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I don't know if I buy the article as its written. It's too easy to make a racial issue out of normal high school group dynamics... I'm skeptical.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't know if I buy the article as its written. It's too easy to make a racial issue out of normal high school group dynamics... I'm skeptical.
- jff 17y agoNormal high school dynamics don't usually end up with 30 people injured over the course of a few days. If blacks are attacking asians for being asian, it's racism. Now, if it happens that the problem is limited to two rival/conflicting cliques or something, sure, maybe it's not a race problem.
- yardie 17y agoI think the article is correct as it is written. You take a school in an impoverished neighborhood mix in language difficulties and it becomes much easier for these things to occur. Add in the fact that chinese television doesn't display black people in a positive light. All it takes is one word to set thing off. I know this because through the early to mid 90s there was a huge wave of haitian and cuban immigrants to my school. Because of language barriers and cultural differences there was constant fighting. Then they formed gangs and what started as 1on1 or 2on1 escalated to 30-50 people. The main difference was the school was good with enforcement so the fights always occurred offcampus. Eventually, the haitian immigrants learned english and everything calmed down after that. But this school should definitely be doing more.