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Replying to @eigenrobot
ohhh I saw this reported secondhand; friend of ours was a taxi driver in Nairobi and immigrated to North Carolina and found that all his black neighbors were weirdly hostile to him so he and his family made friends with the Mexicans and Hmong instead
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Replying to @IriathZhul @eigenrobot
His wife tried assimilating immediately with American clothes (she worked at a Panera) but went back to wearing kitenge cloth to advertise her status as "not one of THOSE black Americans" so people would be friendlier to her
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Replying to @IriathZhul @eigenrobot
I went to three high schools and my senior year was at the self advertized "most diverse school in the nation" (some Nat Geo article a few years back). We thought it would be a good fit because Department of Defense schools overseas are very diverse and everyone gets along well.
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Well, boy did I learn a thing or two about Erica society (and Northern Virginia) that year.
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The next time I saw segregation at this stark between ethnic groups was 5 years later at the fault line between Pashtun and Tajiks in Afghanistan
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Replying to @LiteralSheridan @eigenrobot
I went to a very diverse private school in Nairobi and yeah kids were always getting into these insane proxy wars, pantomiming their parents' diplomatic stances at the United Nations and the embassies.
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Replying to @IriathZhul @eigenrobot
like literally 12-year-olds arguing about the Iraq War, Ethiopians yelling at South Koreans about the Americans accidentally bombing Canadians, etc etc etc
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