Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Cultural Deficit/Cultural Difference
After watching the two different videos, "What Matters-Code Switching: Communication that Matters" and "Fox News and Black English-Ebonics," I feel that the Fox News video reflects cultural deficit. Many of the students that were saying "AX" instead of "ASK" were stating that they didn't know better because nobody has ever corrected them. In their community, that is the way they speak and weren't told any different. The Code Switching video reflects cultural difference because the children in the communities know better and have been taught to change the way they speak when in different situations. However, many of the students are choosing not to code switch. Many of the people surrounding them are used to hearing their "slang" that they don't correct them so they continue to use it.
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