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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just being honest, the Indian kids at my DD’s high school only sat with one another at school. They spoke in Hindu to each other. They weren’t allowed to hang around with “other” kids outside of school, let alone date them. [/quote]

I grew up in this area in the late 90s & graduated from HS in 00.  It was that way even back then.

Asians hung out with Asians and dated Asians. 
Indians hung out and dated Indians.
Black kids hung out and dated Black kids.  
Jewish kids hung out and dated the other Jews.
The segment that was the most broken up was the white kids.  Within the white kids you had the smart white kids, ghetto white kids, band geeks, theater nerds, stoners, rich white kids, jocks, etc. But again, those segments didn't interact with each other or date each other.  [/quote]

There were hints of that at my northern Va high school in the late 90s, but it wasn’t that clear cut. I’m white and my two best friends were Korean and Black. We also had kids who were hispanic, Iranian, and a couple other white kids in our larger friend group of 10 or so.

But then I went to college and it was weird. All of the clubs and organizations and even some “interest houses” were intentionally divided straight down race and culture lines. It just seemed like segregation to me. [/quote]

Is it still like this? It doesn't seem to be the case in elementary school but we still go to a pretty international school.  [/quote]

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