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1.how did society determine that men should be more tough and less vulnerable than women?

2.What events lead up to cultural stereotypes being used for popularity?

Racial Mountain:How might authors like Hughes change the view that newer generations can be affected by because of how big cultural discrimination is becoming?

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Question One: How do societal expectations differ depending on someone's race or gender?

Question Two: What determines whether someone will give into societal expectations?

Racial Mountain Question: How would the world be different if the Harlem Renaissance never happened?

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Question One: How does language play a role in how often individuals stereotype others?

Question Two: How do individuals change their culture around others?

Racial Mountain Question: What are some differences of the “racial mountain” from Hughes’ time and the present day?

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Question 1: Have gender roles (for any gender) gotten better or worse in certain aspects, in our time period compared to the past?

Question 2: How does the way that media portrays things affect racial and gender stereotypes?

Racial Mountain Question: Why did some people of color from Hughes’ time period try to be white when faced with racial stigma instead of being angry about it and try to fight it?

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Question 1: Why are individuals getting stereotyped or assumptions created about them and not being able to express their race?

Question 2: Why aren't people able to express their own culture without feeling judged by their surroundings?

Question 3: How does Hughes reveal the true American life such as having “freedom” for everyone?

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Question one: Does racism stem from misunderstanding or just intimidation?

Question Two:  What aspects of our lives are affected by racial stereotypes?

Racial Mountain Question: Do people run from their own culture or are they chased away from it?

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1: What stage would the world be like today without judgment or categorization between races in the past?

2: What gives society the need to create mental and physical borders between one another and each other?

3: How does racism affect the different societal expectations and masculinity set for people of different backgrounds?

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Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Division Street, Edison, NJ

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Question One:

Do you think the government has the power to eliminate discrimination?

Question Two:

What is the primary factor for the youth to divide themselves from their culture, heritage, and race?

Racial Mountain Question:

How would the world be different if a different or no race were on the top of the Racial Mountain?

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Question 1: In what ways can society dismantle the systemic structures that perpetuate limitations on an individual due to their race and/or gender?

Question 2:

How can we use language as a tool for fostering empathy and understanding across diverse communities and societies?

Racial Mountain:

How does Langston Hughes' racial mountain challenge societal norms and help society explore humanity's quest for social justice, compelling us to understand what an inclusive and equitable society really is?

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1: How are individuals judged when breaking free from racial stereotypes within their own race?

2: Should cultural appropriation be considered flattering, or disrespectful?

Racial mountain question: Do you think that if African Americans were in positions of power instead of white people the outcome of the racial mountain would stay the same?

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Question One:

Are people still capable of ending division in society, even though it has infested so many different places?

Question Two: Do humans divide languages or do languages divide people?

Racial Mountain Question:

How does cultural appropriation change the U.S nationally?

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Question One:

How does division based on race start, is it people related to the race or others?

Question Two:

What parts of life do gender stereotypes stem from like is it family, friends, or other relationships?

Racial Mountain Question:

Why do some people want to leave their own culture to be more appealing to American standards and why do some people not mind the standards?

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1. What would happen in America if everyone didn't descriminate because everyone did the same things with very similar looks to each other like there wasn't any diversity.

2. Do you think poets from back then that wrote about gender stereotypes would be happy about how America and the world are today?

3. What might be the racial mountain in schools today rather than in the real world, why in school?

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1. What causes men to want all the power?

2. How can men break free from social expectations and redefine what it means to be a man without sacrificing strength?

3. How does cultural appropriation affect the relationships between people in a community and are there ways we can avoid this?

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Question one: How do societal expectations cause individuals to start becoming ashamed of their culture?

Question two: Why does society create unrealistic expectations for certain genders to follow?

Racial Mountain Question: What in modern society causes the problem of cultural appropriation and individuals being unhappy with their race and culture?

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Question 1: What is the biggest factor in people’s life that influences them to stereotype others?

Question 2:  Why are people afraid of expressing their culture?

Racial Mountain Question:  At what point in our lives do we become aware of the discrimination and racism that is taking place in our society? When we do become aware, do we do anything to stop it or just watch it happen?

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Question One: What aspects of one's culture, makes them ashamed of it?

Question Two: If everyone was the same race, how would that affect discrimination and the next generation?

Racial Mountain Question: If Langston Hughes was still alive, would he still believe that there is still a racial mountain in America?

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Question One: What is the biggest factor that creates division in our society

Question Two: How does social media affect gender stereotypes in society?

Racial Mountain Question: What influences people to suppress the celebration of their culture?

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Question One: Is being ashamed of your own culture causing individuals to appropriate other cultures?

Question Two: Are adults doing a good job at stopping culture appropriation in environments like school and why?

Racial Mountain Question:  Imagine a 100 years from now, what new found racial mountains do you think America will have to confront?

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1.  If all individuals in society decided to follow American culture instead of their own, how would that impact future generations of America?

2. Is cultural appropriation more common in younger generations or older generations, and why might it be more common in one than the other?

3. Racial Mountain Question: How might the Harlem Renaissance have created a new perspective on racial identity?

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