<p>I heard from a few students who graduated Princeton that the student body was and still is racially segregated (i.e Chinese with Chinese, Caucasians with Caucations and Africans Americans with African Americans in general). </p>
<p>This bothers me becuase i am currently enrolled in a international school outside of the US where race is not an issue. When i voiced my concerns to my friends in the US, they told me that this kind of segregation in highschool was actually taken as a the 'norm'. </p>
<p>Am i right in assuming that the majority of Princeton kids are absolutly happy becuase</p>
<p>1) racial segregation is in general seen as the norm...(majority of student do not even notice it)</p>
<p>2) the majority of students from outside the united states who are admitted are quiet and conservative kids who prefer to be with their 'own people'/ couldn't care less as long as they can sit in a room quietly and study.</p>
<p>What concerns me even more is that fact that the faculty/administration know of this and are not proactive...</p>
<p>I was told by an alumni from my school who graduated Princeton that her bf was called a 'chinq' in one of the dining clubs (c****** club) and when he reported the incident, nothing was done about it. That is to say, the low-life who had to resort to pathetic racial slander was let off the hook... (he must have had a influential father...)</p>
<p>I have always had this image of Princeton as the heavenly place...
This new bit of information that could be very wrong and yet makes logical sense distrubs me greatly.</p>
<p>As far as I've seen, this doesn't really happen. Also, Cottage people are known to be... not normal. :p</p>
<p>My roommate went to an international school for five years, actually. She is by no means quiet and room-bound, and neither are any of the other international students I've met through her. In fact, they're very friendly and outgoing -- I've even had a couple of them proclaim their love for me (in a joking manner) before they even met me. Haha they're very cool.</p>
<p>The only place I'd think this kind of segregation occurs is among the graduate students. The majority of graduate students at Princeton are international, so I've noticed that there's a kind of clumping among Eastern European graduate students... but then again that could simply be that most of our Russian grad students come here to study math or physics and they're just clumping within their own deptartment.</p>
<p>I've actually been impressed by the degree to which there aren't hard-and-fast lines between different ethnicities on campus. You see many multi-racial couples, for instance, and this doesn't seem to be an issue the way it is elsewhere. That's not to say that there's no self-segregation, but that it's not absolute, and it's not politically charged the way it is in other contexts.</p>
<p>to be honest, what do you want the university to do when someone uses a racial slur? There is only an extent to which they can flex their power..it is the student body that should help prevent this from happening, not the university, imho</p>
<p>Self-segregation on voluntary basis is common on many american campuses. Please read the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights - freedom of association is a basic right in America</p>