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2) Boas, F. (1911). Handbook of American Indian languages. Washington: G.P.O.

3) Jonsson, R. (2014). Boys’ Anti-School Culture Narratives and School Practices. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 45(3), 276-292.

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4) When it comes to language acquisition, it determines the ability of the individual to speak in the Standard English. As for the blacks Americans, the African American vernacular English will interfere with the Standard English hence leading to the changes in the sounds produced while speaking. As per (Boas, 1911) the changes in language sounds are common more so when people who speak in different languages interact leading to the people interacting to have words introduced into the language hence resulting in the changes in the language. In any language, there are the vocabularies which are learnt when an individual was still young, and these neither will nor miss in the language which the person will speak at the later stage in life. These languages also keep on changing within different geographical areas. Though there are these changes, the basics are retained.

For a long time, there have been debates targeting the boys' oppositional behavior and their underachievement in schools. These debates are aimed at identifying the cause of these behaviors amongst the boys. From an ethnographical point of view, it is clear that influential theory significantly impacts the boys' anti-school culture. Equally important, the kind of narrative reproduced in regards to this theory gives a glimpse that social interaction is given priority in most school setting or contexts. The thesis statement of this article is that there has been criticism from the scholars who have been referring to boys as the new losers because many scholars are girls and boys have been left behind. According to (Jonsson, R. 2014) these researchers have observed that there is a gap when it comes to education between males and females but there is the need to extent the same to other categorization apart from gender. This can be done by identifying the ratio of the scholars in different races. From this information, it indicates that boys are at risk when it comes to education and in turn, this will affect the working class whereby there will be more women who are working than men.

However, this classification whereby they talk about the boy's anti-school culture, it explains the behaviors of the boys at school, and this might lead to the production of the rowdy boys in a way that it is not easy to clarify the complexity of the students and the strategies used during the identification. With the trend in which the boys are not valuing education, there is the need to find measures which will be used to curb the current situation because if the trend will be left to continue, then in future it will not only be in the education system but also it will extend to the workplaces. So, to avoid such situation boys should be made value education.

Running Head: ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION QUARTERLY 1

5) The thesis statement of this article is that when it comes to abilities of the students to learn, the physical differences do not contribute towards the difference in abilities to acquire knowledge. This is because; all the students have the same learning process only that the environment in which they were brought up contributes to the differences. Also, the thesis statement of this article is that there has been criticism from the scholars who have been referring to boys as the new losers because many scholars are girls and boys have been left behind.

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