[megatrendsZ]

Post videos of HS students talking about race and ethnicity. Post videos of your HS if available. Here's a video of the highschool I went to.



Triethnic looking student of PR-Honduran descent at 3:05 refers to himself as white boy, and Spanish of course. Since he hangs out with a lot of Aframs he's adopted this perspective of calling any people of a Spanish speaking background "white boy".

[ChexEcodece]

I don't have a video of my high school. My high school was diverse, but it was still somewhat separated...like the African Americans would hang out in the front of the school near the cafeteria. The Hispanics/Latinos (mostly Salvadorians and Peruvians) would be near the ESL hallway. The Asians would be in a whole group with each other everywhere. The Indians and some Middle Easterners would be in a whole group with each other. The White people would be pretty much everywhere.

I went to every group and was friends with someone within every group. I gave a hug to at least one person in each.

[Yifnvmzp]

I don't have a video of my high school. My high school was diverse, but it was still somewhat separated...like the African Americans would hang out in the front of the school near the cafeteria. The Hispanics/Latinos (mostly Salvadorians and Peruvians) would be near the ESL hallway. The Asians would be in a whole group with each other everywhere. The Indians and some Middle Easterners would be in a whole group with each other. The White people would be pretty much everywhere.

I went to every group and was friends with someone within every group. I gave a hug to at least one person in each.

Did you see the video of my HS? How does it look to you?

[cliceperperIa]

Did you see the video of my HS? How does it look to you?

It looks somewhat like my high school pretty much.

[herbalviagra]

It looks somewhat like my high school pretty much.

Thing is my highschool also had a lot of Black Spanish speaking people so the ethnic lines would be blurred. Also white Americans were a very tiny minority.

[YpbWF5Yo]

Post videos of HS students talking about race and ethnicity. Post videos of your HS if available. Here's a video of the highschool I went to.




Triethnic looking student of PR descent at 3:05 refers to himself as white boy, and Spanish of course. Since he hangs out with a lot of Aframs he's adopted this perspective of calling any people of a Spanish speaking background "white boy".

wow very interesting complete opposite from my highschool, i will upload my school tomorrow if i can find it.
your school seem to be massive too

[JJascaxal]

In my high school, all of the black girls were friends with one another.. friends with others too but they generally formed their own clique.

[VowJoyday]

Thing is my highschool also had a lot of Black Spanish speaking people so the ethnic lines would be blurred. Also white Americans were a very tiny minority.

That we didn't have. But I guess it's because you live in Florida, while I live in the DC metropolitan area. We had a couple of Black looking Dominicans and a couple of Black looking Puerto Ricans. But not many. We had a few Somalis, Ghanaians, Egyptians (like one or two), Nigerians.

But I think the whole job in DC thing brought in more White Americans, because at my old job I met people from all over.

The people I've met:

Africa:
Zimbabwe
Somalia
Morocco
Ghana
Nigeria
Kenya
Ethiopia
South Africa

Asia:
Chinese
Vietnamese
Pakistan
India

Europe:
Russia
France
England
Germany

That's what I could remember off the top of my head.

But for some reason, I would met more these people when I graduated.

[Alliopeti]

Photos of the site of my highschool, if you want examples of brazilian southeastearn middle class just look at it: http://www.cocminas.com.br/fotos

[crestosssa]

Post videos of HS students talking about race and ethnicity. Post videos of your HS if available. Here's a video of the highschool I went to.



Triethnic looking student of PR descent at 3:05 refers to himself as white boy, and Spanish of course. Since he hangs out with a lot of Aframs he's adopted this perspective of calling any people of a Spanish speaking background "white boy".

cool vid. That schoo had alot of diversity between Afram and Spanish speakers.

That boy does not look like a white boy at all! He definately fits as PR, but alot of times in HS the youth have complexes about themselves.

[HaroTaure]

wow very interesting complete opposite from my highschool, i will upload my school tomorrow if i can find it.
your school seem to be massive too

Why you say complete opposite? Yes there was I think 3,000 students there.

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Photos of the site of my highschool, if you want examples of brazilian southeastearn middle class just look at it: http://www.cocminas.com.br/fotos

Any ethnic/racial conflicts at your highschool?

---------- Post added 2012-01-02 at 21:58 ----------

cool vid. That schoo had alot of diversity between Afram and Spanish speakers.

That boy does not look like a white boy at all! He definately fits as PR, but alot of times in HS the youth have complexes about themselves.

He doesn't have a complex, it's just Miami is so little white American, that Spanish speakers get called white by Aframs and since this boy hangs out with Aframs he adopted their way of thinking in referring to people of Spanish speaking background as white. I can't believe these people don't stand up for their identity and tell them they're not white. However since he just wants to fit in with Aframs he lets them call him a white boy.

[HsSp82U8]

I think that the only international exposure I had while at school was a couple of East Asian students (1 Chinese, the other one Japanese), a Peruvian girl that looked very mongish (we called her chinita, ha ha) and of course, that Haitian woman that the nuns hired to teach us "French" from 9th to 12th grade, ugh. That's it.

[intifatry]

I think that the only international exposure I had while at school was a couple of East Asian students (1 Chinese, the other one Japanese), a Peruvian girl that looked very mongish (we called her chinita, ha ha) and of course, that Haitian woman that the nuns hired to teach us "French" from 9th to 12th grade, ugh. That's it.

Was there any 'racial' conflicts among Dominicans of different skin colors/phenos?

[MauroDarudo]

my high school was diverse but it was mainly segregated by style which included ghetto or urban style which were mostly consisted of blacks, wiggers, and hispanics so they all hung out together as long as they were semi ghetto and it was the same with people who were kind of anime geeks that also included whites, hispanics and blacks and all those other type of subcultures

[casinobonusfrees]

Was there any 'racial' conflicts among Dominicans of different skin colors/phenos?

No, the only thing that happened was the typical high school retardity of people separating due to cliques (rockers, nerds, rappers, the populars, the sports people, etc.).

[Eviftilia]

No, the only thing that happened was the typical high school retardity of people separating due to cliques (rockers, rappers, the populars, the sports people, etc.).

thats how it is in homogeneous societies...there is no racial divide and like the blacks are here and the mexicans are over there or whatever...since everyone in your case is dominican the only way to be unique and have an identity is to fall in a subculture like rappers, skaters, etc

[KukkoDrukko]

thats how it is in homogeneous societies...there is no racial divide and like the blacks are here and the mexicans are over there or whatever...since everyone in your case is dominican the only way to be unique and have an identity is to fall in a subculture like rappers, skaters, etc

Yeah but there are Dominicans of different "racial" types if you will, better yet, phenotypes. There are some near white like Kilo and some who are predominantly Afro. Of course the majority are pretty well blended.

[f29sXS07]

Yeah but there are Dominicans of different "racial" types if you will, better yet, phenotypes. There are some near white like Kilo and some who are predominantly Afro. Of course the majority are pretty well blended.

yea but they are just way too culturaly homogenous to divide themselves..they all speak the same way and use the same slang and follow the culture overall... that is what i noticed in puerto rico that the rocker kids and the ghetto kids really sounded exactly the same using the same lingo and speech patterns

[Romarionsion]

I went to high school in Puerto Rico (Dorado), inner city Boston, and suburban Pennsylvania, and for whatever reason in MA and PA I always had more East Asian friends than blacks and Puerto Ricans or Dominicans. Not that I was ever into anime or anything. This remained true in college as well.

[rbVmVlQ2]

I was at first rejected by other African Americans at my middle school and this did follow me a bit. For some reason, there was a very strong divide between the ethnic groups at the school. It was diverse, but segregated and students did not mix much in dating. People had ideas of how someone was supposed to look if they belonged to a particular ethnic group. I had a distinctive appearance, so it was not hard to notice me and isolate me from the start. I was dogged by rumors of who my father actually was ("a Mexican") and people said some pretty screwed up things about my mother because of the rumors surrounding my paternity. Mexican Americans at the school had a very cohesive clique (Chicano Pride was big) but I was accepted in eighth grade even though I was not Mexican. But I wanted to fix the "black beef" first, especially if I encountered folks at a later time in school (which I did not). It was actually my mixed Afram/Pakistani friend that was pivotal in my acceptance into the Afram circle and settling the ethnic beefs in our peer group. A memorable intervention with some rough words, honest truths, and handshakes brought the entire conflict to an end. In the ensuing years, people did not to mock me for my look and forgot about the entire thing. While some continued to wonder about the real background of my father, they agreed certain things were better left unknown.