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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
People have been saying this for years. The truth is, as white people further understand the advantages they have set up for themselves and the more they segregate themselves everywhere, in every possible way, the more they turn themselves into the last older generation.
By the way, I'm halfway through https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragili.../dp/0807047414 and it's an excellent book.
TM |
Yes and no. I've lived for the last 15 years in neighborhoods that were exactly the sort in which white people would segregate themselves in decades past. (Not intentionally, of course. But these places tended to have nice homes and school districts, so the purchases made sense.) But the browning of the country has turned these neighborhoods an array of colors. Asians, Indians, and people of various Middle Eastern descent are statistically almost as common as Whites. There are fewer African Americans than those groups, but in my observation, that number has been steadily and dramatically increasing.
I think it's difficult to turn into one's older bigoted uncle when one is regularly socializing with people of varied backgrounds.
Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture. I don't see whites even remaining a majority in the burbs in coastal areas for too much longer. The defining line I see in the nice suburbs is more economic than racial. The poor of all colors are being priced out, aggressively. There a lot of "lesser suburbs" growing to service those people, as they're being priced out of the cities as well. I've notice a number of these, comprised of developments where lots of homes went into foreclosure in the crisis.
