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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (156311)6/28/2001 1:02:12 PM
From: George Coyne  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
Contrariwise in many poor minority homes the pressures are against academic achievement. It is really quite baffling to see. But it exists and is ubiquitous in some minority cultures.

JP, See "LOSING THE RACE: Self-Sabotage in Black America" by John H. McWhorter for an explanation of this unfortunate dynamic.

G. W.