Go deeper. Think
about race and gender as far as boundaries of my neighborhood goes. As I walked
around I realize that race is something hard for me to analyze. I'm from a
small town where it is dominated by white people and the only minorities are Hispanics.
We had about 7 black kids at my high school. When I walked around campus I did
see that black people tend to hang out with other black people and race does
become this boundary that separates us. It is a social way of identification.
Race connects people. When I see people hanging out and there are a mixture of
races it is new for me to see, and to be honest pretty strange. If I would of
grown up in a bigger city maybe I would be used to seeing it.
As far as
gender goes it is a definite boundary between people. I know for a fact that
when I see guys with girls together on campus that the guy is socializing in a
different way than we would socialize with other males. Now I can only speak
for myself because I'm a guy not a girl. I can tell a girls room by the outside
of the dorm room. If they have a whiteboard with cute little hand writing I
know that is a girl's room. Guy's rooms are distinctly less packed in the
dorms. I think it's because we don't try and bring a whole wardrobe. I also
think it shows that guys need less to feel comfortable in our environment. I walked by some guys playing Frisbee. All
these guys need for entertainment is a simple disc. Not saying girls never play
Frisbee, but I see guys doing this kind of thing way more often. Girls need
more. Simple enough haha. I know that I might take some crap for that comment.
I can only asses one side of this because I am not a girl, and I don't know how
girls behave socially together when guys aren't there. I can only imagine what
they do and I often come back to the stereotypical view of cute girls having
pillow fights and giggling when they hang out, that or doing makeup. I guess
the girls will have to let me know what they really do.
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