<p>Im south asian i want to make sure ill be comfortable there. Are there alot of us down there? Alot of people told me its white dominated down tehre</p>
<p>There are a lot of South Asian students. I have some friends who are Indian. I am not aware of discrimination against Indians, but I can't speak for Indian students. I have never heard of them complaining about discrimination or discussing it.</p>
<p>I'm Indian, but I'm admittedly not big on my heritage (get mistaken for Latina quite a bit, FWIW). The worst kind of stereotyping I've encountered is that everyone thinks I'm either an engineer or pre-med - and then when they hear econ, they automatically think i-banking. That's really it.</p>
<p>There's also a really big South Asian students association called DIYA. Like the bad Indian I am, I've never been to any of their events, but they host things like mixers for freshmen and apparently a lot of other stuff during the year. Not really my thing, although thanks to parental pressure I might give it a shot next year.</p>
<p>Well North Carolina as a state doesnt have many asians (though there are a decent number in chapel hill)... but Duke has loads of em... like over 10% or something? definately larger percentage than the country as a whole.</p>
<p>I'm indian and i'm going</p>
<p>i know a few indians who are going right now they havent had any problems with it. and duke currently has 300 indian students</p>
<p>I think it's pretty absurd how much I've seen on this site about Duke's purportedly unique issues with interracial interaction or discrimination or what not. Duke has relatively more students of different ethnic backgrounds than practically all the other top schools in the country (10-12% Black, 7% Latino, >20% Asian, and increasing with every class), and the self-segregation that does occur is by no means unique (MIT's Chocolate City, Stanford's Ujamaa, Wesleyan's Malcolm X House...). I believe it's somewhat amplified socially by the Greek system but, to be honest, the extent to which you will have a diverse group of friends is really up to you. Duke gets a bad rep because students here do not for the most part try to sell an unrealistic portrayal of the school, unlike the situation at a lot of other schools with more insecure undergrads. The fact that people here talk about issues with self-segregation is a good thing. (Check out <a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32777%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32777</a> to see example of another school with the cajones to actually address the issue.) If you wanna go to a school where people are living in a fairyland of political correctness, this isn't the place to be. If you want to actually deal with issues that are omnipresent in the real world and, as a result, be a much stronger person then I'd encourage you to take a closer look at the place.</p>
<p>i'm indian, female, and going.
wasn't a problem when i visited.</p>
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The worst kind of stereotyping I've encountered is that everyone thinks I'm either an engineer or pre-med
Hey now! I resemble (half) that remark!</p>
<p>Haha. Sorry Dr. G, but when your Indian relatives keep introducing you to others by saying "even though she's not going into medicine or engineering, she's smart, really!" you start to resent that particular stereotype. :p</p>
<p>And dude, did you just call me 'bananainmypyjamas?' LOL.</p>
<p>"bananainmypyjamas"</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Sorry, I just had to second that.</p>
<p>So, one trick a professor can use upon making (or especially being caught in) a mistake is to announce that he or she was just checking to see if anyone is paying attention... </p>
<p>In this case, however, I really do apologize for that.</p>