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Originally posted by starang21
i've seen it as well, but i have seen blatant and outright torwards black folks. i've seen it more than a few times.
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Sorry - I should have been more clear - it's a population thing - there just isn't a large black population here. I'm sure I would see blatant racism towards black folks here if the population was larger. I'm not saying it's not happening - it's just hard to see when the population is small.
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[i]Originally posted by TauAlumna[i]
Isn't that what happens when a school has a large any minority population? Especially when certain groups tend to "stick with their 'own kind'" (I know I sound a little racist like this, but it's true.....)
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To some extent yes - but it still gets annoying and is very wrong. Especially when its in a work setting. I've overheard people say outright that they won't hire "them" - which is absolutely ridicoulous!!!
Unfortunately - it is true that a large portion of the Chinese community likes to stick together (this is natural - if we were to meet Canadians overseas we'll stick together with them). I think sometimes it allows people to isolate them unneccessarly because "they don't want to be around people like me".
During our school elections last year one of the candidates want to start breaking down these barriers (Waterloo is horrible for cultural cliques). Some of this ideas were very interesting, but he didn't win.
ETA: Sorry, I'll stop hijacking this thread now