The asians in Brown

chsowlflax17
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:47:50 +0000

Brown does have its share of insular ethnic groups (not saying the whole group is insular, just groups within said ethnicity are insular). One of the problems, highlighted in yesterday’s Brown Daily Herald, is that ethnic groups (example used being the Hong Kong Student Association) has trouble getting students not from Hong Kong to come to meetings, because there’s a perception that you only really belong in that group if you’re somehow “from” Hong Kong. It would be nice if these insularities were broken down a bit, but there are likely to always be groups who don’t feel like reaching outside their small group that they feel safe within (from most people I’ve interacted with here, though, this is a very atypical attitude).