Friday, October 10, 2014
I think that segregation at groves is not much of an issue, it is more the problem of self-segregation and people like to hang out with other people like them. Just seeing that map today shows you the other side of things that there can be such a border not only physically but geographically. I know exactly the divide between Detroit and Ferndale and the huge difference. My best friend lives south of 8 mile and woodward and every time i cross over 8 mile I can see the differece. You drive through Ferndale and it is just like any other city that people walk around and shop and eat, and then all of a sudden you come to a stop light just south of there and have people banging on your windows begging for money. People in my friends neighborhood can never park their cars on the street, especially at night, because people will smash your windown and take everything, and I learned that the hard way when it happened to me. I do believe that the self-segregation is a problem, and it is causing what is happening at the 8 mile divide.
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I completely agree with you. I feel like we are more comfortable meeting someone who has some sort of similarity to us, and because of that we tend to look for people who are similar in the slightest way. Most of the time we look for someone who is of the same gender or race. This is very detrimental because surrounding yourself with those alike will result in a narrow view of the world. If people started to go out of their comfort zone and communicate with someone of a different race, I think that the conflicts between different races would greatly reduce.
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