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Anonymous
Pg 186 has table 12 and does not include anything about race. Can you give the correct page number? I'm interested in reading the findings. |
Anonymous
Absolutely this is true for many AAs. This cycle is slowly being broken (I'm proof of that), but this is very real. It's very hard to break the cycle of poverty and inertia in 50 years when you faced oppression for the previous 300+ years. The days of government sanctioned oppression were not that long ago; many of these people are still alive today. |
Anonymous
Keep scrolling down until you get to table 27. It's page 186 of the actual document, Not the page number that appears on your computer as you're scrolling (I think that would be different for different computers so that number that appears on my computer may be different than yours and wouldn't be helpful.). Also, for a quick bar chart, go tp page number O-25 (toward the beginning). It breaks down some stats based on Age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, etc. |
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| Thanks for posting the stats PP. |
Anonymous
I am by no means a statistician, but I do not trust these reports that break down statistics by race unless they control for income. The rate of poverty among black people in this country is nearly triple what it is for whites. When you look at this table about credit scores, it shows that blacks tend to have the lowest credit scores among the races, but it also shows that low income people tend to have the lowest credit scores among the races. So it's likely that a lot of the reason that blacks tend to have lower test scores is because that blacks tend to be poorer than other races. |
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You are arguing a different point than the PP. PP just asked why (and provided statistics) it is that blacks have lower credit scores. Then she/he offered their opinion of why that is, and asked for additional reasons.
Being poor does not necessarily mean that you will have a low credit score. There are a lot of wealthy people of all races with horrible credit scores. It's about managing your money and being responsible. Of course, there are other factors that can cause a bad credit score like medical emergencies and unexpected unemployment, etc. |
Anonymous
Yes we shave our legs and underarm hair. |
Anonymous
Maybe it wasn't clear, but my point was that blacks have lower credit scores in part because as a race, we are poorer and poorer people of any race tend to have lower credit scores. So if it's about managing your money and being responsible, that is a skill that lower income people tend to have in lower numbers across the races, not just among blacks. |
Anonymous
I had a principal in high school who was an AA woman and did not shave her legs. (Don't know about the armpits, but you could see her legs.) I would guess this is strictly personal and has nothing to do with race, because I know plenty of white women (and I am white) who won't shave their legs all winter because they're lazy and "nobody sees them anyway." |
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I think maintaining good credit is more about education than anything else. I don't believe any race has the market cornered on good credit. There are many many white people who have shitty credit, and not only the lower income bracket. America is a showy, "live for the moment" culture. Many people live beyond their means, buy things they THINK they can afford and keep racking up credit card debt.
Many parents don't teach children how to manage money, it's a vicious cycle. |
Anonymous
New poster but there is a lack of credit maintenance education in communities that tend to have lower incomes. |
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It is. I shave my armpits and I would shave my legs if I had enough hair down their to shave. You have to have your nose touching my shins to be able to see them, so why bother?
My mother, on the other hand walks around with bush armpits, no matter how much shit I give her for them. |
Anonymous
Full disclosure: white woman answering. From researching pregnancy related issues while pregnant, I believe the reason for this is that 'average' gestational age varies by ethnicity (shorter for those of African descent, longer for those of Caucasian descent), so that impacts how close to ready for birth a baby is at 36 weeks. Though the research is still trying to figure out these variations. Related studies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15282448?dopt=Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1425069/ |
Anonymous
Hmm, do you really have to ask? |
Anonymous
I agree. As an honor roll student, I was not teased. I also was and also continue to be down to earth and gregarious. |