I hope people don't take this the wrong way but as a non American I'm slightly confused why there's a college where everybody seems to be black (also an Asian lady sitting behind the speaker)
I assume it's in a mostly black area but is it a case of no white people applying for this college or the college not accepting any white people? Or maybe I'm just missing the white people
I think some people outside of the US are familiar with how many black people there are in the US. Around 13-14% of the entire country is black, and they tend to be localized to certain regions too, such as over half live in the south, with 3/4th in the south and northeast combine.
It’s hard to find such widespread diversity in European countries, for example. It exists, but looks a lot different.
It’s almost like asking why there are so many Scottish people at the University of Edinburgh to us. In a sense, it’s in the UK so shouldn’t there be more English? Obviously not the perfect analogy, but to us in the US it’s not odd to go to a city or part of town that is black, and so a university isn’t odd either. (There are also major efforts to support historically black colleges and universities.)
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u/EdwardBigby 2d ago
I hope people don't take this the wrong way but as a non American I'm slightly confused why there's a college where everybody seems to be black (also an Asian lady sitting behind the speaker)
I assume it's in a mostly black area but is it a case of no white people applying for this college or the college not accepting any white people? Or maybe I'm just missing the white people