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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My perspective--

I see it as my job to prepare my children for tomorrow's world. Tomorrow's world is increasingly brown. We are white and have a comfortable HHI, Ivy League education, and I didn't want my kids raised like I was-- knowing hardly any black people or Hispanic people.

So we chose a close in diverse neighborhood in NE DC. We send our kids to a very diverse charter school. By choice and by happenstance, because where we love makes this easy-- 
- our kids' pediatricians are AA women running their own practice
- our kids' dentist is an AA woman 
- our kids' principle is an AA woman
- our kids' music teacher is an AA man
- and of course our kids' President is an AA man

We have neighbors who are gay married men.

Diversity and tolerance are core values in our lives. We chose a place that helps us live that, and that helps prepare our children for the diverse, vibrant world they will be living in.[/quote]

Seems that you turned out okay despite your upbringing. [b]Do you think you were limited in your personal/professional development by the lack of diversity experienced as a kid?
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In general, kids who are not brought up to be assholes don't turn out as assholes. It's not the diversity of the environment, but the content of the upbringing. [/quote]Different poster here.  I posted about this upthread so sorry for repeating myself but I grew up in a wealthy white town and I was afraid of people who weren't just like me.  For awhile I lived in Georgetown and I used to be afraid driving my car east of the park.  Later I got more comfortable east of the park when I saw how ridiculous it was to be afraid of some of those neighborhoods but I was still afraid to drive east of the river.  Well, I moved into an AA neighborhood that was a mix of people from very poor up to lower-middle-class and saw how crazy it was to be afraid of that neighborhood.  Then I tutored a kid who lived east of the river and I had to drive her home after tutoring.  Driving east of the river on a regular basis made me realize how crazy it was to be afraid to go over there.

So yeah, maybe I wasn't an asshole from growing up in my exclusive (but lovely) town but I was afraid of things and people that I didn't need to fear and it limited my freedom.  I still see that fear in friends of mine who haven't spent much time in urban mixed neighborhoods and I see how it limits their freedom.  I did not want that for my kid.  [/quote]

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