Racial Tension?
Lately, at my school, everyone’s been buzzing about ‘racial tension’ and how this is not acceptable. Because of a fight of somewhat about two weeks ago. And apparently, one side of the max fight was of Asians and the other was of… African-Americans and Mexicans.
Though, really, it’s always been divided. Naturally. I was once on a field trip. To a restaurant. And we had a tour around, and they told us how things worked and what-not. And we all sat down at a table for lunch. And half-way through eating, we all noticed: one side was all girls, and one side was all boys. No one noticed at all at the beginning. It seemed to be automatic.
Now, it’s kind of the same. Except with races, and not genders, because of couples and et cetera. My friend made a map of our school cafeteria, and though Disney claims in its shows and original movies that the cafeteria is divided for jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, fashion ‘zombies,’ math-letes, goths, punks, or something like that; it’s more like:
- Smart Asians (composed of Chinese kids, mostly).
- Popular Asians girls (composed of Filipino girls, mostly. And ‘white-washed’ Chinese, kind of).
- Popular Asian guys (who are dumb).
- Mexicans
- African-Americans
- Popular Caucasian guys
- Popular Caucasian girls
- Popular Hispanics.
And there are some different tables outside who are the emos and the punks. And maybe athletes or so.
It happens with adults, too.
Yesterday was the annual Christmas party that my mom’s company throws every year. Yes, it was early for Christmas. I had a blog entry about it last year, too.
I noticed that with these five tables, there was two Asian tables, two caucasion tables, and one Mexican table. There was one Caucasian in an Asian table, but he was the boyfriend of an Asian. And in one Caucasian table, there were two Mexicans.
I think that it will always be very divided. I have no idea why, but it just is.
Yes, that’s true, especially in a place with many people. There tends to be fewer of these problems in smaller places where there are less races. It’s just that people feel more comfortable around people who are similar to them.
I think that Disney does things the way it does so that it doesn’t get sued for promoting racism. Its image is closer to what a cafeteria would be like in a small school.