I personally think, that this is the biggest issue with race relations in the US. People of different races live in their own areas, and hardly mingle with each other. Which was shown in that study, where people of different races rarely have friends with people outside their race.

Even in the most diverse city in the US, New York City. There's still racial or a hidden segregation. There's white neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, Chinese neighborhoods, Indian neighborhoods, etc. The few times people in this city intermingle is on the subway. Where even a poor man will be sitting next to a rich man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reside..._United_States

Sometimes, banks and real estate agents will purposefully put people of certain races in their racial area and make it hard for them to go to an area outside their race.

Blacks, whites and Latinos don't live among each other. And when they do, there's a thing called White Flight.


How are we going to solve racism if we can't even stand to live next to each other?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35255835

I don't think it's just race separation with lodging, it's more of income separation.

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White flight is bit of the reason why everything is so segregated tbh

Even wealthy black neighborhoods are still segregated from wealthy white neighborhoods. This can be shown in some areas of California.

I think hempstead (where I live) is pretty integrated. I've had a few friends of every "race"

In other breaking news, the sun came up today.

All jokes aside, I'm happy to live in a very diverse neighborhood despite living in a region of the U.S. that's not known for being well integrated.

"Livin' in Ladera Heights, the black Beverly Hills..."

When we have segregated neighborhoods, children will likely to go to segregated schools. I have a friend who never saw a black person before until she came to college. And this is a little more common in the Northeast than one would imagine.

these racially segregated areas are mostly based on income, not race or culture. except china towns, little italys etc. which isn't weird
actually americans of different backgrounds are moving together at a higher rate than before. especially white/asians and blacks/hispanics which is due to income

Lol. Its not racially segregate.

The rich people live among the rich in gated communities and everyone else is poor trash regardless of race.

These articles says otherwise.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35255835
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-housi...ly-segregated/
https://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-3.pdf

http://america.aljazeera.com/article...ansuburbs.html

Nope. Its actually something being supported.

http://www.prrac.org/pdf/FinalCERDHo...tionReport.pdf

Yes, I see your point. There's many factors depending to it. Like rich neighbourhoods (so obviously, white people have more of a chance of getting a home/do not have to deal with racial tensions with neighbours & landlords) and also, people just kinda prefer being with their 'own'. It's kinda like in prison too. I heard all the races/ethnicities just stick together. Like how it's portrayed in OITNB.

People prefer to live among those who resemble them. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm black and have gone to predominantly white schools and live in a predominantly white neighborhood so I can't relate.

Its an issue when even poor whites in poor white areas are getting better public services than wealthy minorities. And like I said, it isn't always about wanting to stick with your own.

They are purposely being placed in these areas sometimes, or not shown as much homes as white people. Even when minorities still have high income they are still placed in poor areas. And the ones that live in affluent non-white areas are not treated the same as affluent white areas.

This is full discrimination that has been pointed out by many journalists, and government agencies. The Obama admin said they want to end this.

Also, there's an issue of white flight. Where whites will leave an area due to fear of property values falling. In the past, the government or other agencies would scare whites into fleeing when a black person moved in. The reverse of this is whites moving into poor black neighborhood, causing property taxes and rent to rise displacing poor blacks into another crap neighborhood. While the one they just left is getting better services.

I don't get the issue with this do people of different races need to be evenly spread all over the world?