<p>I know that there's bound to be racists everywhere, but Durham is in the South. Now I also know that may a stereotype, but I've never been there myself so I couldn't really tell. Have any minority students encountered any form of racism at all? thanks.</p>
<p>I have been worried about this too. The truth is most collge universities are "segregated" by the students themselves. Of course the school doesn't condone racism but sometimes people are just most comfortable with their own. In truth I would love to go to Duke just so I could laugh at the racists. It's such a pointless belief system really and I pity anyone who believes it.
My friend currently attends Duke, she will be transfering next year for many reasons ine of which is the racism. Of course, being from LA like me, she just might not be used to it because we grew up in an environment so different from that of the South. Everything about college is going to be a transition, idealogic environment included. GL</p>
<p>I give special preference to Asian women. That's about as racist as I get.</p>
<p>Racism is dying here in the South with our generation. Durham is part of the research triangle which has a LOT of outside, Northern/Western influence. I seriously question the reasoning behind someone transferring from Duke because of racist issues.</p>
<p>Also, racism is different in different parts of the South. Here in predominantly white east TN, other cultures and races are a curiosity, not an object of hatred. Is that racism?</p>
<p>In her book Rachel Toor did mention that the staff refer to Duke as "the plantation".</p>
<p>The plantation is an easy joke, I guess. Durham is 47% black, Duke 11%.</p>
<p>LOL. Durham is not racist. At least, not more so than anywhere else. Like greenshirt said, it has a healthy minority population. Also, Durham has NC Central University which has mostly AA's. Racism no, self-segregation possibly. I'm not a minority, but I've lived in North Carolina all my life and have come across true racism only rarely. As a matter of fact, Duke was ranked first recently by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.</p>
<p>I'm from NC and from what I've heard from local students attending Duke---there are many more northerners than southerners there. If there is any racism (which I've never heard of) don't blame it on the South!</p>
<p>Having spent a significant amount of time in both the north and the south, though I've spent most my life in New England, and coming from a north-south split family, I must say it kind of annoys me when people from the north talk about the south being racist and worry about like how socially conscious the south is and like say things like "southern culture is an oxymoron" (Rachel Toor!). They're really unenlightened if they actually think that, not to mention stuck up and self righteous. Anyways I must say that racism is a nationwide problem, and I can guarantee you that every single human being has prejudice, it just rears its ugly head in different ways, at different times and with differing degrees of visibility. So I'd just wish people would acknowledge that more often and stop acting like racism is a southern disease or something.</p>
<p>Well put! 10 char.....</p>
<p>2 things i heard while at duke:</p>
<p>1) People from the south will tell you that Duke has a northern flavor while those from the north will say it's a southern campus</p>
<p>2) Duke is very diverse (over 85 countries represented)</p>
<p>That being said, i don't see much of a problem with racisim. </p>
<p>still, durham scares me. i'm from a bubble.</p>
<p>a bubble? please explain</p>
<p>I suppose it's more southern than the north, and more northern than the south. Basically, it's in the middle?</p>
<p>Then why isn't it in Charlottesville? <bg></bg></p>
<p>Charlottesville is Southern dude. :p</p>
<p>According the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Duke was the most diverse of the leading universities:</p>
<p>As for racism, take a look at yourself:</p>
<p><a href="https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/%5B/url%5D">https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/</a></p>
<p>I'm from a very small, sheltered town. Therefore, it is a bubble.</p>
<p>got it 10char</p>
<p>im a minority.. (indian... ) no racism encountered at duke</p>