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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's more of a class thing than race thing. Lower class people shun upper class people when they assume they won't be accepted into the upper clas society. [/quote]

I agree with this. It is very similar to what goes on in Hispanic groups (if you are into intellectual things you are often teased and even bullied). [/quote]
Do you know how you all sound? Making the underlying assumption that the African child is higher class and intellectual…and the black American students are all poor and  anti intellectual and bullying her because of that. It’s a lot of bias tied up in these statements [/quote]

No one specified who belonged to which social class, but socioeconomics does play a part in intraracial relations.[/quote]

This is OP - just to be clear, the Black American girls seem to be from middle class/upper middle class backgrounds - and there are definitely some from some very well heeled families. It is not a poor/rich thing. I really think it is just cultural. It happens with me and other Black American women sometimes - it is just not my day to day experience so it doesn’t impact me. My DD understandably is not as tuned into Black American culture (and doesn’t have to be) but I believe that shouldn’t close the door to potential friendship and/or socialization.  [/quote]

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