learning
process of student of color.
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