Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Acting White

"Acting white" is described at Wikipedia as usually applied to African-Americans (and by Ralph Nader to Obama). But this post has a graph indicating Hispanic students turn against their peers with high grades more strongly than do black students. The article to which it refers is worth reading, though it dates to 2006.

The idea is that the peer group fears losing its most successful members so tries to reinforce its sanctions to maintain its integrity.

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