Culture and its Impact on Minority Students

Culture plays important role in shaping persons outlook. Academic difficulties faced by ethnic minority students are linked to cultural discontinuity between their home culture and academic culture. More often ethnic minority students faced academic challenges than nonminorities students. Do students background factors effect on academic performance? The paper argues that minority students/first-generation students face academic difficulty because of inequitable access to educational opportunities and lack of academic exposures. We look the problem through the lens of cultural perspectives because culture addresses the issues of human diversity in psychological processes that depends on cultural meanings and practices. Practicing independence norms in university which is relatively opposed the interdependence norms or socialization of working-class contexts. Thus, we predicted ethnic minority student’s experiences cultural discontinuity at university culture in terms of independent norms as a result they face many challenges than other students. The research highlights the cultural practices correlate with student’s performance. Acknowledging diverse cultural would help students’ increase access in education, retain and their academic outcomes. There is little empirical work has been done on this area, therefore more research is needed.