Self-Segregation by Race (Miami, Hispanic, community, kids)
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Behavioral genetics is one of the most difficult fields of genetics. I would argue that people who self segregate have inherited anti social genes and have a faulty "us and them" receptor. I would expect these people to have higher rates of incest.
What is wrong with people wanting to be with others that are like them????
Behavioral genetics is one of the most difficult fields of genetics. I would argue that people who self segregate have inherited anti social genes and have a faulty "us and them" receptor. I would expect these people to have higher rates of incest.
The reality on the ground is that class matters, and "merit" is skewed by unequal starting points. Do you really think the average kid 'educated' by Chicago schools got an education of comparable quality to that enjoyed by the average kid from Lake Forest?
If an underachiever from Lake Forest scores 20 points higher on the SAT than an overachiever from Chicago, can you say with a straight face that the preppy kid is the one of greater merit?
First...how do you gauge an "underachiever" and an "overachiever"??
The bigger problem is that people attach location to opportunity. Your logic is one of the big reasons for the cultural/racial divide. The "preppy kids" issues get trivialized because why? Because he had everything every kid could ask for, right?
Ever thought that maybe he would have still scored 20 points higher even in Chicago?
Good question. Both of my kids were high GPA National Merit Scholars. All they got was a $2,000 scholarship and nothing else because they weren't URMs or socioeconomically disadvantaged.
Despite the melting pot and integration promoted by ways of education and the media, self segregation by race still holds true for the vast majority of Americans. many far right writers like Jared Taylor makes fair points that if you go into a cafeteria in universities, or if you look at the segregation by race in churches, or the kind of people you invite over for dinner, racial self-segregation has not changed much. Do you think racial segregation is innate in all humans and that it is healthy and natural or do you think it is caused by America's history and that it is an issue that is dissolving?
Hasn't changed much since when?
Seems to me the only people who claim no change are not old enough to remember how it really was long ago. Racism is not dead, or even close to it, but race relations have improved DRAMATICALLY over the past 50 years.
If you want to see a complete change in only a few months or years, then you know nothing of human - and especially American nature.
I don't know if I agree with this. I don't know where the OP lives, but in my area there is not a racial segregation in general. It's true that some races are segregated more than others, but it's not a rule. It seems like black people have the most segregation from other groups - I'm not sure why that is. Other groups here are very mixed - south east Asians, east Asians, whites, Latinos, Jews and many other groups all live in the same communities. Heck, I was a minority in my last community and most people would consider me "white".
OP = appears to me you are just whining about not being considered automatically superior without having to prove it.
Kids in HS have always self segregated based on lots of things besides race. The biggest when I was in school some 6 decades ago was by sex. the girls sat over there and the boys over here. Then there was separation by family wealth, sports cliques, what kind of cloths you wore and bunches more. I tended to sit with the science nerds and ignore the future preppies except for the girls. Them I paid a lot of well reciprocated attention to.
It's anti social behavior which is a genetic disorder possibly inherited.
How is that anti-social???
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