Cultural Difference vs.Cultural Deficit

            I believe that the Fox News and Ebonics video reflected cultural deficit perspective. This is because the students were not being corrected in the classroom when it came to mispronouncing and not enunciating certain words. They were deprived of the corrections that would help them academically succeed down the road. This video showed how the lack of correction affected student performance within the academic system.

            The "What Matters: Code Switching" video reflected a cultural difference perspective. There are many different styles of language in the world and teachers must learn to accommodate the different ways words are used. With the issue of code switching all cultures do it, just in different ways and with different meanings.  Code switching is more of an inadvertent misunderstanding among teachers and students.