<p>Oh gawd. This is about vote fraud. Not racial representation on television. Please get a life. </p>
<p>Our country is losing credibility all over the world right now. War is not the answer to regain leadership. Restoring faith and purity to the Virgin Democracy is the answer. Bush has prostituted Democracy long enough. We want Democracy back, we want to make her/him good again.</p>
<p>Lol @ athlonmj. Yes, Chris Matthews had better watch out!</p>
<p>edit: I seriously doubt the Snoop Dogg jokes were racially motivated.</p>
<p>The comic farce continues. <em>grabs popcorn and e-croissants</em></p>
<p>I think cali's just seeking entertainment for the night. yes, keep pulling things out of thin air. Nothing good was on TV tonight, so continuez!</p>
<p>I'm declaring war on Texas on Rice and UT forums right now. =) sorry kiddies, would love to stay and chat, but duty calls.</p>
<p>Oh, but surely "war is not the answer to regain leadership," right? You crack me up :)</p>
<p>Haha, busted by Kebree</p>
<p>All in a day's work... <em>tips hat to athlonmj</em></p>
<p>We must do what we can to protect the Virgin Democracy from being Prostituted by Bush.</p>
<p>Surely, you do not approve of prostitution do you?</p>
<p>Infidels! all of you! We Californians shall not depend on a foreigner for our state security!</p>
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<p>^ The BBC! You are the BBC! You infidel!</p>
<p>The sky is falling, no?</p>
<p>im so confused....</p>
<p>to think, i consider myself a political junkie. where the F has there been vote fraud? and why didnt i hear about? and why is this guy talking about it? and why do californians care about texas?</p>
<p>ahahahahaha im so confused! thank god princeton will be educating me.</p>
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<p>Not from what I read & heard. Apparently Princeton is self-segregated, people choose not to mix, groups stick to themselves... But I'd also be curious to learn what the <em>actual</em> situation is from those who are at Princeton. Mzhang - perhaps you could clear this one up for us?</p>
<p>Well, racial polarization occurs because people find more in common with others of their own ethnicity and are often more comfortable. It happens at every school, but there are definitely people who cross boundaries.</p>
<p>My best friends at the school are very diverse. I tend to make friends with people based on common interests we share, not skin color. Unfortunately, there are definitely many people who just choose to stick with people like themselves. Overall, I haven't found it that polarized, because freshman are new and want to meet as many people as possible.</p>
<p>Social-class wise, it's actually quite hard to tell who's in what socioeconomic class unless they start flaunting really expensive items. But even super-rich people will just wear tshirts and jeans, so I haven't found it that pronounced. At my high school, it was no mystery who was rich: all I had to do was to look for the polo horse or the lacoste alligator on their oxford shirts. I haven't encountered any diehard preppies here who will never wear anything but a polo shirt. We're college students, and everyone dons sweatshirts and tshirts sometimes (or always, as in my case).</p>
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<p>Democracy isn't just being prostituted by Bush... the Democrats are just as responsible for becoming corporate slaves and handing out billions to them in the past 20 years at the expense of our government and our citizens.</p>
<p>Nader has quite a detailed history of that in one chapter of his book Crashing the Party. Highly engaging read.</p>
<p>...and Nader = Princeton grad. </p>
<p>Bush = Yale grad, so go bother the Yalies ;)</p>
<p>If freeing millions from an oppressive dictator is "prostituting democracy", then I suppose Bush is guilty as charged...</p>
<p>One thing you will learn, California, is if you are lucky enough to come to Princeton you will learn that political debate at places like this is a little more high level than repeating the same old rhetoric</p>
<p>most people that I know here, on both sides of the aisle, are able to make clear, coherent and sensible arguments for either party because they are well-informed and choose not to lower themselves to the national common political denominator, which has become in the last 4-ish years decidely anti-intellectual, on both sides, from top to bottom</p>
<p>in addition to many other things, the best part of princeton (and prob. most very selective U's) is that they give you the ability to completely understand and be able to argue in favor of the other side's position while 100% disagreeing with it....</p>
<p>:eek:</p>
<p>i cracked up for at least 5 minutes!! The Return of the California1600.</p>
<p>CC guys are upgrading... waste their money...and yours =P</p>
<p>When I visited Princeton, I saw so much Lacoste ... Also, a couple people at Pton that I know of right now aren't having a good time at Pton. That school just does have a good reputation from where I'm from, deserved or undeserved.</p>
<p>I found that Princeton had a lot of self segregation, although it is certainly not uncommon for people to be close friends with people of other races, it seems more common to be close friends with people of the same race and friendly acquantences with people from different races. This is something that disapointed me about Princeton, although I think it is common at other schools. </p>
<p>I did not notice much segregation based on socio-economic class, but it is possible that I just didn't notice it.</p>