Several features of academic culture in the US are believed to come from a dominant WASP culture. Punctuality is another white habit of mind often imposed on students (of color) in ESL classrooms Placing importance on time management is a product of white habits of mind
Success in conventional classrooms is synonymous with adopting a white racial habitus Comparing what students do with what you were expected to do when you were in college is an unconscious dog whistle, or red flag, for enforcing habits of white languaging, and through it, white supremacy Ideological neutrality in education only serves to support the current dominant ideologies.; in this case, a white racial habitus.
Students who do not have access to a white racial habitus will not easily understand its rules Students who were not raised in white habitus households struggle to adopt habits of white language in college Students who have or are adjacent to privilege may not notice the struggle of adopting a white language habitus that other students do