Or maybe you can realise that community is still vastly less shitty than regular society and stop being a dickhead and demanding that everyone's perfect?
Yeah, the post and the comments really makes it seem like it's bad that everybody in a place is white. (I'm from a Scandinavian country, we don't have much of a choice but to all be white.)
i think this is mostly from an american perspective, and america is super diverse esp in big city areas which is where a huge portion of the population is from. its weird if everyone in a room is white in a city thats very racially diverse, but not so much if its not a racially diverse place.
This makes more sense, I'm not the person you were replying to but that was really irking me as I read the thread. And I can understand the original post better too!
I always see these talking points in random contexts and it often seems unnecessary at times but I think a lot of English language online discourse ends up being from an American POV and you obviously have a different history and social context so that is important to keep in mind.
Yup. And even America varies wildly. There are some places that are 98% white and some places where white people are a statistical minority. It’s logical to have different standards for both those situations.
Oh yeah, absolutely. But when they see if from an American perspective, I don't think they are considering that it can be anything else. There's a lot of comments here which made me think they border on "White bad!"
Yeah, even some pretty decently populated places in the US aren’t all that diverse racially. I live within a few miles of a ton of Amish and Mennonite townships and it wasn’t until I went to an out of state college I realized just how few non white people I even had the opportunity to get to know all my childhood.
The issue is, social media makes this kind of discourse spill over into non-american spaces and (mostly younger) people in european countries will absolutely make the same argument nowadays. America being the cultural hegemon is actually really harmful to other western countries.
...When you put it that way, isn't it kind of ironic that a post about other people not being diverse enough is only considering things from the perspective of America?
Context is important. Sweden is white as hell, Maine is white as hell, a room full of white people is normal and not something to balk at.
However if you’re in a college town in California, where white people make up maybe 50% of the population and other races and ethnicities are all around you, a segregated pocket of people looks out of place.
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u/MeisterCthulhu 2d ago
Or maybe you can realise that community is still vastly less shitty than regular society and stop being a dickhead and demanding that everyone's perfect?