<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Moreover, the services are much more racially integrated than society at<br>large; young men and women there mix freely while their counterparts<br>on college campuses self-segregate. Just visit your local college or<br>
university and go into commons or cafeteria room to see what I mean.<br></blockquote></div><br>It may be that you are seeing what you want to see based on your own bias.<br><br>The same could be said about a homogeneous group of white European-descendant Americans - they are likely to segregate themselves into groups of Irish, German, French, etc. Is the Caucasian element the issue? Try a large population of Indian-Americans, they'll probably self-segregate along cultural lines dependant on what district their family originated from in India. The same is probably true with a statistically valid sample of African Americans segregating themselves along regional ancestry. (for example, the cultural ideology of a South African is probably as different to an Egyptian as Mexican would be to Canadian) We learn first from our families. The concept of community can be as inclusive or divisive as you learn it to be. I have been raised with diversity and appreciate it; perhaps you have not. Even with a family, there are groups with common interests (Old/young, male/female, cousins you see frequently/those you don't, Drinkers/non, etc.) Does that make those members of your family who you choose to associate with less often at your family reunion are (in your opinion) worth less than those you do?
<br><br>We may actually be in agreement, but I am having difficulty with the terms you are using and how you are presenting your ideas. I hope I am misreading your intentions.<br><br><br><br><br>