<p>I'm guessing that many people will either say yes or no, so to what degree do you think race-mingling happens at colleges?</p>
<p>Sorta… Different races usaually like to throw rocks at eachother. If that counts as mingling then yes they do. </p>
<p>Other than that, there’s not much interaction between different races. They sometimes yell racial slurs at eachother and such, but this is less frequent because it’s not as fun as rock throwing. </p>
<p>My answer is sarcastic because your question is stupid.</p>
<p>well obviously it seems stupid to you, but i haven’t been to college yet, and you see that is why im asking the question…</p>
<p>No, everybody is still pis.sed off at each other.
So it’s a lot of glaring and hissing when somebody of another race walks by.</p>
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<p>LMAO.</p>
<p>But I mean op it really depends, I guess if you were going to like BJU or something maybe they wouldn’t but besides that generally they do.</p>
<p>For example, I’m black so of my close friends come from Australia, Greece, Florida, Hong Kong, Japan and France, and those are just the ones off the top of my head.</p>
<p>This is why it is important to have diversity in a campus. No one sets out thinking “I’m going to make a/an (insert racial or ethnic group here) friend today.” Instead, you meet people through classes, in the dorms, or through friends and it happens naturally. If the student body is diverse, then mingling between groups occurs naturally, as it should.</p>
<p>I can’t believe this kind of question is still being asked. It’s 2009 folks.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>The question was horribly worded. People of different races do talk to eachother and befriend eachother. However, there is self segregation at many large universities. For example, I’m Indian and would say half of my close friends are Indian and a good number of my acquaintances are Indian. It just sort of happens. If you are a minority it’s a little easier in a completely new situation to start a conversation with someone who looks like you (at least I found this to be true). Also, if you join a cultural club or group (i.e. X country/region club or Y type of ethnic dance) then many of the people you interact with will be of your ethnicity. I wouldn’t say most people enter college saying “all of my friends are going to be my race” but it sort of happens with the activities you join.</p>
<p>thank you, venkat, for being straightforward and answering the question. i like how your answer was very informative</p>
<p>YMMV though. I know people who want nothing to do with their cultural/ethnic/race stuff. I know others who come to college and make it their life. Personally, I’ve found that my friends in highschool were a lot more diverse (Indian, White, Jewish, Asian, Hispanic, African, etc.) while in college almost all of my friends are either Indian, White, or Jewish.</p>
<p>No, because in college, any race other than white must sit in the back of the classroom. Some of the “hippy” schools might let other races into the same dining facilities, but not the same dorms or anything. That would be isanity.</p>
<p>Eh, I’m a little late on the sarcasm, but I was bored.</p>
<p>^ You must go to one of those “Heal the World” schools. They don’t even let non-whites share the same classroom as whites, here.
And since I’m only half-white, they’ve made me position my desk halfway in the hall.</p>
<p>Oh, no. How do you know which drinking fountain you’re allowed to use?
I’m half Hispanic, which isn’t technically a race, so would I have to just stand in the back corner? I mean, I can’t possibly be allowed to sit like the whites right?</p>
<p>Hey, 1865 was a great year. A lot of stuff happened…I think.</p>
<p>I don’t know, I’m not allowed to hear the entire lecture in my history class. :(</p>
<p>And no, I’m not allowed to use the water fountain - not even half of me. I just walk around campus parched.</p>
<p>Can we take a sip from the white fountain, or should it be from the Aisan fountain? As long as it’s not the black fountain.</p>
<p>I’ve been getting that same feeling. It’s fun to antagonize them, but a little scary that people still think like that.</p>
<p>I’m from NY too, and the weirdest feeling I ever had was going to see a school in like southern Virginia and walking into a McDonald’s near it. There wasn’t one person who wasn’t white. It was so bad that me and my mother (who is my Hispanic parent) actually felt uncomfortable eating there because people were looking at us.</p>
<p>Oh, they don’t allow Asians into the school at all. </p>
<p>Blacks are allowed, but they can’t breathe the same air as whites. </p>
<p>Middle Easterns are allowed, but they have to keep their eyes closed and plug their ears during lectures…that’s if the professor is feeling nice enough to allow them into the room. And even then, they have to sit on a floor and act as an ottoman for the whites.</p>
<p>And then we mixed people, all crowd in the doorway and try to keep only half of ourselves in.</p>
<p>I don’t know how it works for the half white/half Asian people, though.</p>
<p>I guess they would stand in the entrance of the school halfway, not of the lecture halls.</p>
<p>I don’t know, in my college, there is a tremendous amount of self-segregation.</p>
<p>Haha, the sarcasm is hilarious, a little overdone though. Diversity, not just race but all sort of diversity, is something I am looking forward to when I transfer. I come from a neighborhood where everybody is white and most of the time they are ignorant of anybody that is different. Too bad I’ll have to keep my ears plugged during lectures since I am middle eastern. I was really looking forward to hearing these university lectures.</p>