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I'm not gonna pretend like I really know much about this issue, but I agree that Uni has a multicultural curriculum, much more so in fact than at the public schools i was at before. I also think that white students like myself don't realize how race is never really an obstacle for them in day to day interactions. But I don't think that affirmative action is a good solution to the problem. Because then we just have a lot of majority groups whining about how some people only got in because they were a certain minority and they supposedly aren't even as qualified and they're getting a 'free ride' regardless of the fact that being white is in itself somewhat a 'free ride'. It just builds a lot of resentment. And many of these people who happen to be minorites are often very qualified, and it undermines them when people think they just got where they are because of their race. At Uni though, many people I've talked to have noticed that people of different races tend to be more likely to be friends that at some public schools where students tend to hang out more with their own race. So I guess it depends on what your personal definition of diversity is. Obviously though, some racial and socioeconomic groups are way underrepresented, and that's not good for anyone.

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