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America is the world's biggest melting pot relatively speaking. Most American's social circles look like themselves. Also I suspect there is a gap between the n

America is the world's biggest melting pot relatively speaking. Most American's social circles look like themselves. Also I suspect there is a gap between the number of people who have no issue with having a diverse group of friends and those who actually do. Drawing on techniques from social network analysis, PRRI’s 2013 American Values Survey asked respondents to identify as many as seven people with whom they had discussed important matters in the six months prior to the survey. The results reveal just how segregated white social circles are. Overall, the social networks of whites are a remarkable 91 percent white. White American social networks are only one percent black, one percent Hispanic, one percent Asian or Pacific Islander, one percent mixed race, and one percent other race. In fact, fully three-quarters (75 percent) of whites have entirely white social networks without any minority presence. This level of social-network racial homogeneity among whites is significantly higher than among black Americans (65 percent) or Hispanic Americans (46 percent). Links: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/self-segregation-why-its-hard-for-whites-to-understand-ferguson/378928/ http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/self-seg... http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/08/cropped/79324c442.jpg http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/08/cr... http://www.prri.org/research/2013-american-values-survey/ http://www.prri.org/research/2013-american-values-survey/

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
Isn't that exactly what you'd expect statistically? That the majority members would mostly have circles representing the majority? In fact, its more telling that minorities have social circles that don't include many of the majority. Because that is a whole lot more self-selected - it can't be random. That black Americans' social circles have 65-percent minority membership is several standard deviations outside what could be normal.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago
  The 2010 census shows the US as 64% non-Hispanic white. It's just as impossible for their social groups to be 91% white by random chance as it is for blacks' social groups to be 65% black. You can explain the whites who have no connection to any nonwhite by saying that nonwhites tend to be concentrated in particular areas such as Louisiana or New York City, but that makes the nonwhites look significantly more integrated compared to the whites.
iwontreddit 10y ago
This is just white people. Asians stick with asians, blacks with blacks, hispanics with hispanics, natives with natives. I love how people love to pretend that the US is some kind of idealized place. It isn't. I mean look at all the Black Lives Matter stuff. Look at asians complaining about quotas in colleges and lack of opportunities in hollywood/etc. The same with hispanics.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago

Isn't that exactly what you'd expect statistically? That the majority members would mostly have circles representing the majority? In fact, its more telling that minorities have social circles that don't include many of the majority. Because that is a whole lot more self-selected - it can't be random. That black Americans' social circles have 65-percent minority membership is several standard deviations outside what could be normal.

thaumasiotes 10y ago
The 2010 census shows the US as 64% non-Hispanic white. It's just as impossible for their social groups to be 91% white by random chance as it is for blacks' social groups to be 65% black. You can explain the whites who have no connection to any nonwhite by saying that nonwhites tend to be concentrated in particular areas such as Louisiana or New York City, but that makes the nonwhites look significantly more integrated compared to the whites.

iwontreddit 10y ago

This is just white people. Asians stick with asians, blacks with blacks, hispanics with hispanics, natives with natives. I love how people love to pretend that the US is some kind of idealized place. It isn't. I mean look at all the Black Lives Matter stuff. Look at asians complaining about quotas in colleges and lack of opportunities in hollywood/etc. The same with hispanics.