Why do teens self-segregate along racial lines ?

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Anonymous wrote:By that logic, we should bring back all girls schools.

They went away??

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Anonymous wrote:Why do adults self-segregate in online echo chambers?

Ahhhh, good point.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is absolutely a sub-culture thing in the USA. And no, it is not necessarily on racial lines. Parents also self-select and encourage their children to hang out with other children whose families are similar or have similar interests. For example, dance kids & moms, hang out together. They are a diverse lot racially.

Another example are the nerdy, studious, serious, academically inclined kids (parents influence this). In our neck of the wood, such kids get exposed to the subculture of academically driven magnet kids subculture. As a result, regardless of SES or race, these kids start to hangout with each other. The group is usually very diverse - Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Jews, East European/Russian, White, Africans, South American etc, - yes, some races are overrepresented but the individuals within the group are very much within the subculture.

Go to any school or college - jocks are hanging out with jocks, the artsy kinds are hanging out with other artysy kinds, goths with goths, nerds with nerds.

This is how my kid’s school is — the academically motivated kids hang out and it’s very diverse. This isn’t a nerd group. But smart kids who are white, Korean, Indian, middle
Eastern, Jewish, mixed-race, international, European etc. It’s a total melting pot.

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Anonymous wrote:Spent a week this Summer at a teens’ coed summer camp and noticed this happening. The African-American kids in particular seemed to really self-segregate and only sit with AA kids during mealtimes.

Our troop is about 40% white, equal amount Asian/Indian, with a few Latinx and AA kids. But at summer camp 2025, they all just seemed to separate this way.

Why are kids still doing this in 2025? Any suggestions to stop it?

They don't feel comfortable around your white and asian kids. With each other they can relax.

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Anonymous wrote:There is literally a book about this. Read it.
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/beverly-daniel-tatum/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria/9781541616585/

The book is outdated.

So, what more current information can you share with the rest of us?

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Anonymous wrote:DEI created racist children. It was not like this 30 years ago. Thanks woke democrats!

Ha! 30 years ago I was in hs and it was this way. POCs have to codeswitch around white people. It's nice to just be yourself sometimes. I'm shocked you don't know this.

Such a ridiculous assertion. I guess saying "ask" instead of "aks" is codeswitching if you say so.

And this kind of racist nonsense is why folks spend time amongst themselves. Do you spend any time with POC? I bet no one even notices that you don't. I really can't believe we are back here in 2025.

Quite a bit. And I don't accuse them of codeswitching just because they don't conform to stereotypes that you picked up from TV.

You have no idea. And also, I don't believe you. I am a POC, so I speaker from lived experience, not anything on tv.

This seems exceedingly doubtful. You sound more like a good liberal who read White Fragility a few years ago for that one class. So now you work buzzwords like "codeswitching" and "POC" into your conversations and refer to homogeneous groups as "folks". We get it, you're a good person. Nice job.

Well I am nice. And I'm a POC. I don't know how exactly you expect me to speak. Codeswitching in not a buzzword- it's a reality
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

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There's nothing to stop. We prefer it this way. Learn to MYOB.

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Anonymous wrote:There's nothing to stop. We prefer it this way. Learn to MYOB.

I really don’t believe we can effectively address and implement diversity and inclusion if we just ignore segregation. Don’t you agree?

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats breed racist children, stop hanging out with democrats.

My SIL is as progressive as they get. Moved from a diverse to all white neighborhood and is a proud supporter of black people. She was one of the first to put up a BLM sign in her neighborhood. Her DD will be attending Notre Dame.

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Anonymous wrote:There's nothing to stop. We prefer it this way. Learn to MYOB.

Many people do prefer it. But they don’t know what they’re missing.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI created racist children. It was not like this 30 years ago. Thanks woke democrats!

Ha! 30 years ago I was in hs and it was this way. POCs have to codeswitch around white people. It's nice to just be yourself sometimes. I'm shocked you don't know this.

Such a ridiculous assertion. I guess saying "ask" instead of "aks" is codeswitching if you say so.

And this kind of racist nonsense is why folks spend time amongst themselves. Do you spend any time with POC? I bet no one even notices that you don't. I really can't believe we are back here in 2025.

Quite a bit. And I don't accuse them of codeswitching just because they don't conform to stereotypes that you picked up from TV.

You have no idea. And also, I don't believe you. I am a POC, so I speaker from lived experience, not anything on tv.

This seems exceedingly doubtful. You sound more like a good liberal who read White Fragility a few years ago for that one class. So now you work buzzwords like "codeswitching" and "POC" into your conversations and refer to homogeneous groups as "folks". We get it, you're a good person. Nice job.

Well I am nice. And I'm a POC. I don't know how exactly you expect me to speak. Codeswitching in not a buzzword- it's a reality
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

You cite NPR as a source. I rest my case.

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Anonymous wrote:I noticed the blonde girls would hang out with each other starting in elementary school.

I noticed this too in my DD’s 3rd grade cohort!

In other words white girls

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats breed racist children, stop hanging out with democrats.

My SIL is as progressive as they get. Moved from a diverse to all white neighborhood and is a proud supporter of black people. She was one of the first to put up a BLM sign in her neighborhood. Her DD will be attending Notre Dame.

Want a cookie?

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Lol, sounds like a question from someone who's definitely not a POC. I'm Asian and my best friends are Asian (from different countries). In school there was one other Asian person in my grade, and that person became my best friend. I never actively chose friends based on race, but that's just how it shook out.

Turns out, people tend to hang out with people they have stuff in common with and understand parts of your culture. It's nice to be around people who understand how you grew up differently and don't have to explain yourself all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol, sounds like a question from someone who's definitely not a POC. I'm Asian and my best friends are Asian (from different countries). In school there was one other Asian person in my grade, and that person became my best friend. I never actively chose friends based on race, but that's just how it shook out.

Turns out, people tend to hang out with people they have stuff in common with and understand parts of your culture. It's nice to be around people who understand how you grew up differently and don't have to explain yourself all the time.

No, you are not. Asians are not URMs and are not allowed to apply for scholarships, programs, summer camps, etc. , reserved for minorities who are underrepresented.