Festive Drinks Quiz - 5 January
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...how shall we fix that? Yep you guessed it, with more racism! You couldn't make it up! How can science possibly be racist?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Is it not possible that black students simply don't have a proportionate interest in following science, rather than the unfounded assumption that science is 'racist'?
And if anyone believes that the answer to a situation that is more a matter of perception than evidence, is to favour scientists simply on the basis of the colour of their skin, then as TTT points out, that is responding to a notion of racism, with actual provable racism.
For me the main problem here is that rather than look to see where the problem lies they jump to creating 650K of grants based on rasicm.
Surely they should be looking at why Black students drop out (and Bangladeshi it appears).
And, just out of interest, what constitutes a black heritage (they seem to have classified mixed race separately)?
Science no, but I suspect parts of academia which can feed into the research bodies are still bastions of white privilege. It may simply be lack of profile as they say you need to see it to be it, maybe if the major institutions used more diverse representatives in their promotional material things might naturally balance over a period of time.
The failings within the Bangladeshi population may arise from well before the point at which students enter higher education. Traditionally they tend to live in more deprived areas, with poorer schools, and lower aspirations unlike those from India where there is more likely kept to be an expectation of achievement with families willing to invest in their children's success
//Readers of Brilliant Black British History, by the Nigerian-born British author Atinuke, are told the neolithic monument in Wiltshire was built while Britain was a 'black country'. //
Haha they built them all over Africa as well. ... Not.
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