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Does segregation still exist in the US?

I think it does to a certain degree. What do you think?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Absolutely. Look at the segregation of class, first of all, then break it down again. I firmly believe that the people in power gain a lot by keeping segregation viable. When you have first class distinctions, then the poorer people feel bad about themselves, what they can or better yet can not provide for their families. Next they can not afford decent health care or schooling. This further segregates the people. Next you have race segregation in different neighborhoods. Not much has really changed in this area at all. a black family while having legal rights, will still be set apart from their white or Hispanic neighbors. The same holds true for a white family in a Barrio or predominately Black neighborhood. This keeps people from building each other up. When we are all kept down and separate, we don't have the strength or the resources to fight the power of the oppressors.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    by means of fact maximum whites do no longer % to stay in community that are greater suitable than 30% non white the call for for housing in non white neighborhoods is far less which in a industry financial device ability they value much less. yet Blacks and latinos don't sense this way, and in the event that they have a low earnings looking low priced housing is a precedence noticeably in cities the place housing is expensive. although in the US community are strongly segregated by means of earnings, and severe earnings Blacks and Latinos chosen neighborhoods the place human beings have an identical earnings they do, that are often usually white, so we've very few all white community in or close to cities the place there's a great non white inhabitants and as earning of minorities will enhance over the years the fraction of them residing in segregated neighborhoods additionally decreases. before the civil surprising circulation there have been wealthy all black community by means of fact blacks confronted issues or perhaps violence if the moved to a white community, yet as much as now as i comprehend they do no longer exist anymore

  • 2 decades ago

    Segregation is the process of keeping one group separate from others, so yes, it does happen. There are men-only and women-only organizations, I doubt there's many Hispanics in the NAACP, and there certainly aren't any white people in Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition. In the same way, the KKK doesn't seem to invite members who are black or Jewish, although most of us just think the KKK is a bunch of idiotic radicals who deserve to be ignored.

    As far as keeping neighborhoods separate, that's illegal, but you will find a lot more neighborhoods that are predominately one race over another.

    The neighborhood I grew up in was almost all white. We had one black family move in about 3 years after we did. The family that bought our home when we moved was Argentinian, and was only the 2nd non-white family in the neighborhood.

    Why did this happen? Probably because in an upper-middle-class neighborhood, people didn't tend to move very often, and when they did, the people who moved in had to have high-enough paying jobs to be able to afford those homes. Affirmative Action has enabled many more minorities to have higher-paying jobs than ever before, but that doesn't mean they automatically jump into established neighborhoods. Nobody in that neighborhood really cared about the ethnic background of their neighbors, outside of perhaps getting an opportunity to learn something new, but we couldn't force anyone to move into that neighborhood any more than we could force anyone to move out.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Sure. People segregate themselves all the time. And while official segregation doesn't exist, northern schools were never integrated.

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    i recently moved to a southern state and i am amazed by the segregation here. there is neighbor hoods for black people, white people, Hispanic people and Asian people and they are all separated. i never knew that things were like this before i moved here and i don't understand why it is like this there is no law that says the white people have to live here and the black people have to live there but that is just how it is. i am white and i found this really great house for rent for i loved it and i almost rented it but everyone told me i couldn't because it was in a black neighborhood even the lady showing the house said that it wouldn't be safe for a white person to live in this neighborhood i really don't understand it living my whole life in a place where pretty much everyone is colorblind

  • 2 decades ago

    Segregation defintely exists. It is subtle, and the people enforcing it try to keep it discreet, but yes, for sure.

  • 2 decades ago

    my girl and i talked about this today infact

    we see segregation everywhere, and it isn't something that happens because people don't want to be around other races, but people are naturally more comfortable around people of there own class, race, and nationality. black white indian, jamaican, russian, american, each will be drawn to there own... it still exists in short

  • HanZ
    Lv 6
    2 decades ago

    yes i have couple friends who's formerly students at Darien HIgh School in Dairen CT it's notorius. There's not one black kid in the sschol, that town is also the richest town in CT. with average house price of 1 million+.

    i'm sure many towns in many parts of country are like that.

  • 2 decades ago

    yeah, go to Goldberg's NC, the schools are segregated

  • 2 decades ago

    yeah it does happen it's a type of Hidden Violece..

    it doesn't happen so much that the government also is active in segregation.

    individuals show this, but it is not on a major scale.

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