<p>My favorite is “Oh you can tan?” “Yea… I’m human.”</p>
<p>Hahaha iMac15! I’m the token black girl at my all-white high school and when I recently went down to the beach (Beach Week), I was asked that by all of my friends! And they seemed super surprised when I told them that yes, black people can tan/burn. =D </p>
<p>Anyway, this survey makes me laugh. It’s a “who cares?” kind of thing for me. However, now that I know rooming with a white girl will improve my scores, I’m even more excited for college haha.</p>
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<p>But I do think that most of those academically prepared black students will come from predominantly white high schools (like I do) and won’t need help “adjusting”. They might just feel more comfortable than the low scoring black student who (these are major generalizations) probably comes from a majority black HS and doesn’t feel as comfortable?</p>
<p>oh, just for the record, i’m black, too, and if i had to room with someone else (i live in a single), i’d definitely prefer a person of color who can empathize with being of a minority population on campus. plus it would avoid a lot of stupid assumptions/questions. not to say i wouldnt mind living with an open-minded white person, though, cuz i guess thatd be cool as well.</p>
<p>college is racis’</p>
<p>I’m from Asia and I’m gonna have a roommate from Portland. We’re cool about moving in so far. Like we’ve been in contact for over a month. Actually we’re both excited about the experience… I hope it goes well. :)</p>
<p>^22,23
People who are super white skinned, or very freckled, can be asked some extra rude questions as well, and get weird remarks at times. For that reason I am not sure if odd comments about tanning are necessarily about a race thing, or instead represent just a lack of social skills.</p>
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<p>The polite description is “little people”. The M word is inappropriate.</p>
<p>Someone get D.W.! I have succeeded at confusing the goose.</p>
<p>I want a super cool international roommate, or someone from a big city, or someone from the west coast, or anyone with very different life experiences than me. I don’t care what color they are. I’m biracial and I don’t associate with any one race-related “culture” if there is such a thing.</p>
<p>I personally don’t have to have a person from another race as my roommate for me to not be prejudice.</p>
<p>The people who did the study wanted to waste some money or had nothing to do with their time. Did we really need a study to confirm that when our stereotyping and prejudices toward others go away once we live around them and understand them ? It is simple, we have our prejudices because we don’t know the other person but once you live with that person, you perceive her/him in a new way. It does not matter if your views change for the better or for the worst , but we know for sure that living with a person who is different than us gives us the oppoprtunity to confirm or to refute what we thought that we know about that person.</p>
<p>This is just what the elitists on CC need: another thread on how blacks are less intellectual than their white classmates and how there’s a “correlation” between the population of blacks in schools and low/lowered standardized test scores.</p>
<p>Love it.</p>
<p><quote> I keep hoping to befriend a midget so that I can protest all claims that I dislike the height challenged…alas, midgets are hard to come by. </quote>
you’re not allowed to say midget any longer, it’s little people.</p>
<p>I officially promise to never post another parody. Clearly, it soared over heads.</p>
<p>I got your joke Plattsburgh, I’m just saying.
Officially the other day, the Little People of America group or whatever made this huge hullabalu and said that midget is on par with the n-word.</p>
<p>My sister has a black roomate and it has increased rather than reduced her prejudice. Her roomate will not hang out with anyone who is not black and will not even speak to my sister. So, I guess it goes both ways.</p>
<p>^or maybe it is the otherway but your sister cannot tell the difference 
just saying one should be objective in their analysis.</p>
<p>Or maybe she just doesn’t like your sister.</p>
<p>It happens.</p>
<p>And now for a Seinfeld reference:
This reminds me of that episode where Seinfeld gets upset and says “Am I only allowed to dislike someone if they’re white?!” or something like that. I can’t find the exact quote.</p>
<p>I live in Ohio …</p>
<p>PlattsburghLoser you make my day, you know that?</p>
<p>I totally got the D.W. comment…</p>
<p>Oh and I did a 2 week stint at a small liberal arts college- it was a writing program
There were 80 students, and about 11 of them were black- including me, and i thin 3 asians</p>
<p>Anyways my roomate was white and we barely spoke to each other- we just didn’t mesh</p>
<p>But i met amazing and wonderful people, and made great friendships</p>
<p>And all these people were WHITE</p>
<p>I have no white friends at school or any place else- the white people at my school are something else</p>
<p>But in that situation it wasn’t based on race and who looked like me, it was purely who can I relate to, who do I enjoy hanging out with and what not</p>
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<p>Also my sister goes to said liberal arts school, and has not liked any of her room mates who happen to be white, however most of her friends are white</p>
<p>what I am saying is that mostly it depends on the person, it isn’t such a black and white thing</p>
<p>Now back to stalking PlattsburgLoser</p>
<p>I don’t care who my roommate is as long as they don’t blast music while I’m trying to sleep, move my stuff to their side of the room while I am gone and whine to their bf at 3 am on the phone that they can’t sleep. =]</p>
<p>My roommate was a Taiwanese Australian dude. I’m a black kid from NNJ. I guess you could say I fit some black stereotypes, some of them I absolutely blast out of the water. Same thing goes for my roommate, which was especially funny to see that some things Asians do really are cultural just like some things blacks do is cultural.</p>
<p>My roommate is one of my closest friends still, we chose each other before school and we got to know each other. When we moved in it was slightly weird, but being open and joking around cleared that quickly. My roommate now loves Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, I now drink my tea with milk, he listens to more hip hop/classical music (I bump bach hardbody) and I now listen to more alternative rock, techno, and other stuff. Never would have thought I would love Thai food at 3 Am, doubt he ever thought he would love the movie Friday.</p>
<p>Same thing happened with a ton of my other friends, I’ve got HK people bumping rap, my French friends put me on to some classic french and sick beatboxers, I can now longboard thanks to my white boys, the list goes on.</p>
<p>I wasn’t racist when I went into school but I know I’ve changed alot of peoples mindsets about black people, generally because they’ve said stuff like, “Wow man your different from what you would expect”. It’s kind of funny because while I guess that should be offensive I realize that I have a certain idea of what asians, whites, spanish, europeans etc should be like too, and most of the times I’ve learned thats completely wrong.</p>
<p>I can’t even imagine how much less **** I would be able to do if I was racist.</p>