<p>"I go to Tufts and I have friends of all ethnicities AND socio-economic backgrounds, thank you very much."</p>
<p>Well that's a relief. You don't a lot of self-segregation going on at your school?
(If it makes you feel any better, my only source on the subject was a quote from The Princeton Review guide.)</p>
<p>Of course, I wouldn't WANT to hang out with people who self-divide anyways, but I have to make sure I don't go to a school where I only hang out with one ethnicity by default because I've been shunned from everyone else. If anyone else is concerned, you could post your college name and how bad it is so people have a reference.</p>
<p>I have friends at Tufts, and they and their friends are pretty diverse, but I've noticed that as a whole, people there aren't too friendly. The environment seems kind of stand off-ish to me. Maye that's just my experience then</p>
<p>People at Tufts are friendlier than at most top-tier schools. They're competitive with themselves, not with each other which makes a big difference as does the whole civic engagement/active citizenship factor that Tufts emphasizes across its curricula (check out <a href="http://activecitizen.tufts.edu)%5B/url%5D">http://activecitizen.tufts.edu)</a>. You can just ask the people who've transferred here from Amherst, Gtown, Brown, etc. Look at our forum's "Why I like Tufts" to get a feel for it... the list is growing..</p>
<p>Since the major news media will generally avoid the topic of self-segregation, wherever it occurs, some people are surprised when they personally enounter it - for example at a university.</p>
<p>However what is the alternative, court mandated racial table by table integration in college dining halls? The right of free association is protected by the 1st ammendment, so people can and will and should be able to make their own choices in these matters</p>
<p>It is ridiculous here at Purdue. I see plenty of Indians hanging around with only other Indians, Chinese with Chinese, Korean with Korean, Blacks aren't like that, Whites aren't like that, but it is a problem. I mean there are so many internationals here that come to America and then they decide to alienate themselves from anyone but their own ethnicity. It really bugs me to hang out around a group of Indian kids because then I KNOW that I get stereotyped into a guy that only hangs out with other Indians. I just find it pathetic that internationals are smart, talented, and overall great people, but they refuse to socialize with people of different races.</p>
<p>what i noticed at HSs, internationals tend to be more accepting of others while Americans (especially Whites) don't. when you see whites hanging out with Asian or other races you see that minority person acts and thinks like the white person. In an international and racially diverse group of people, they dont.</p>
<p>say there's a shy asian or white guy in a need of a lab or discussion group. and i mostly see asian group of people asking and letting them in while white people just ignore them.</p>
<p>Imagine the frustration of college administrators, who try to satisfy all the groups demanding diversity, yet when members of these groups are admitted, they intentionally self-segregate. I think there is a lot of hand-wringing over self-segregation when in fact it may be natural. Is anybody surprised when gay students want to hang around with each other?</p>
<p>Self-segregation is one of many politically incorrect topics that interfere with the elite colleges all important core belief of DIVERSITY, thus is best not discussed except in hushed tones.</p>
<p>I am at a ccc where almost everyone is asian, and I am white. It is kind of akward since all the asians seem to come to this ccc to be in a social setting that is all asian. The other ccc in the area is mainly white, same idea there. For those of you who know of de anza, hence "de asia". Will see what comes of the coming year here.</p>
<p>Well, it's different at a CC since it's a commuter school- you mainly go to class and go home. I didn't spend a second more on campus at my CC than I had to. Now that I'm at a university though, people actually hang out of campus and it's kinda like high school with the groups and cliques.</p>
<p>Other than the international students and a few of the African American sports kids, I really don't see it at my school. (And I think the sports thing is just because almost the entire women's basketball team is African American, and they hang out together.)</p>
<p>But it was funny, because the 2nd or 3rd weekend here, some of my friends and I went to a mall, and we were totally diverse. We had a gay African-American male, a (maybe gay?) Latino male, a half-Chinese male, my roommate, who is just plain white (female), and me (I'm basically just white, too). And all of us are out-of-staters.</p>
<p>It's very noticeable at my school to the point that the majority of white kids sit on one side of the class and the black kids on the other. It amazes me as high school was never like that but I guess if you're all in a new place you stick with what's familiar to you. One day I'll be brave and park myself on the black side of the class!</p>
<p>People self-segregate here at Columbia, but only out of habit. If you approach someone, everyone's friendly, there's not so much racism as casual comfort levels. You can make friends with people of different ethnic groups without it being a major effort, it just doesn't happen automatically. Two of my closest friends are korean and sri lankan, and two of my roommates are nigerian.</p>
<p>Few things frustrate me like self-segregation though... if you want equality, start taking advantage when it's given to you.</p>
<p>Are you freaking serious that self-segration *<strong><em>es you off. Are you really saying that equality and self-segration are hand in hand. Seriously, minorities want to be treated like everyone else but don't be *</em></strong>ed if they hang out in groups together. It's not like I see rich black kids hanging out with the same white kids in the country club. People who are similar hang out out together because they come from similar upbringings. Brown and chinese kids basically assimilate into white society and are that one white and brown kid. I see nothing bad about going into their own groups. </p>
<p>It's the choice of the individual to keep the balance of having his group of white friends and his own enthnicity group.</p>
<p>Most of my friends are white, i think, and I am white myself but I think this mostly has to do with the fact that 88% of my campus is white... I have friends that aren't white-- my roommate's half-Filipino, my best guy friend is Honduran, for example-- but I just don't know that many people who aren't white.</p>
<p>Many schools tell you to send in a deposit ASAP to get the best selection of housing-students who are waiting to compare financial aid packages are behind the curve when it comes to choice housing-this results in dorms segregated by the haves and have nots.</p>
<p>I think that effect is negligible, beansmom. Just because it's theoretically possible doesn't mean it has any appreciable effect on who you end up living with.</p>
<p>This effect is most pronounced among FOBS, who simply cannot bring themselves into assimilating with the rest of the student body, for whatever reasons. Now im not making any judgement calls, but until they can muster up the courage to break out of their cliques...they can't expect to "advance" up the ladder in society (after college).</p>
<p>Among first generation kids (kids born in the US to immigrant parents) the effect is much less pronounced. For example, I'm Korean, but most my friends here at NYU are non-Korean.</p>
<p>Maybe because not everyone has the same perseption of college as being this great "awakening" or a great "chance to grow" -- this is an american approach to college and a lot of minorities see college as something thats just part of life. </p>
<p>You get in, you get out, you get a job, move on. That's why just because they reached college doesn't mean that all of a sudden they are going to change themselves, anymore if they got a new job. College, in reallity, is a discusting place-- thoughtless sex, drugs, alcohol--not a good place to "discover yourself" really.</p>
<p>Part of life? Part of life is learning to adapt, and unless they do, they'll hit a ceiling or maybe worse. People make vital contacts in college and only sticking with people of the same ethnicity is a poor decision.</p>