racial dynamics in college

ginab591
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:02:04 +0000

I went to a high school with no clear majority. (About a third black, a third hispanic and a third white) With a Hispanic mother and a white father, but being from the “white” part of town, I probably had more white friends than anything, but since I didn’t really identify as anything myself, race was never an issue for me.

At my school, in Maryland, Aisians if anyone tend to self segregate. But they mostly also came from the same high schools and areas, so it’s not strictly a race thing for some people.
But there are tons of mixed groups. My closest friends include white kids, Indian kids, Asians and Hispanics. The lack of black kids is mostly because there aren’t a ton of black kids on campus.
Some white or Asian kids talk about how underqualified black or Hispanic kids got their money, but they are all honors kids and they are all from the same area of Maryland where a holier than thou attitude seems to exist.