Michael Atherton wrote:
I believe that culture is more important. There is no
study that I have been able to find (I've look for years),
but anecdotally you need only look at examples of families
whose cultures emphasize the importance of knowledge and
learning to see that income is not the determining factor; e.g.,
WM: There's something wrong with the logic here. Both African American
and American Indian peoples were deliberately denied their cultures.
Beaten and murdered for using their own languages (primary carrier of a
culture), dragged away/marched away from their homes, and separated from
each other. For all practical purposes these groups no longer have their
own integrated cultures. What they do have is imposed on them by the
dominant culture as a negative. Further skewering the issue is the fact
that the dominant culture has imposed rigid and insistent poverty on
these groups for longer than USA has been a nation. Add to that the
deliberate refusal to acknowledge their contributions to the general
welfare and you get perfect conditions for producing failures and making
successes more difficult to achieve for members of the groups.
WizardMarks, Central
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