Quote Originally Posted by Fmedges View Post
Let me clarify the point that I'm trying to make. I'm saying that different cultural differences coupled with different geographical areas result in people seeing the world differently. For instance where I grew up, I lived right near the Mexican American border. Since that time the population of Mexican Americans in that area has quadrupled. In that region of Mexico, it's common place to have corrupt officials, from the police on upward. Now where I used to live, there are more and more problems with corruption. Is this something limited to this part of America? No, of course not, but the majority of the population there see it as so big deal and the way that it is. Why is it? I believe that it is because of cultural and geographical differences. While we are all capable of having the same culture of Americans, more often it is divided in to races of people. I don't dislike people for simply being a certain race, that would be foolish, but i hate the certain cultures, of welfare, drugs, gangs and problems no matter what the races of the people. Maybe you don't understand that me having to put that I'm a white male on form that I fill out is infuriating. People get into college easier because of their race is infuriating That you get asked what your race is if applying for government assistance. A class survey that I have to fill out in school asks how the instructor treated minorities and women. No mention of me. People can rise above the cultural differences, but a lot of them don't. Saying that we are equal is correct we are, but saying we are all the same is absolutely false.
I agree... Here's a perfect example- While I was in BCT and AIT in the Army back in '06/ early '07, I noticed an alarming trend, two different groups of people, at two different bases on different sides of the country (MO vs AZ)- the blacks would segregate themselves from the whites and have their own clique, meanwhile, the whites integrated with like minded people regardless of skin color (the country folks congregated with country folks, the city guys tended to stick together), but for the most part, a large portion of the black soldiers (granted not all of them, but enough to form groups) ran together exclusively with no whites, Hispanics, or Asians. I also noticed that although we were all equal, treated by the command and instructors as if we were all the same rank and color, this "self-segregated" group acted as if they didn't have to participate in the daily chore roster or detail rotations...