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Originally Posted by MTVN

Seriously? I mean, I've never lived there of course, but racial divisions in the USA seem far more prominent than here in the UK. Those figures I quoted up above were about the USA from here http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/...sheet-erm.aspx and it really doesn't look to me like the US is some beacon of racial progressiveness

And the South. There's so much racism in the South, they even still have the Confederacy flag flying above the Louisiana State Courthouse

See, this is why its always dangerous to listen to what the numbers tell you, or what TV shows you. I have lived, there, and I tell you from experience.

If you have a college degree in the US, an go try to get a job, I believe you have the same chance as anyone to get that job. The thing is, its gonna take some time to change the mentality, that you can only succeed through sport, or entertainment. BUt its getting there.
Affirmative action was that if you have a company that doesnt have a cetain amount of minority working for you, and you have a choice between hiring a white or minority with the same qualification, you had to hire the minority. It was well criticized, but people followed them, or they were heavily penalized financially!

As for the mix of society its a lot more than it is here.
And its not just with white and black, in the UK (london at least), its with everyone. People all live seperately, its like unoficial apartheid!