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Is it really small-mindedness to prefer diversity? And responding to one’s own personal experience with specific people in a specific place isn’t the same thing as playing into a stereotype. Although that does exist, it’s not what I’m talking about.</p>
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The parents can be very, very cliquey (as they can be pretty much anywhere) and do/arrange all sorts of things to benefit the kids of their own clique. The difference is that in a school that is very heavily anything, the people who are not that can sometimes feel that they are unwelcome. Not specific to Stuyvesant, but that is the topic at hand.</p>