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[quote=CindyBindy][quote=Anonymous]

most of the Indian parents around here won't let their daughters date, let alone marry, outside their ethnic group.

All these threads about racism, I think the Indians must just be laughing at how we Americans beat ourselves up over this. They're like, so where do all the South Asians live? What? What's wrong with preferring your own group?[/quote]

I think there is a issue to address here, but it's not really as clear-cut as "living with your own group = disliking other groups". For example, in India the status quo for centuries was that people of different religious groups were really friendly with each other and did business with each other, but would never entertain the idea of marrying each other. It was like Separate But Equal, without the Jim Crow factor. That's carried over into modern India, but only to an extent.

All ethnic groups tend to self-segregate to an extent, however. Espeically minorities. If you ever visit Boston that's the first thing you'll notice. And many cities have historically had Jewish neighborhoods, Irish neighborhoods, Italian neighborhoods, etc. There will be a Chinatown everywhere. It just so happened that Indians immigrated to America largely after 1965, when there was a change in the immigration laws and America was in the grip of the civil rights movement, so actually Indians haven't segregated themselves that much. I know a lot of people in the Indian-American community and nobody has ever sought out Indian-only neighborhoods. They cared more about good school districts and low crime - and ended up in majority-white areas.[/quote]

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