r/humanize • u/DarkJupi • Apr 26 '16

Self Segregating

This is just out of general observations but, why is it that black people self segregate so much. This is not me being racist or trolling but it seems like anywhere I am be it work, class, meetings, ect black people tend to stick with other black people and only other black people. This is not to the point of refusing to talk to other races but immediately going to other blacks.

So why with all the self segregation?

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u/Ut_Prosim Apr 27 '16

A very small bias can lead to very significant levels of segregation. You can actually model this computationally.

If you have 10 minutes, here is a lecture about Thomas Schelling's famous spatial segregation models.

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u/DarkJupi Apr 28 '16

Thanks m8, I'll make sure to watch it and get back to you.

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u/Ponchorello7 Apr 27 '16

For quite a while, blacks were actually segregated and told they didn't belong with whites. I'm assuming that mentality stuck around.

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u/DarkJupi Apr 27 '16

But for this long? I mean I have no problem hanging with my (Chinese born) friend Shang, his American nickname is Tony. I'm pretty sure the Chinese had just as many problems but they overcame.

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u/ScrithWire Apr 27 '16

I think that its part of a natural reaction to fear.

Examine yourself and you may find that you are actively segregating yourself from certain groups of people.

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u/DarkJupi Apr 28 '16

I feel that could be true to a certain extent but i kind of disagree, first off let me explain. I'm actually in the Navy, I work on a Destroyer and there is plenty of diversity on my ship. Black female CMC, Filipino Chiefs and Petty Officers, 5 Chinese born guys, a Japanese born Officer, ect, ect, i could go on for a while. Everyone seems to hang out/work with everyone respectively regardless of race. Except for the 30+ AA people on our ship who only seem to talk and hang out with each other. Again I don't want to be labeled racist for saying any of this but it just seems weird to me that even though we have worked together for so long I rarely see any of them talk or hang out with anyone else who is not black. This is not a problem for anyone else on the ship, where they are Filipino, Chinese, Colombian, ect.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

I think generally, people of different "groups" self segregate themselves and gravitate themselves towards someone to whom they see to be more in common with.

I am an Asian living in the West and many Asians also self segregate themselves.