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It makes sense to me. I went to both a high school and a college where there were sizable minority groups. To be clear, I ended up making friends with a divers
by jakarta 17y ago
It makes sense to me. I went to both a high school and a college where there were sizable minority groups.
To be clear, I ended up making friends with a diverse group. But I would often get strange looks for not sitting with other members of my own race (asian) in my classes.
What I noticed was that, if the minority populations are large enough, there is no incentive to really inner mingle among races.
At my college, you would see fraternities where there were clear race lines, so there would be a white fraternity, an asian fraternity, hispanic, etc.
Conversely, there is a university in a nearby city where the minority groups are much smaller so minorities don't have the luxury of clustering together into separate groups. So I saw more people with more cross-race relationships.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoMy fraternity was predominantly white, but not by design. It just worked out that way. I recall we once pledged a guy named Jose, a very cool guy who happened to be Hispanic. We were really happy to have him. But the local fraternity that specialized in Hispanics continually harassed him until he couldn't see any solution but to drop out of our pledge class.