safe houses

topic-associted, topic-centered, person-centered styles. all of those coping strategies are employed by minority to cope with majority academic pedagogical concerns. these learning strategies adopted by minorities is a helpful way to learn how minorities to cope with mainstream norm. But the sample size choosen by author is not random sample to present the whole population. first, the student body size of this class: ten were african-american and two were hispanic. two chinese-american (spoke only english), and an anglo-american student to make up for this failing class. The goal of "safe houses" is to study cope strategies of African american in academy but the class size including other minorities and two asian american (only spoke english, which may have other factors contribute to the failure not as it stated as resistance, cope switch). "safe houses" is common in society, some interpret it as confort zone, culturally (international students, or any foreigns visit in a different places). in this case, it is a safe house to escape academic standards impose in academic institution. in order to solve this problem, i think the very first step to teach prospective students or we, as educators or academic institutions should launch a program for everyone to teach everyone the differences between "social literacy and intellectual literacy" ----not making a misconception saying that school emphasis on intellectual literacy and oppress minority's right to speak their own dialect. i think we should make this type of class as mandatory course for everyone enroll in academic instituiton before taking any literature classes. ---having a solid foundation of knowledge is only way to step further in intellectual field.

in addtion, i remember an article i have read on a newspaper asking why is Jesus Christ depicts as white or Caucausians, why is gods or buddist in asia depicts as asian with oriental dress? it seems like our own conception play a huge role in interpretation. still, people pass on these ideas generations and generations without any skeptisms. history is a secondary data and it may have subverting writer's message or incorportate with someone's ideas (those got this original data firsthand and decode it into our languages) -----lost in translation.