S/O- how diverse is your kid's friend group?

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Anonymous wrote:The OP has responded; not sure if she is still reading this.

In any event, from her responses it’s clear she is really trying to help her child to avoid whites / the MAGAs in college.

To op, I think your best bet would be to avoid flyover country (ie the Midwest) and also avoid the trend to consider schools in the South (and especially Florida!).

Focus on New England or California schools exclusively.

They need to relocate to CCP China to avoid Maga completely.

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I don't ask my kid the race of her friends. But I can tell from pics she has shared that two of her good friends appear to be black. Her first year roommate was too. She goes to Smith College.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid has a friend group that includes white, black, Latino, south Asian, and East Asian, or a good majority of these, can you let me know the school? My kids have very diverse friend groups and I'm trying to figure out which T50 schools will give them both a good education AND an inclusive environment.

Univ of Chicago
Stanford
MIT
Georgia Tech
NYU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OP has responded; not sure if she is still reading this.

In any event, from her responses it’s clear she is really trying to help her child to avoid whites / the MAGAs in college.

To op, I think your best bet would be to avoid flyover country (ie the Midwest) and also avoid the trend to consider schools in the South (and especially Florida!).

Focus on New England or California schools exclusively.

Reading r/AsianParentStories on Reddit, it feels like a lot of second-gen Asian kids end up going NC with their immigrant parents. Not sure if that group is actually the root cause 🙂 Just wild guess.

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Most schools where academics play a significant part in admissions and they offer generous financial aid, tend to be diverse. However, Brown, Rice, UC Berkeley, Hopkins etc are very diverse and student groups reflect that.

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Anonymous wrote:Diverse means having different majors, a mix of arts and techies or supporting different ideologies

It can mean all of that, plus ethnic, religious, racial and sexual orientation diversity.

Yes, it can and does mean inclusion of those groups.

but it does NOT include political diversity, in any way, shape, or form!

Does it mean academic and non-academic interests too?

If you have white male friends in college 50% are conservative.

Not at Berkeley.

Or U. of Wisconsin, Madison. Or U. of Oregon. Or Reed. Or Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Columbia. Or U. of GA, Athens. Or UCLA. Or . . .

Yes they are they just hide it or you are in theater go talk to the sports teams.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't ask my kid the race of her friends. But I can tell from pics she has shared that two of her good friends appear to be black. Her first year roommate was too. She goes to Smith College.

So not diverse all the same.

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This question is strange. Do parents even tell their kids their career choices are based on diversity? And do you seriously think four years of college will change much, whether diversity is present or not? If a child has learned to adapt since childhood, they’ll likely succeed anywhere—including in the workplace.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is strange. Do parents even tell their kids their career choices are based on diversity? And do you seriously think four years of college will change much, whether diversity is present or not? If a child has learned to adapt since childhood, they’ll likely succeed anywhere—including in the workplace.

I do tell them they will be wiser if they can have diverse viewpoints to draw from. Diversity obviously makes the world a better place. Could you imagine if we only had American food to choose from, or 1 type of music or art... come one. it's not complicated.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is strange. Do parents even tell their kids their career choices are based on diversity? And do you seriously think four years of college will change much, whether diversity is present or not? If a child has learned to adapt since childhood, they’ll likely succeed anywhere—including in the workplace.

I think diversity matters more in certain careers. Not so much in engineering, but possibly more in education, business and communication.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, people like you are the worst. You like to collect other UMC people of different colors so you can tell yourself and others what a great person you are. In reality you would never be friends with the Korean who does your dry cleaning, the Honduran who does your yard work, or even the Ethiopian family who serves you food at your "favorite" Ethiopian restaurant that you go to so you can brag to your friends about how "worldly" you are. What you actually want are UMC people who live in the same size house as you, drive the same cars as you, and send their kids to the same private school as you. Do better!

It works both ways. Those people who you stereotyped into professions are probably not thinking they are going to be friends with OP who is paying them.

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Anonymous wrote:The OP has responded; not sure if she is still reading this.

In any event, from her responses it’s clear she is really trying to help her child to avoid whites / the MAGAs in college.

To op, I think your best bet would be to avoid flyover country (ie the Midwest) and also avoid the trend to consider schools in the South (and especially Florida!).

Focus on New England or California schools exclusively.

Reading r/AsianParentStories on Reddit, it feels like a lot of second-gen Asian kids end up going NC with their immigrant parents. Not sure if that group is actually the root cause 🙂 Just wild guess.

Because the immigrant parents are Maga?

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Anonymous wrote:Lame

State your race when you reply. I’m trying to see something

I answer “white, not Hispanic/latino” when asked. Why are you obsessed with race?

It’s funny when white people ask this question.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is strange. Do parents even tell their kids their career choices are based on diversity? And do you seriously think four years of college will change much, whether diversity is present or not? If a child has learned to adapt since childhood, they’ll likely succeed anywhere—including in the workplace.

I do tell them they will be wiser if they can have diverse viewpoints to draw from. Diversity obviously makes the world a better place. Could you imagine if we only had American food to choose from, or 1 type of music or art... come one. it's not complicated.

It depends. In my opinion, some countries are better off remaining homogeneous—it’s culture-based.

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Anonymous wrote:Lame

State your race when you reply. I’m trying to see something

I answer “white, not Hispanic/latino” when asked. Why are you obsessed with race?

“Hispanic” is anachronistic.

And I am going to need you to use Latinx instead; it’s more inclusive.