Non-discriminatory segregation

[theOperaGhost]

This is kind of between a debate and just an observation. I'm wondering if there is like non-discriminatory segregation like in your schools and such. I've noticed in the cafeteria here at college that all the black kids sit together and almost never sit with the white kids. White kids usually go and sit with the black kids. Honestly if someone came to our campus and cafeteria, they'd think it was still completely segregated.

What are your opinions on this? Have you seen things like this happen?

[Ryandel]

I've seen it, but I do see the two groups together on more than one occasion. I'm not sure if I'm even remotely close, but maybe it's like this at some places, for they sense a much better relationship with their own race? Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't experience that as much, as my group of acquaintances are in "racial harmony"

But I guess that's my thoughts on that

[theOperaGhost]

Yeah...idk...I mean I don't think there is any discrimination here, it's just everyone seems to stick with their own race. The Asians sit together, separate from everyone, the black people, the white people, they all sit together by race.

It could just be the social groups? This is going to sound racist, and it's not, it's the truth for this school. Every black person at this school is in athletics, thus they share that. They don't sit in the cafeteria like that though. The white athletes sit together, the black athletes sit together.

[Mzor203]

Personally I have yet to see something like this occur, myself. Up where I live the population of dark-skinned people is very small, but the ones that are here blend in with the group like any other people.

There is a high percentage of aboriginal people up here, however, yet it's the same. People up here might as well be color-blind. So maybe it varies by where you are. Maybe the dark-skinned people share something that pulls them together? Maybe earlier in the college's life the two groups were seperated when tensions where higher, and there have always been two groups of black and white, and new-comers felt somewhat obliged to stay in their group because they were there.

[Atonement]

What I've noticed in my school is the hispanic students tend to stick together and never intermix with white students. Its more unspoken and chosen. I would never refuse a person of another race to hang with me. But they just seem to choose not to.

[Sage]

I live in Canada.. there's like, one black kid at my school. >:

[Sapphire]

When I was in school there were only a handful of black people. As such, everyone socialised with each other.
Since coming to university though, I've noticed that as the number of black/asian people has increased, so has the segregation.

[byee]

I went to private school, where everyone basically came from the same socioeconomic class, regardless of race, gender, religion, etc. So, I think 'segregation' isn't based on one variable, like skin color (or eye color, ftm), but rather familiarity with, and similiarity to cultural and values issues. Typically, people tend to associate with others who share a similiar background (be it cultural or religious or ethnic), not so much out of 'discrimination' or 'segregation' (both which have a negative connotation), but simply b/c we like people who are most like ourselves, and for many, that comfort is most easily found on the 'obvious' variables, like ethnicity.

[Trickster]

Well in my school people usually flock to other who have similar ideas, values and sense of humor, etc. In my school alot of the black boys are ghetto so they hang out together, kids that like anime and stuff like that hang out together, it not usually a race thing. Although in my school id say only the hispanic guys seem to just hang out with eachother and not let just "anybody" into the group
Its what people have in common and sometimes the skin is just a small part.
I hang out with my friends at lunch and they are white, puerto rican, asian and im black. Im usually dont care the skin color, just who u are and if we get along. So I would say people do segregate into groups and cliches but its a race, or ethnicity thing. Just what people have in common.

[Halibut]

naw it just goes more with clicks although i have noticed the koreans stay togeather usually

[CookieMonster]

The schools I went to up to year 9 it was mainly white, with a few black kids. So everyone was mixed in together.
Moved here, and went to 9th grade at a school that was 80% black and 20% white. And for the most part the two separated themselves. But it wasn't really because everyone was racist, but because of the kind of fear/where everyone lived at. A white kid and black kid from the school were murdered by another kid from the school for being friends. So, yeah.

[dyslexiaa]

My school's 98 percent white. Two of my really good friends are hispanic. Discrimination is more clique-y. There's a group of farmer kids that have a faux-gang, which is hilarious. Racism is pretty rampant just because none of these kids have been around more than three black people at the same time.

[Jean Poutine]

I don't have any friends of other ethnicities than mine.

It's just that Québec City is 95% white, and the other ethnicities that ARE there all seem to be into the whole hip-hop stupid fad thing. I don't want to generalise but the false ghetto minorities are the most visible by far.

If I met a black gamer or judoka then we'd be cool beans. It just never happened as of now. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm saying I never had the pleasure to meet one.

That being said, I never noticed any segregation in my school. Everyone mingles with everyone. Except me, I mingle with no one : )

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Where I live the majority of students are white, but not by much. Probably 70% white in my school. However, I've never really seen any segregation at all. Everybody sits with anybody regardless. Race just doesn't even enter our minds really, we just see everybody as "just another person" as opposed to "just another black kid" or whatever.

[AutumnDae]

We have a grand total of......5? 6? 7? Black kids at our school. We don't single them out, not let them sit with us. Only a few have the same lunch period as most of us, so they sit with us. Donovan is actually a very good friend of mine, and he's black. I don't even notice it. He makes jokes about himself, and so does everyone else. For example, Cathy said to Nate one day "Nate, your black shirt brings out your pink skin." And then Donovan says "And my pink shirt brings out my black skin!"

I've never seen anyone's race as a problem of why I wouldn't talk to them, sit with them, whatever. It's not like they can help it or anything.