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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My experience is that the study body segregates based on identity so people hang out with people like themselves.  It's not a cohesive community.[/quote]

I think this is a weird comment to make about UCLA specifically because I've never been in a community where this isn't the case (my college, my jobs, church, my kids' schools, etc).  It's human nature for people to segregate based on identity. It is very hard if not impossible to get authentic mixing of cultures and races on any sort of large scale.

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I'd attended a smaller university before UCLA and students of all backgrounds joined groups and socialized based on interests.  There were dance groups, outdoors clubs, chess clubs, triathlon clubs, etc.  At UCLA, every group started with identity and not interests.  Even lab partners wouldn't speak with each other if they weren't of the same background.  I found it super weird.

Even student elections were all about getting other students of your religion/culture/race/heritage to turn out to vote for the candidate of the same background to push resources towards those students groups.  It was super divisive.  [/quote]

Were you a transfer to UCLA? How recently did you attend? [/quote]
I was a graduate student.  My experience is that UCLA undergrads had never had another college experience and would accept everything as normal. They didn't question that professors were unavailable, there was zero advising or that many classes were impossible to get into.  They also didn't question things like shortages of lab supplies. I had another college experience to compare to and I was routinely astounded what UCLA students accepted as normal.[/quote]

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