Doesn't it annoy you that certain races people stick together?

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<p>Doesn't it annoy you that certain races people stick together?</p>

<p>I don't know. I don't really know how to explain it, but it really bugs me inside when certain groups of people stick to get. I think it's screaming "insecurity" whenever that happens -- and that they are afraid to branch out or something.</p>

<p>I'm a minority, and I branch out to different crowds of different races. I'm not completely secluded in the people of my own race.</p>

<p>Like I said, I know it's totally judgmental on my part and totally irrational. </p>

<p>But does anyone feel the same as me?</p>

<p>Please don't reply with mean comments, because this is a more of rant to get this off my chest rather that something that is racially driven. I mean no harm...</p>

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<p>I think people should hangout with whoever they want to hang out with - this is America gosh dang it.</p>

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<p>This was posted under “College Life” and I’m not in college yet lol. But yeah I totally agree with you! Things can be that way in even high school. I’m African American and hang out with a totally eclectic group of people but there’s definetly secluded groups of ethnicities that judge every other race and REFUSE to interact. But they say high school is a microcosm of society so I guess it’s like that everywhere…</p>

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<p>People tend to group by culture. It just so happens that sometimes it means they are grouping by race at the same time, because a cultural difference may happen to exist along racial lines. In electrical and computer engineering, everybody is a nerd, so there are no such racial divisions.</p>

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<p>Especially when they do it on purpose. </p>

<p>Or the miniorities that “think” they are white (won’t hang with others of their race). You know…the black kid that works at Orange Julius and wears Hollister?</p>

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<p>Lol. I am black and my boyfriend is white. We are totally not into “sticking with our races.” Not cool.</p>

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<p>I darn tootingly agree.</p>

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<p>Why does it bother you?</p>

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<h2>Or the miniorities that “think” they are white (won’t hang with others of their race). You know…the black kid that works at Orange Julius and wears Hollister? ~ Linkgx1</h2>

<p>So the black kid who has a job and wears “Hollister” is less black than a black kid who doesn’t work and wear baggy, ill-fitting clothes that are traditionally more “black” or “hood?”</p>

<p>Barrack Obama wears suits from Burberry, does that make him less black?</p>

<p>If you define who you are from clothes, where you work, eat, or shop - you have a very sad understand of culture.</p>

<p>MLK didn’t walk around like an idiot wearing FUBU, nor does Obama, nor does Jesse Jackson. Jackie Robinson always presented himself well, so did Willie Mays and Joe Louis.</p>

<p>Get your crap straight.</p>

<p>Black people did alot to overcome their color, finding culture in clothing that makes you look like an idiot isn’t doing a darn worth of good. Let people see you for who you are, not for what clothes you are wearing.</p>

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<p>Wow. Do you know how ignorant you sound?</p>

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<p>But those things do make up a portion of one’s culture, no?</p>

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<p>I agree with ladyjacket42’s response to this.</p>

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<p>No, they don’t. It’s pretty sad when people let some brand represent them as a person.</p>

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<h2>But those things do make up a portion of one’s culture, no? ~ CasaAtreides</h2>

<p>Your culture is your heritage, your history.</p>

<p>Culture is not found in baggy pants, white T’s, or any other fad started by some dumb rapper who just makes the black population look ignorant.</p>

<p>If black people want to be seen for their true person, their true nature, their true good, they need to stop modeling themselves after ignorant no-goods who just make us all look stupid.</p>

<p>Grow up. MLK wouldn’t be caught dead looking like these young fools you see today.</p>

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<p>Racism is a substantial issue still.</p>

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<p>But not exclusively.</p>

<p>I’m operating from this definition of culture:<br>
A culture is a way of life of a group of people–the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.</p>

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<p>…Well, that may be so, but that was not my point.</p>

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<p>That is not at all what I meant by my comment.</p>

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Oh please. If people want to be seen for their true person they should they wear what they want. And stop acting as is Martin Luther King is some god at which we should be judged by.</p>

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<p>I had a feeling that an argument would start over this topic…</p>

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<p>or bill cosby for that matter</p>

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<p>Yeah I totally agree… it’s the same with Asians trying to be white, who absolutely refuse to hang out with other Asians. Like I said, it doesn’t affect me and it may offend some but I think it’s sending the wrong message – “I’m too good to hang out with my own kind” or something along those lines.</p>

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<p>Like this Asian girl who moved to my school during mid-year…</p>

<p>Before she even said a word, I already knew which “crowd” she would belong to. And I was dead right too. I can’t really pinpoint what the issue is, but I’m sure it has to do with insecurity – the insecurity that’s preventing them from branching out and experiencing new things.</p>