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Another Useless Study: Black Girls Oppressed By Their Mothers???

Okay, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but there is yet another study out about Black girls. Apparently Black and Hispanic girls are more likely to defer to their mothers than their White counterparts:
“Within African-American and Latino families, children follow a cultural tradition that places a high value on respecting, obeying and learning from elders, and in our study they did indeed show more respect for parental authority,” said Julia Graber, a UF psychology professor. DIVERSE HISPANICFYI to researchers... it's called spanking! Or "my childhood oppression" as I like to refer to it these days. I remember being in the supermarket and watching little White kids throw temper tantrums and all manner of other behavior waiting on their Mamas to give them "THE LOOK" that meant they were going o get it when they got home, but it never happened.

The girls’ respect for authority was observed through videotaped interactions with their mothers. Daughters were scored on their listening behaviors when their mothers were speaking: attending to them, acknowledging their mothers' comments and not interrupting. They also were evaluated for defiant behaviors, such as disobeying their mothers' requests, being unwilling to cooperate and ignoring their mothers.

When African-American and Latina girls do act up, said Graber, their mothers consider the arguments to be more intense than those reported by white mothers who clash with their daughters. DIVERSE HISPANIC

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