<p>So I know that this question has been asked before, but I haven't yet seen a complete answer, so thought I would ask again:</p>
<p>I know that there is a very diverse population at Emory, but I've read that the school's demographics to mix too much.</p>
<p>Do Emory students agree with this? </p>
<p>I am personally a student who goes to a residential school, and I have a very diverse friend group (In many respects). If it is your temperment to go out and meet a lot of different types of people, is it easy to do so?</p>
<p>Are people generally open-minded and diverse in their opinions/thoughts as well?</p>
<p>What do you mean by " but I’ve read that the school’s demographics to mix too much"?</p>
<p>don’t*</p>
<p>On other message boards/college websites, it is said that many students don’t venture far outside of their own racial group.</p>
<p>Can you shed some light on the validity of this?</p>
<p>I don’t know about other people, but I do. I’m African American and way less than half of my closer friends are black. A great deal of my friends are Indian (as in more of those than black friends), and a few are white or Asian. Most of the Indian and Asian students tend to hang out with each other or white students. However, in certain social settings like the DUC or sometimes the computing center, you’ll see some self-segregation I guess in terms of seating. However, you’ll notice that they often do interact with others. In general, the most “true” self-segregating groups are international students, which makes sense if you ask me. Also, I’ll admit that African/African Americans do it a bit too mainly because of the amount of organizations that cater to us (actually those who are African tend to interact with those of other ethnicity more than “African Americans”. And Africans seem more plentiful than AAs ). Emory has an abnormal amount of international students, so they can often skew the picture more than African Americans. If you actually come check us out, you may be surprised if you look closely enough. I know a lot of people come visit Emory with this notion/pre-conception that it is very self-segregated so they probably observe what they want to observe (basically they really only pay attention to scenes that verify the stereotype).</p>
<p>What is the DUC? And this is a lot of great information. I go to a residential high school that is has demographic numbers similar to Emory’s (high Asian, 50% white, decent black population) and I have no problem having a very diverse group of friends.</p>
<p>I wanted to get the vibe that it is not too hard to branch out and meet other people, and that there is both cultural and intellectual/situational diversity throughout the campus.</p>
<p>The DUC is the Dobbs University Center. It’s a big building where there is the main cafeteria, offices a mail room and other things.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s pretty easy if you want to. I think those who don’t tend to do it are those who grew up in much less diverse neighborhoods, countries, or attended less diverse high schools (either in terms of ethnicity, socioeconomics or both). And it’s probably not about not wanting to, it may be more about fear of rejection. Again, the trend is for Asian and Indian students to hang out with each other or white students which makes sense since most of the Asian and Indian Americans are more than likely somewhat assimilated with whites (no offense) because they perhaps grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. However, I notice that there are a ridiculous amount of exceptions to this rule at Emory mainly because they attend college at an extremely diverse school, so it’s simply time for them to broaden their social horizons. Normally their ties to say, URMs, may start academically, and from there it’ll grow into a friendship.</p>