Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Jazmin Coronel
Professor Granillo
English 101
12 September 2018
College is another stepping stone in the adventure of education. We all know college can
be a difficult new experience for incoming freshman so to make it less stressful college students
create minority groups. In Gabriela Moro’s essay “ Minority Student Clubs: Segregation of
Integration?” she asses the pros and cons of ethnic specific minority clubs in a college
environment. Minority groups have been implemented onto college campuses to provide a safe
environment where students are allowed to speak freely and thrive in academic success with
students of similar backgrounds. In recent years many of the schools had made it a high priority
to increase diversity by having these minority groups for culturally diverse students. To prepare
them for upcoming difficulties that college has as well as society that can or cannot be inclusive
On the other hand are having these culturally specific groups threatening for students of
other ethnicities who want to join or learn of different cultures? What if having these types of
specific oriented groups students get accustomed to just interacting with students of the same
background as their own? As students become more comfortable with peers of the same culture
they lose the desire or feel no need to branch out and learn about other cultures. Not only in
having these culturally specific groups give students no need to come out of their comfort
zone,but it also leads them to self-segregate themselves. In general college students tend to
separate themselves when they don’t feel comfortable so in having these groups it just reinforced
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self segregation. While there are many downsides to having minority groups for specific
cultures, students that have these groups rely on help them through their college experience.
Gabriela Moro presents “I thought [cultural clubs were] something I maybe didnt need, but come
November, I missed speaking Spanish and I missed having tacos, and other things like that.
That's the reason why I started attending meetings more regularly (Moro 272).” Minority groups
help incoming freshman transition into a new environment also encourage them to make
connections to their own culture. These clubs not only help students stay connected with there
culture but help them find their place at universities. In having these ethnicity specific clubs the
issue of students segregating themselves will still pop up.Although instead of having these
biracial clubs we should bring diversity clubs that allow everyone to get together and learn about
As more and more diverse students go to college having minority groups creates a tool
where it helps students strive and succeed in their college experience. As said before when
having these race specific clubs it does bring up the issue of students who are not of that
ethnicity create self-segregation. Yet can be fixed by having multicultural activities to encourage
more racial interaction to show races aren't so different for others and lesson the stereotypes
society creates. Having these types of events not only allows students to learn about different
cultures that aren’t their own but allows them to see what it like in someone else heritage instead
of their own. A balance needs to be found in giving these students support for minorities and
avoiding the segregation these specific clubs contain from the rest of the student body.Yet these
events can’t happen on just their own the participation of faculty and especially the students is
Works Cited
Moro Gabriela. “ Minority Student Clubs: Segregation of Integration?.” They Say I Say, Gerald