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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
It doesn't need to explicitly come up. It's just like kids that go to very affluent schools. They think it's "normal" for your parents to buy you a car when you're 16. It's "normal" to have your parents send you on a grade 12 trip to Europe.
Spending your time in a homogenous environment in any dimension reduces your opportunity to build empathy and understanding.
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How is a school with 35 per cent European, 25 per cent Filipino, 15 per cent Vietnamese, 15 per cent Nigerian, and 10 per cent Hispanic population homogenous?
If I had to guess, I’d say my public high school was 50 per cent protestant, 20 per cent Catholic, 15 per cent Jewish, 10 per cent Mormon, and 5 per cent other. And it was 90 per cent born and raised in Canada white. Was it really more diverse than the Catholic school above just because it had more religious diversity?