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Why do so many black college students choose to major in business? Why not engineering or physics, or math or chemistry?
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Name : Nicole, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black and white, Religion : Christian, Age : 22, City : Portsmouth, State : VA, Country : United States, Occupation : Data Analyst, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Alexis de Toqueville saw this country’s lust for profits as far back as the 1830s. In the early 1900s, George Washington Carver instructed his students thus at Tuskegee Institute: Learn a trade, start a business and make money (he’s been sadly misread over the years). The mediocre Calvin Coolidge said famously that ‘the business of America is business.’ That was in 1922. And remember the ’80s?
de Toqueville also saw that there was a rampant anti-intellectualism and mistrust of scientific smarts in America. Science is acceptable only if there is monetary profit to be made of it. That has always been the case here, or just about everyone would have stayed home. I’ll bet if you took a representative sample of white people at any university, most of them would be majoring in business, too. Most of the white kids I knew at school did. Look at U.S. culture. It sprawls itself before the altar of money. Everyone wants their share. That’s why many immigrants of all races in U.S. colleges take business.
African Americans are like any other Americans. I know I’d love to see a few more of us as CEOs, even as I’d love to see more of us represented in the sciences. Why do so many people stick up for Bill Gates, even as he breaks the law? Because he’s worth $60 billion. And what does money equal? Power. What’s the rap by Public Enemy? – ‘Cause I know the time, ’cause I’m gettin’ mine.’ For your fellow African-American classmates, that means a business degree and an MBA.
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Name : Miranda J., Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : African, Cherokee, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Religion : Unitarian, Age : 30, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Production Coordinator, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,The reason some blacks don’t major in math, physics, biology, etc., is that blacks aren’t encouraged to major in those subjects. Schools encourage blacks to go to a technical school and/or join the military upon graduation from high school. Blacks have the intelligence to major in the previously stated subjects; we’re just not encouraged to. As far as majoring in business, blacks are encouraged by other blacks to major in business. If blacks open their own businesses, it is believed that we can obtain more power in a domineering society, one in which power is not given to blacks in the same manner that whites are given power. Also, not all blacks major in business. I’m a black woman, I have a degree, and I did not major in business. I am in the fine arts field. When I think about my college friends (I went to a historically black college) from Wilberforce University, none of us majored in business. However, business is one of the strongest and most successful programs at Wilberforce’s campus.
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Name : Georgette W., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : African Methodist Episcopal, Age : 25, City : Cincinnati, State : OH, Country : United States, Occupation : Museum Industry, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,As a black who has an advanced degree in chemistry and who has taught at the university level for some time, my conclusion is: Students tend to gravitate toward those fields that have visibility in their community. Most African Americans do not know a black who is a chemist, physicist, etc. That is why African-American students interested in science are much more likely to be pre-med, pre-dentistry or pharmacy majors.
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Name : Paul30490, Gender : M, Race : Black/African American, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,At my college it’s the opposite. A large number of the blacks at my school are either pre-Med or engineering majors! I feel so out of place with my dinky Linguistics major! *giggles*
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Name : K-Joseph26912, Gender : F, Race : West-Indian American, Age : 19, City : Bronx, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : College Student,
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