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Everyoneeatshere t1_jaklemv wrote

Reply to comment by LongIsland1995 in NYC is more ethnically diverse, less racially segregated, report finds by Ice_Business

All you have to do is take a look at the school cafeteria and see where the kids sit.

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cC2Panda t1_jamfcrz wrote

Kids migrate towards people they identify with most it happens everywhere. My wife went to a school that taught in English in India but the social groups split mostly on preferred languages from the outset and stayed that way all the way through. Kids that spoke Marathi were a clique, Hindi were a clique, Urdu another, and English it's own. So even within the same religion, castes and family wealth cliques formed and stayed based primarily on childhood language skills.

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Everyoneeatshere t1_jamfmin wrote

So what you are saying is segregated whether by choice or not

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cC2Panda t1_jami0w5 wrote

At the very least it takes a concerted effort not to fall into segregated cliques. There are social groups that actually do tend to be more diverse but they tend to be considered outsiders. Like when I was younger the mix of teens hanging out at Chinatown Fair playing Capcom vs SNK 2 with each other was way less segregated on race and instead just a group of gamer geeks.

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LongIsland1995 t1_jankta3 wrote

I can vouch for this. In high school, the nerdy kids (the type to do Naruto runs) had very diverse friend groups and still do.

While the "normies" mostly stuck to their own racial group.

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Rottimer t1_jamfagq wrote

Just look at the school, period. A lot of families in these diverse areas will not send their kids to the public schools.

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LongIsland1995 t1_jaklq4v wrote

I hear that even though a lot of high schools are diverse on paper, they are still are pretty segregated. I didn't go to HS in the boroughs but my experience was like that.

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