Posted by
Dave on Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:03:55 PM
Apparently the next season of Survivor is going to have teams segregated by race or ethnicity and there are lots of people upset about it. To be honest, I don’t know what they're upset about. After all, people want to be segregated. When given a choice, the majority of people naturally segregate themselves anyway.
People often bring up school lunchrooms and churches as examples of segregation. In my experience those are two very good examples. In fact, my high school had a recessed area of the lunchroom where the majority of the black students congregated for lunch. They weren't forced to sit there, not all of them did.
My group of friends in high school included various minorities including blacks. But oddly enough, they didn’t seem to be accepted by many of the other blacks in school. I guess because they studied, took advanced classes, and played sports like soccer, they were considered white, which only confirms my theory that people want to be segregated.
Church is usually another good example of people wanting to segregate themselves. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the saying that 11:00am to 12:00pm on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in the U.S. I’ve been to numerous churches where that’s the case – both black and white - and I would tend to agree. It took my wife and I several months of visiting churches, after moving to Virginia several years ago, to find one that wasn’t all one race. What in the world? My current church sure isn’t all one color (
www.kpic.org). Don’t all Christians worship the same God? Why can’t we worship together?
Oh yeah, we like to be segregated.
Personally, I like people from all different backgrounds and races. I work for a small business owned by a Korean-American that I consider a very close friend. Earlier this month I was honored to be a groomsman in his wedding. Friday night was the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. I ended up in a sea of Koreans and Korean-Americans. While it was a lot of fun and the women were quite pleasing to the eye, it gave me another example of natural segregation.
I don’t think any of this is really earth shattering though I don’t think most people want to admit it for one reason or another. But if people aren’t forced to segregate, and it’s not used to exert power over another race, why in the world does anyone care? I don't.
After all, last time I checked there wasn’t a Survivor draft or anything.
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