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I have a Korean roommate, straight from Korea who I would have to say used to be one of the most RACIST people I have ever met in my life. And the bad thing about it is that he actually thought his ideals were normal.
By him having a black roommate, he has,
1. Become a lot more socially conscious not only about blacks, but about every other type of person.
2. Has learned that stereotypes very rarely fit the everyday person and that all black people aren't gun toting, crack dealing, breakdancing, hoodlums.
3. Has learned life skills on how to associate with people different than him.
4. Is generally a A LOT less racist of a person than he was before, and his friends have learned a lot from me too.
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While diversity is a good thing to have on college campuses – except for maybe the small LACs (where the small student body kind of “forces” everyone to intermingle), self-segregation is often what you’ll find in most college campuses.
As for the above – yes, Asians in Asia tend to have a rather stereotypical view of African-Americans, but one has to ask where they get those ideas (since there aren’t exactly many African-Americans in Asia)?
The answer is American media (Hollywood films, music/hip-hop videos and news reports on national cable networks) which tend to give a slanted view of African-Americans.
It’s the
SAME REASON why
black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean tend to have
similar views of African Americans (for instance, many African immigrants don’t want their kids to associate w/ black Americans and many Caribbean immigrants, who clearly have some African heritage, don’t regard themselves at all as “black”).