SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Xenocentrism, Affirmative Action, Language Barrier
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It creates an increased wide knowledge base. Lynch (1981) argues that as long as cultural diversity is not used as a tool for ethnic division and segregation it is a healthy phenomenon that can promote unity and tolerance. Gwarinda (2001) says there is a tendency of people condemning other people"s culture while boosting that their culture is the best hence becoming the standard measure against which all other cultures are judged. Also creates bias, prejudice and feelings of hatred of other social groups. Ethnocentrism always leads to conflicts and wars in societies. Identify operations in the secondary school system that try to cater for pupils from different cultural backgrounds. How effective are they, if not effective, suggest possible strategies. Discrimination of pupils according to social class backgrounds. An adolescent is a young person in transition from childhood to adulthood. The age of adolescence is approximated from 12yrs to 18yrs although some may.
