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Self-segregation occurs when, for whatever reason, members of a racial or ethnic group isolate themselves from the greater community. In a Crimson dining hall survey of 45 students, about 58 percent of students believe Harvard to be at least somewhat self-segregated. But self-segregation is a loaded term: it implies something is wrong with the way in which people interact with each other. “A lot of people would take issue with using that sort of language. Many people, myself included, feel that there is a space for individual communities on campus,” says...
Jason C.B. Lee ’08, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), objects to the way that some students characterize social groups based along racial and ethnic lines. “Segregation has a negative connotation, like ‘black students are imposing this extreme negative on themselves. Segregation is terrible and now they’re doing it to themselves.’ We kind of balk at the term ‘self-segregation’ because we feel good about what we do here, how we interact with each other...
...Vote or Die” campaign, which started in 2004 in the hopes of increasing minority representation on the Council. There are many explanations for the lack of minority involvement in these groups, but one big reason is the time many minority students devote to their ethnic communities. “When I’ve talked to various leaders and they try to increase Black participation in groups, there are limitations,” says Lee. “The Black community at Harvard is extremely active. It doesn’t leave as much time...
...enough travel possibilities to exhaust a lifetime. But if all you can spare is a few days, consider the microcosm that is Desa Seni, desaseni.com. At this Balinese resort, the accommodation consists of 10 traditional wooden homes, offering one, two or three bedrooms each. Houses are in various ethnic styles and have been imported from different regions of Indonesia before being rebuilt and refurbished. Some are over a century old. They are laid out in the manner of a typical village, and decorated with handicrafts, antiques and paintings from all over the country-all of which are for sale...
...site is host to numerous posts that identify fellow classmates by name and make offensive remarks about physical appearance, race, and sexual identity. In multiple threads, the posters describe their classmates as “fat,” remark on the size of their breasts, or use ethnic slurs. Two targets of other posts did not respond to repeated requests for comment yesterday. The president of gay rights group HLS Lambda, Adam R. Sorkin, said he was disturbed by the homophobic tone of many of the threads after doing a search for the word “faggot...