<p>I went to a private prep school and minorities made up like ten percent of the student body. In my grade, there were like two Latinos, ten blacks, four Asians. The other 184 students in my grade were white (and, not kidding you here, probably 70% blonde and blue-eyed. There were more blonde/blue eyed Caucasian kids than brunette/brown-eyed Caucasian kids).</p>
<p>I didn't have many problems being a minority there (I'm Asian)-- but sometimes people were very racist. It usually wasn't particularily "malicious"-- they simply didn't know how racist they were being. Also, this racism just wasn't from white kids, but also black kids. </p>
<p>Here's the question: What's your high school like? Did/do you come from a racially diverse high school? What's the experience been like-- are kids mostly clique-y and stick with their own "kind", or are diverse groups of friends established?</p>
<p>I noticed a lot of other Asian students on College Confidential come from hs's with a large Asian population. I always wondered what that would have been like, instead of going to a school in which I stuck out like hell.</p>
<p>My high school is a small (about 80 people in my grade), southern, private, elitist school in Arkansas. Yeah, Arkansas. It's a good school, we've had people go to the Ivies and other top-tier colleges.</p>
<p>The school is definitely NOT diverse at all. I'm Asian and there are about five in my grade, and two in the honors classes. The rest are rich,conservative, and white. I am truly secluded over here.</p>
<p>School is like: The school is definitely clique-y. All the kids drive in their BMWs and Merecedez Benzs (ok not all, but many) and their new cars and only hang around with other people that have as much money as them</p>
<p>My exprience: It has been rough. I have been many times excluded from things. It is definitely not that fun at all. I'm hoping college will be a lot better.</p>
<p>The problem with the South is that they put on a fascade and act like they like you and will interact with you, but truthfully, they don't want to. When I used to live in Buffalo, NY , at least the kids would tell me straight-up what they though about me (and then when they actually talked to me, some of them actually liked me). It is a sort of subtle racism that occurs, and occurs because we are high school students and we subconcioussly do this</p>
<p>My school is quite big - 2500.
And VERY diverse.</p>
<p>people from HEAPS of difernt countries. Some of the people I personally know are from - Norway, Portugal, France, Uzakebizan (sp??? i dunt even kno how it's pronounced), Canada and Czechaslovakia (sp?).</p>
<p>And we had this flag pagent at school and there's like 87 countries represented in our school. One stat I remember is 41% are Chinese..</p>
<p>Few racism comments toward mostly Chinese students ('geeky asians'). But not much for Korean students because they are considrered the 'cool asians' - the rich, beautiful (hair and skin!!) and relaxed asians lol.</p>
<p>There are not many black people. Actually I think there's only 4.. And no one messes with them because they are 'black' and 'from the hood' (lol!!) - even though 2 are very geeky...</p>
<p>No one talks about financial wealth. Our suburb is the 'rich suburb' but it doesn't matter when someone is really poor because no one cares about how much money anyone has because it's just.. money and it's the adult's money, not ours.. so it's not important.
lol and every second car on the road is either a BMW, Lexus or a Merc. </p>
<p>And our school is definetly not cliquey. Yes there are 'groups' and the social hierachy but everyone interacts with each other. But there's sometimes alot of backstabbing.</p>
<p>I think my hs is fairly relaxed. I might have a culture shock when I move to U.S</p>
<p>hahaha my high school had almost zero diversity. It was a private school in southern Orange County. Almost everyone was Catholic or protestant, white (there were very very few minority students), conservative (like their parents), and extremely wealthy. It was unfortunate in some ways, but it was definitely indicative of the demographics of the area in which I lived.</p>
<p>My high school briefly had a student chapter of the Aryan Nation, so you can guess where this is going.</p>
<p>It was (well, is, but I'm not there anymore) a California public. </p>
<p>They don't publish their enrollment statistics in any easy to find place, but greatschools.com says that we're 81% white (plus 3% mixed/no response), 13% Hispanic and 1% or less of everything else. It is <em>very</em> cliquey, though nice cars aren't really the norm (just really nice houses; parents won't give mountain kids really nice cars for school). The cliques break apart in the honors and AP classes, however, which is really interesting to me in a social-dynamic kind of way.</p>
<p>My school is very diverse - being that I live in S. Florida. Its like 40% white, 30% black, 20% hispanic, 10% Asian. I think that the diversity is actually one of the best attributes of the school.</p>
<p>my school has around 2000 students and is mainly white and mexican. most honors classes (where I usually am) are white, a few mexicans, and a couple blacks. I'm the only asian in all my classes. see a couple of other asians in the hall (there's even a Chinese foreign exchange student). </p>
<p>I don't FEEL excluded, but then again I am not very observant. When I was younger people would make idiotic racial comments 4 fun, but now they are primarily that I study a lot (nerdy Asian). I am the openly friendly type so no one treats me badly.</p>
<p>My school is 100% Caucasian -- oh yeah, did I mention I'm homeschooled? (Would be cool if I was biracial, though. "My class is half Caucasian, half Asian, and I'm the only student in it!")</p>
<p>My high school has about 2500 students, and it is extremely diverse. We have white students, black students, hispanic students, Native American students...We have "International Week" every year where students from different countries set up booths. We had students from Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Russia, Germany, Austria, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Italy, Poland, Pakistan, India, Greece, Egypt...and several others that I forgot. If you go to my high school's [url=<a href="http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/allschools/independence/index.htm%5Dwebsite%5B/url">http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/allschools/independence/index.htm]website[/url</a>], you can see the flags in our mall that show the countries represented at my school (you might have to refresh the page a couple of times).</p>
<p>My school is small (250) and very diverse. Just about every color under the rainbow has a spot here. It's about 40% non-white, which isn't all that much, but in that 40% is just about everything - black, thai, hispanic, chinese, japanese, vietnamese, sri lankan, african, tons of others I've forgotten about. I'd say 20% are black and then the other 20% is like one or two people per ethnicity...</p>
<p>i go to a public school of over 2600 students. the student body is like 98% black; not very diverse racially. Though, there are a lot of bi- and multi-racial people.</p>
<p>my school is pretty diverse, out of 1600 kids about 75% white, 20% asian (including myself), the remaining 5% african americans. my school is pretty affluent as one look in the parking lot will find you MANY audis, bimmers, acuras, lexus, etc... numerous rich people such as martin brodeur (goalie of the nj devils) byron scott (ex-nets coach), david tepper (tepper school of business) all live in my town and that definitely shows. many of the kids in my school are stuck up and flaunt expensive clothing, shoes, jewelry, etc....and its not just the caucasian kids but some of the asian kids are a bit stuck up too.</p>
<p>Private prep school in Silicon Valley in California.
Uh...35% Korean/Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese/etc
35% Indian (from INDIA, not Native Americans)
25% Caucasian
The other 5% is other...we have about 8 African Americans, 8 Hispanics...etc.</p>
<p>The Asians hang out with Asians, Indians with Indians, etc. I mean, theres mixing but if you walked on the campus you will notice all groups by their races. Of course, there's the "Cool Asians" and "Cool Indians" and "Cool Other kids" and then there's the nerdy ones... I wouldn't say there's any cliques though...too small and nerdy of a school to have any.</p>
<p>It's similar here, though we prefer the term "a bunch of rednecks."</p>
<p>There are about five African Americans that go here in a school of 2200. There's a sizeable Latino population, though it is fairly underrepresented. As for Asians, there are a handful, but the school is vastly populated with boring Caucasians.</p>
<p>I noticed several of you referring to your mostly white schools as "white trash" or "boring" or negative things around those extents. </p>
<p>Don't say that. You can't help it if you're school isn't multi-cultural-- it doesn't mean that it's exactly boring. You can't help if you're school is homogenous, and in most cases being homogenous doesn't reflect on the "quality" of the individual students in the school population. Being overwhelmingly white doesn't mean being boring or negative, LOL.</p>
<p>Unless I am not reading carefully enough and you guys are in schools in which racism is rampant-- in that case, it would be fair to call your classmates "rednecks" or "white trash"...?</p>