[379] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Segregation on Campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhelinrentice L Scott)
Tue May 1 00:55:51 2001
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To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 May 2001 00:32:03 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 00:54:37 -0400
From: Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>
Segregation on Campus is a big issue. Next House is known
for being predominately Asian. Particularly Chinese.
New House is viewed as Chocolate City and the suburbs that surround
it.
Baker House is definitely seen as the "white" dorm and East Campus
and Senior house are just themselves.
I don't know what the word is about MacGregor, but the fact of the matter
is that racial segregation exists on this campus to some extent.
Why is that? Why do a large percentage of the white, asian, and black
people cluster together apart? Why don't they want to have anything to
do with each other?
As a black woman living in New House 4 (one of the many suburbs of
chocolate city) I often get asked the question: Oh, you live in New
House...do you live in Chocolate City? Then I have to tell them
no. I live in New House 4. New House 4 is multiethnic we have
Chinese, Malaysian, African American,American White, Thai, and
puerto rican.
When I came to MIT I chose to live in a house that was diverse and
NOT too close to chocolate city. I wanted to be exposed to other
folk.
so let's talk about why people choose the place they do to live, and
how we as a community can foster more interactions cross culturally.
Cheers,
Zhe
