<p>Seeing how Bowdoin is trying to recruit diversity and all that jazz, it has been a curiosity of mine:</p>
<p>Are Bowdoin’s students racially segregated? (as in asians hang out with asians, aftrican american students, etc etc)?</p>
<p>Because you can still be diverse yet segregated.</p>
<p>That's something I would like to know as well. I mean integration is something that is more harder to achieve than having diverse demographics. But then again, diversity could also mean things beyond your skin color, ethnic background, and race. It could also mean your political ideologies, religous background, sexual orientation, or financial background. With that in mind, I think Bowdoin integrates well in that aspect.</p>
<p>I think that there is a fair amount of self-imposed segregation amongst students. The vast majority of my Asian roommate's friends are Asian.</p>
<p>As far as money, religion, sexuality and political views go, there is not a noticable divide at all.</p>
<p>Honestly it feels like Bowdoin tries too hard to get a lot of ethnic diversity, it can be construed as a bit patronizing at times. At the beginning of this year the admin. sent out invites to a "Colored and Multicultural Dinner" which was a bit misguided and patronizing in their attempts for diversity. There's self segregation to an extent, but not so much and if there is there is no tension. It seems like the administration is more concerned with diversity than the students, everyone seems to get along anyways without any officiating multicultural events. Bowdoin integrates extremely well along socioeconomic divides it seems to me.</p>
<p>yea, but i don't think bowdoin is the exception in trying to diversify their campus...i mean to a certain extent diversity is a work in progress and many other elite colleges in the United States are struggling with this, so it's nothing new</p>