ethnic culture

I witnessed a very interesting conversation today during my observations. This happened during the review game they were playing and everyone was talking. A white girl said, "everyone be quiet and respect". All the black kids in the class laughed at her. The way she phrased it was "a black way" of saying it and the black kids, I'm sure, thought she was trying to be black. As something that could potentially be a bad situation, my Co-op teacher turned it into a positive situation. She said," you guys can laugh but she is right". She managed to turn it around so that she didn't criticize either parties; she just stated her view on the topic. It shows the difference in culture. The black kids thought the white girl said something that she shouldn't have said and yet, the white girl didn't realize what was wrong about what she said. Each culture has their own language patterns and this is a perfect example of that.