Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: valuable for PD etc or is there better
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Anonymous
The assumptions you all make! You just can't believe there might actually be a genuinely diverse group of friends in the world that is not majority white. That's sad. |
Anonymous
There might be. It just isn’t born out in studies about friendship and social circles. Anecdotally: No one white who has said to me that their friend group is not mostly white has ever shown me evidence though. When they start naming, it turns out the group is 2/3 to 3/4 white. I know people of color who are in truly diverse groups, but it is usually 3/4 people of color of different races or ethnicities and just a couple white people. My own friend group mirrors this: lots of black, Latinx, and biracial people, a few Asians, and two white people. Many whites are simply too uncomfortable being the minority to form and remain in groups that are 1/2 or more people of color. In my friend group, one of the white women is married to a black man and has biracial children. The other lived in West Africa for a decade. Otherwise, the rest of my white friends probably can count only one other person of color as a real friend rather than simply a coworker, a relative’s partner/spouse, or a neighbor with whom they are sociable. This doesn’t mean I think they are racists. |
Anonymous
| I would recommend Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt: https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Shapes/dp/0735224935/ |
Anonymous
May be too late to reverse course. |