Statistics of "Race Still Matters"

Joyce Wong
Section A01

The statistics in the SCA 5 information packet show us how that even though minorities have come a long way to be a part of the United States, divisions between and minorities still exist within the education system. One thing that I found interesting was the percentage of adults without a high school degree. I noticed that the list of ethnicities of Asians that were listed related back to one of the lectures where Professor Valverde asked us to list which categories of Asian were on top compared to others. I saw this relationship within these statistics: the Chinese, who were listed as one of the top Asian ethnicities, had the lowest percentage of adults who did not graduate from high school, while the Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, the groups the class listed as the lower top Asian ethnicities, had the highest percentage of adults who did not graduate from high school. 

Something I am curious about is the 29.7% of whites that do not attend school comprised mostly of minorities. Is there a specific region in the United States that is correlated with this number?

Are we taught that race is behind us now? Reality is that it isn't.