Pew Research Center's latest poll in Africa
Americans have shown that due to the increasing diversity of communities, a small number of black people consider it appropriate to treat black people as a single race.
Few Africans.
Americans think they are better off as a group than they were five years ago.
Andy kohute, director of the Pew and Media Research Center, talks with Melissa Block.
One of the most destructive forces in America today is the harmful image of pop culture for black young people, that is, what a "real" black person should look like and how the person should act.
For example, in
The highly rated love performance of 1 is characterized by a black man wearing a funny hat with a big clock hanging around his neck to N-
Words that belittle black women. And hip-
Jump music video celebrates the "mob life" and "gansta" attitude of any young black man seeking strong racial recognition.
But one critic pointed out that,
The so-called culture is failure and destructive.
Because it leads to a high drop.
Bid rate, record Blackon-
Black murder statistics and record numbersof-Marriage and children-
Considered a serious and censor.
Some questioned the lyrics to beautify violence and thought it was cool to treat women as sex toys, and they were told that the words reflected the reality of black life, who were "acting white ".
"Well, there is a new impetus for today's debate.
A survey released by the Pew Research Center and NPR showed that 67% of black men and 74% of black women think rap music has a bad impact on black America.
In fact, 59% of black men and 63% of black women think the entire hiphop industry —
From prison fashion with low trousers to indifference to work and school --
Equally harmful to black Americans.
White and Hispanic Americans also agreed.
According to the Pew survey, 64% of whites and 59% of Hispanics agree with the disruptive effects of hip hop music.
The Pew poll is the only reliable measure of black opinion.
Unlike most polls, it has a large number of black samples in addition to whites and Hispanics.
Most polls include so few blacks and Hispanics that it is difficult to draw reliable conclusions on race issues.
This survey is different and its findings are amazing.
For example, black young people who destroy the image of the media are the most frustrated (
Compared to older black people in opinion polls)
About the image of black Americans in television and movies.
Black people under the age of 50 are more likely to say that today's black media image is worse than it was 10 years ago.
And the proportion of young black people under the age of 18
Condemning the 29 Age groups currently in the media for black images as 31%-
Higher than 25% of black people aged 30
49, and 50-17% Black
The 64-year-old group has similar disdain for the black image in the media.
Similarly, when asked if the description of black people in TV and movies is harmful, it is most likely to scream "Yes!
More than half (54 percent)of 18-to 29-year-
Old African-Americans say movies and TV shows are black in a negative way.
50% of black people aged 3449 agree.
Interestingly, among black people aged 65 and older --
He may have lived in the racial image of Amos Andy.
Type the singer show into the blaxploitation movie-
The proportion of attention to the current negative image of black people fell to 18%.
Please note that in each age group, the level of anger with disturbing images in movies and television is much lower than the alarm for the effects of rap and hip corrosionhop.
These revealing cultural discoveries are only part of a series of revelations about the reality of today's black views.
Concerns about immigration have gradually become an explosive topic for immigrants.
Last year, a counter
The Los Angeles immigration organization of the American Federation of immigration reform has convened a group of black scholars and activists to announce that most black people oppose guests --
Workers Project, want to close U. S.
Border with Mexico in favor of the arrest of illegal immigrants.
This has drawn widespread attention and has been cited as Congress struggling with immigration reform earlier this year.
But the Pew survey found that only 28% of African-Americans think illegal immigration is a "very big problem" in their communities ".
There is a disagreement about whether black people will have more job opportunities if immigration is reduced.
The survey found that 46% of black Americans did not agree, and 44% agreed.
When a survey asked a similar question in 1986,
Some black respondents said that if the number of immigrants is reduced, there will be more jobs for black people.
This will show that, despite the fact that the issue of immigration is even more striking today, black concerns about the issue have actually fallen sharply.
The level of concern for black American illegal immigrants is roughly the same as that of White America (30 percent)
Below Hispanic (44 percent).
The biggest concern for black Americans is the lack of good jobs (58 percent); unwed mothers (50 percent); crime (49 percent); and drop-out rates (46 percent). A Single Race?
Another revelation from the Pew poll is that 37% of African-Americans now agree that it is no longer appropriate to treat black people as a single race.
More than half of black people are under investigation. 53 percent —
It is correct to agree that black people are considered a single race.
The most likely person to say that black people are no longer a single race is an 18-year-old young black. 29. Forty-
4% of young black people say there is no black race anymore, compared with 35% of the 30to 49-year-
Black seniors account for 34% of the population aged 65 and over.
According to opinion polls, the split of Black races comes down to values.
In answer to this question, "there is an intermediate value-
Are class and poor black people more similar or different?
61% of black Americans say "more different ".
54% of white Americans say there is a growing gap in values between the black middle class and the black poor;
45% of Hispanics also agreed.
At the same time, 72% of white people, 54% of black people, and 60% of Hispanic people agree that in the past 10 years, "the values held by black people and the values held by white people (have)
Become more similar.
"Success in the United States, which is probably the most important finding in the poll: 53% of black Americans now believe that" black people who cannot succeed have the primary responsibility for their own situation.
White American (71 percent)
And Hispanic Americans. 59 percent)
Agreeing that racism, while still a factor in American life, is not a major force in keeping poor black people poor.
They seem to say that the more oppressive forces are the lack of strong families and the prevalence of values that do not emphasize education, hard work and perseverance.
It is important to note that this is not some kind of optimistic view that ignores the reality of racism. Sixty-
8% of black people said they dealt with racial discrimination in at least two types of experiences mentioned in the poll today: for example, applying for a job, buying a house, renting a house, applying for a university, shopping or eating out.
But even if it's so hard
Most black people believe that, regardless of a person's race, black people can achieve this goal in the United States.
This is a song that is very different from the rap lyrics that you want to believe in --
People who say black people are victims unless they are thugs, pimps and criminals in society.