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OP seems to be using "real" as code for "white"
by muzz 8y ago
OP seems to be using "real" as code for "white"
- dvt 8y agoDude, you are way off, not to mention offensive. Georgia (particularly the Metro Atlanta area where I grew up in) is so much more diverse than Santa Monica (where I live now) or the lily-white Bay Area, or my classes at UCLA, it's actually not even close.
- muzz 8y agoYou still haven't explained what your usage of "real" means.
- Avshalom 8y agoMore representative of the opportunity space (or lack of) in the USA that the majority face. Keep in mind Georgia isn't any whiter than California (the prototypical 'not really America's Boogeyman)
- muzz 8y ago"Real" usually means "genuine" or "authentic", rather than "representative of the average". (I realize you are someone other than the OP) Also, America is the land of _lack_ of opportunity? I certainly hope that's not the case.
- Avshalom 8y agoHopes are completely orthogonal to reality.
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoThought for the day: Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
- muzz 8y agoNot sure what your comment adds to the discussion
- wbl 8y agoLily white? The bay is majority minority. http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SantaClaraCounty.htm http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SantaClaraCounty.ht...
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoAs is common nowadays, I think he's using "white" as code for "not black". For those coming from the South, it must be something of a shift to assuming that you can have a proportional, diverse environment in which black people are, as in the country as a whole, 13% of the population.
- tbyehl 8y agoPeople in the Bay Area have a different view of diversity than people who grew up in the Southeast. What we notice in the Bay Area is that there aren't any black folk.