ASA2 Sec 1
Reflection 1
In response to UC Davis Facts, seeing
the statistics of the different ethnicities within the UC Davis undergrad
population surprised me because I hardly ever see Asians and whites
within the same friend group even though whites and Asians make up the majority
of students on campus. When it comes to sitting in lectures or eating at the
dining commons, most of the time Asians would sit with other Asians and whites
would sit with other whites. I’m not saying that Asians and whites never
interact with each other; because I’m sure that they do, but I find it
interesting that they don’t interact with each other as comfortably as they
would interact with themselves. Sure they both have different ethnic cultures,
but second generation Asians still have commonalities with whites as the two
have supposedly grown up in the melting pot of America. However, at a workshop about
interracial dating that I attended, it seems that nonwhites still feel somewhat
intimidated by whites. In a discussion that I was involved in, someone
mentioned that it feels as if whites have to prove that they are not racist or
superior to other races in order to effectively approach a nonwhite, and it makes
relationships among different races difficult. How can different cultures overcome the boundaries caused by hierarchy? Does this trend happen in hierarchy of subcultures as well?
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