Blog 6

     While watching the video "Introduction to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy", the question of "are culture and race the same thing?" is asked. Saying the answer is yes could not be any father from the truth. If a teacher were to believe this they wouldn't be doing their job properly as a teacher. Race is something that not a single person in this world can control. However, everyone should have the opportunity to learn and experience different cultures. Culture is typically assigned to a race but it is not kept there. A teacher must being able to separate the two if they want to be successful. For example, if a teacher wants to teach about the civil rights movement then the teacher has to teach about black culture. But if race and culture are the same thing then would that mean a white person shouldn't be learning about it. What about Asian or Hispanic? I know for myself that is race and culture were the same thing I would not be who I am today.

    I have grown up loving to play funk and blues. Every Sunday I would attend a blues jam session at Murphy's Law in Pawtucket. In terms of music, blues and funk are a part of black culture. But here I was, little white boy Myles sitting in and learning this part of music culture and it even becoming a part of me as a whole. If blues and funk were a part of race I would have never gotten to experience any of that. I don't know if I would even be a musician today if it were not for those genres of music. It is so important that the benefits of learning cultures and the label of race are differentiated in the world of education to allow for our students to fully become and grow into who they want to be.

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