When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
If you're to look at people's social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of black people - it doesn't happen. It makes sense to me that online would be as segregated as offline because it's just mimicking patterns that exist in real life.
Unfortunately, oftentimes people hire and give opportunities to people that look like them. They don't realize how much their own internal lives or privilege gets in the way of looking for people outside of the traditional spaces where they always find people.
Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.
I'm just more comfortable with people who are like me than the people who are not.
People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.
It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.
