<p>people are going to gravitate towards people who look, speak, and dress like them even within a race no matter what. it's a comfort thing</p>
<p>Gracilisae, you are absolutely right.</p>
<p>I also agree with you, ivyleaguechamp. But the purpose of college is to challenge people to step out of their comfort zones, not reinforce them.</p>
<p>Part of the reason why there's racial segregation is because the college makes such a big deal about it. Like athena said, if everyone weren't so conscious of racial differences all the time, there wouldn't be such tension. In fact, I think the idea of an African-Latino-Asian-(insert minority)-American group is stupid anyways. If you want to learn African drumming, take African drumming lessons, or go meet someone who is African and knows how. To have to accept the entire culture just to learn a certain part of it is, in my opinion, a contrived and artificial categorization.</p>
<p>The viewbook practically screamed "WE'RE DIVERSE" and kinda put me off by paying special attention to this special interest housing. I've been keeping track of The Dartmouth and The Review but haven't seen anything new lately. What's the prognosis for the future and what is the administration planning on doing?</p>
<p>I agree with the general consensus which is that there's self-segregation, but no tension between races.</p>
<p>Anyway, athenaNY is absolutely right when she said that the college brings it upon themselves by having like 87 groups for black people and then you can't question it or else you're considered racist. This is extremely sad.</p>