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Originally posted by teena
I think for the most part, many of the posters on GC are fairminded individuals (maybe because of the diversity of the student body at college).
Racism is still an issue here in the US. We still really refuse to deal with it.
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America is still very racially segregated. That applies to our colleges, places of worship, workplaces and families.
The importance of "racial" diversity has been replaced with cultural, regional, social class and religious diversity. People overwhelmingly live in bubbles and surround themselves with like minded and similarly situated others.
Like you said racism (and discrimination) is still an issue in the U.S. People refuse to deal with it because racism has a different manifestation than in years past and people have been throwing THE R WORD around carelessly. When you even have racial and ethnic minorities denying that racism exists, or saying that they have never experienced racism and wish everyone would get over it, why wouldn't nonminorities also question its validity? This stuff IS rocket science sometimes and not everyone is concious and observant of their social world.