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Well... we've disposed of niceness, more or less, although we disagree. :)

To answer the "I'm not sure what you mean that there's no segregation by race but by cultural choices. Could you elaborate?"

Sure! Little difficult to explain but I will use the example of Hispanic folks in my area. (Most of the folks in my area are Hispanic). There are the folks who dress in "normal" clothes, have "normal" jobs, and speak Spanish primarily at home. No segregation that I've noticed between those folks and everyone else. There are the folks that wear gang clothes -they pretty much hang out with other gang people (duh). There are the folks who are new immigrants, who do the yucky work, and don't speak English yet - they pretty much hang out with others like themselves.

Does that make more sense? My son's three best friends are three different races. But the kids in his class that fall into the groups that self-segregate don't really hang out as much with the other kids. Of course they don't... how am I going to set up play rules with a mom when I can't talk to her? And later, when the gangbangers take over... well, I know my husband got randomly jumped walking home just for being a big white guy. It happens. /shrug.

On to the next issue... do you have one handy?