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Ethnic Discrimination and Its Impact Among The Grade-10 Students of Saint Teresita'S Academy
Ethnic Discrimination and Its Impact Among The Grade-10 Students of Saint Teresita'S Academy
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for different ethnic students to foster a sense of belonging and lessen the exert impact of
discrimination in their field. Such approaches would serve as academic engagement to all
students equally.
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Hannah Chea (Feb.19, 2019 5:40 p.m.) Sellers, Caddwell, Schmeelk-Cone, 2003
https://dailybruin.com/2019/02/19/the-quad-negative-effects-of-racism-discrimination-on
mental-health/
https://www.nap.edu/read/11086/chapter/15
https://www.apa.org/news/press/release/2018/09/racial-ethnic-discrimination
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/ethnic-discrimination
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/race-discrimination
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313993916_Ethnic_Discrimination
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034554
https://mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/10/208
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ABSTRACT
Education is a tool to change the oppressing system. However, sometimes, education also
caters ethnic discrimination that eventually occurs in a school premise. Schools provide students
a home of learning and can be considered as safe havens for students’ nourishment and
development. But in some cases, many grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy are
Saint Teresita’s Academy manifested and report perceived ethnic discrimination as predictor of
academic achievements. Ethnic discrimination is linked to negative sides and various impacts to
students’ perception, self-esteem, mental and emotional health, language barriers, and academic
achievement and engagement. Students who are connected to ethnic discrimination are more
likely to develop anxiety and depression that can hinder them to positively function. Having an
anxiety and depression to students’ health is literally bad because it will make them feel nothing
but sadness and loneliness to the point that it will suffocate them. Hence, ethnic discrimination
exacts a heavy toll on the physical, emotional, and social health and well-being of students.
Guided by a risk and resilience framework, this study pays a particular attention to the
implications of the negative effects of ethnic discrimination in terms of students’ persona and
academic outcome. To understand school experience within the context of ethnic discrimination
therefore requires as a starting point, a clear appreciation of the social identities of ethnic groups.
The present study lies in a close consideration of ethnicity as dimensions of social identity which
come into play in the construction of school experiences, and not as a different diversity. The
encounters of the daily basis ethnic discrimination of students potentially serve to negatively
affecting students’ socialization and social integration. Implications of the impacts underlying
ethnic discrimination among grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy will be discussed.
INTRODUCTION
Schools are considered as the home of development and comfortability. It is a place where
students are being nurtured and given knowledge for the betterment of their well-being.
discrimination. Despite of its good amends, most of the grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s
Academy are being bullied, and are experiencing a negative and boastful treatment in terms of
their ethnicity. Experiences with ethnic discrimination are quite common but difficult to cope in
the part of students with different kinds of ethnic groups such as Kalanguya, Igorot, and Ifugao.
Thus, this study show how ethnic discrimination in education are experienced by the grade 10
students of Saint Teresita’s Academy , and how they were greatly affected by the unfair
judgment of the fellow students. This paper contemplates the school experiences of grade 10
students with ethnic discrimination in school affiliated to their academic aftermath, ideas, beliefs,
and behaviors. If peers’ treatment and actions are gruesome and harsh, and if it shows
discrimination like excluding students from social activities because they are different, students
with ethnicity may feel less positive and sensitive towards their academic capabilities, and their
self-confidence would be negatively affected. Hence, this paper sought to ponder the pervasive
on their health and well-being. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to promote awareness
discrimination.
One group that suffered from the effects of discrimination is ethnic minorities. Ethnicity plays a
role in the development of distinctive outlooks at school as a function of students’ social
(Fenton, 2003). However, most of the people tend to judge ethnicity because they think that they
are different and low. Many grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy commonly
experience judgment and unkind treatment on a daily basis because of their ethnic differences.
Thus, experience with ethnic discrimination can increase an individual’s vulnerability to other
negative experiences by exacerbating the stress response initiated by unrelated, yet stressful
experiences (Myers, 2009). Ethnic discrimination manifests a number of small ways that build
up and ultimately impact an individual’s health negatively (Dr. May, 2019). Evidence
demonstrating the effect of ethnic discrimination on mental health has indicated serious
discrepancies in mental health outcomes among ethnic groups, such as depression and a general
and anxiety are only few of the health disorders may arise (Hannah Chea, 2019). Students from
grade 10 Saint Teresita’s Academy who experience discrimination from their peers are likely to
have negative attitude, behavior, and lower academic performance because it can cause their
brain not to be able to plan, think, and respond in spheres, which ultimately disrupts student
students perceived discrimination in school, it impacts their beliefs, attitude, and performance
towards school (Fenton, 2003). In particular, a study of Benner and Graham (2013) found that
discrimination from peers because of ethnic differences was associated with lower grades and
affected as well as his personality, and his behavior changes such as his dealings with other
individual is no good because his self-esteem lessen due to discrimination. Specifically, not all
students respond to discrimination in the way that it will mitigate (Sellers, Caddwell, Schmeelk-
Cone, 2003).Regardless of the extremity, when instances of discrimination occur, the person
experiencing ethnic discrimination is often left distressed and their concentration and focus is
disrupted. In settings like a classroom, students who experience ethnic discrimination on a daily
basis may find it difficult to focus on the task, thus impeding on their activities and interactions
(Hannah Chea). Research found that ethnic discrimination has detrimental impacts towards
The study provides insight and learning into how ethnic discrimination greatly impacts the grade
10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy. The finding suggests that ethnic discrimination is a
normative experience for students with ethnic minorities, but greatly impact their psychological
health including their mental and emotional health. Also, students might develop poor language
skills, interaction, self-confidence, anxiety and depression that results to low academic
attainment and success. Research has found that a major motivation for ethnic-racial socializing
among ethnic minority parents is to buffer children from negative effects of ethnic/racial
discrimination (Peter, 2002; Suizze et al. 2008). Parents may be able to mitigate and prevent
practices, which include discussions aimed at helping students to negotiate a stigmatized identity
(Aprile Benner, 2013). Good parenting should always be done so that the students’ self-esteem
is being enhanced. Learners and educators must receive and give nurturing, monitoring, and
accountability while they take risks to become aware and learn to solve racial stress, disrupts,
and conflict in daily social interactions. Education needs to support student’s development and
execution of culturally relevant practices that will recognize and affirm their identities as crucial