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RE: Why Are White Americans Overly-Factionalized? - 7/11/2006 4:55:45 PM

Wildfleurs

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Although I will admit that most of my knowledge of minority culture has come from having to live in neighborhoods where the rent isn't quite so high as the rest of CT, I don't think my original statement was based on a biased view, skewed by television (I'm not a big fan of BET anyway) or my exposure to mostly minorities of low socio-economic status. By the way.......I don't really know why the hell this quote box is covering everything !

I think you have your answer to your question right there. If your only exposure to black people has been of a low socio-economic status in one town in Connecticut then of course you'd think blacks were homogeneous. It would be the same if I went to the Appalachian county of West Virginia (think Deliverance) and then declared that white people were representative of that group and hence.. homogeneous.

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RE: Why Are White Americans Overly-Factionalized? - 7/11/2006 6:06:11 PM

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Having been career military and now retired, every group is factionalized in my humble opinion.

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RE: Why Are White Americans Overly-Factionalized? - 7/12/2006 7:49:57 AM

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ORIGINAL: Wildfleurs

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ORIGINAL: TreSwank

Although I will admit that most of my knowledge of minority culture has come from having to live in neighborhoods where the rent isn't quite so high as the rest of CT, I don't think my original statement was based on a biased view, skewed by television (I'm not a big fan of BET anyway) or my exposure to mostly minorities of low socio-economic status. By the way.......I don't really know why the hell this quote box is covering everything !

I think you have your answer to your question right there. If your only exposure to black people has been of a low socio-economic status in one town in Connecticut then of course you'd think blacks were homogeneous. It would be the same if I went to the Appalachian county of West Virginia (think Deliverance) and then declared that white people were representative of that group and hence.. homogeneous.

C~

Even with my own upbringing, that took place in rural North Carolina, and yes, the Appalachians of Southeastern Kentucky, I would say that my exposure to minorities and white folks has brought me to the same conclusion as my empirical observations in New England.

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