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Post 1 Kaitlyn Post Professor Granillo English 101 19 February 2019 Segregation is an Issue You are about to go to the college you have always wanted to go to, but you see that your roommate has none of the same interests as you. So you decide to self-segregate and find someone who is more like you. This article is an observation of people who are self-segregating in America, online, in college and in the military. People tend to gravitate towards other people who are like themselves, but do not want to be around people who are different and do not have the same interests. [Insert transition}. While most believe that college students and people who go on the internet do not self-segregate, Dana Boyd in “Why America is Self-Segregating” emphasizes self segregation on college grounds and on the internet constantly; therefore everyone as a community needs to consider the consequences of this issue happening in America. Many believe that the students who are in college do not deal with self-segregation at any point in their life. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Colleges approach housing assignments as an opportunity to pair diverse strangers with one another to build social ties. This makes sense given how many friendships emerge out of freshman dorms” (Boyd 224). This quote is saying that the housing assignments are perfect every time they are assigned to someone. Pairing two completely different people with each other creates really good friendships. No one ever gets someone that they despise, so they never have to segregate
Post 2 themselves to find a new roommate. Not only do some people say that self-segregation does not happen in college, but it also does not happen on the internet. Many believe that the people who go on the internet do not have to deal with self-segregation at any time on the internet. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Many in the tech world imagined that the Internet would connect people in unprecedented ways, allow for divisions to be bridged and wounds to heal” (220 Boyd). The internet is shown to be a perfect place to meet people with a lot of tools to connect. It is a place where everyone is perfect and everyone is making friends constantly left and right. It is the place that is known to let the wounds heal and divisions to that were broken be put back together like nothing happened. In real life the people around one another are dealing with self-segregation constantly, online and in college. College students do in fact deal with self-segregation on a daily basis and cannot find a way to get around it. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Although plenty of people adore their college roommates and relish the opportunity to get to know people from different walks of life as part of their college experience, there is an amazing amount of angst about dorm assignments and the troubles that brew once folks try to live together in close quarters” (224 Boyd). This is saying that some people like who they have been assigned a dorm with, but most of the people that are assigned roommates end up having a lot of trouble with the other person and end up not liking each other anymore. This is relevant because it shows the everyday life that a college student has to go through while trying to choose a roommate. That is why sometimes a person will look up who there roommate is on the internet before they meet
Post 3 each other in person and see what they are like, and if they do not like them then they will find someone else. Another place that is constantly self-segregating is the internet and everything in it. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Many in the tech world imagined that the Internet would connect people in unprecedented ways. Today those same dreamers find it quite unsettling to watch as the tools that were designed to bring people together are used by people to magnify divisions and undermine social solidarity” (Boyd 220). People believed that the tech and the internet that is here today would bring us all together like one big happy family. Turns out they were wrong, people use it to separate themselves from one another instead of uniting together and creating friendships out of it.
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Works Cited Boyd, Danah. “Why America is Self-Segregating.” They Say, I Say with Readings, edited by Gerald Graff, et al., 4th ed., W. W. Norton, 2017, p.p. 219-229.
Post 2 themselves to find a new roommate. Not only do some people say that self-segregation does not happen in college, but it also does not happen on the internet. Many believe that the people who go on the internet do not have to deal with self-segregation at any time on the internet. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Many in the tech world imagined that the Internet would connect people in unprecedented ways, allow for divisions to be bridged and wounds to heal” (220 Boyd). The internet is shown to be a perfect place to meet people with a lot of tools to connect. It is a place where everyone is perfect and everyone is making friends constantly left and right. It is the place that is known to let the wounds heal and divisions to that were broken be put back together like nothing happened. In real life the people around one another are dealing with self-segregation constantly, online and in college. College students do in fact deal with self-segregation on a daily basis and cannot find a way to get around it. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Although plenty of people adore their college roommates and relish the opportunity to get to know people from different walks of life as part of their college experience, there is an amazing amount of angst about dorm assignments and the troubles that brew once folks try to live together in close quarters” (224 Boyd). This is saying that some people like who they have been assigned a dorm with, but most of the people that are assigned roommates end up having a lot of trouble with the other person and end up not liking each other anymore. This is relevant because it shows the everyday life that a college student has to go through while trying to choose a roommate. That is why sometimes a person will look up who there roommate is on the internet before they meet
Post 3 each other in person and see what they are like, and if they do not like them then they will find someone else. Another place that is constantly self-segregating is the internet and everything in it. In the article “Why America is Self-Segregating” it mentions, “Many in the tech world imagined that the Internet would connect people in unprecedented ways. Today those same dreamers find it quite unsettling to watch as the tools that were designed to bring people together are used by people to magnify divisions and undermine social solidarity” (Boyd 220). People believed that the tech and the internet that is here today would bring us all together like one big happy family. Turns out they were wrong, people use it to separate themselves from one another instead of uniting together and creating friendships out of it.
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Works Cited Boyd, Danah. “Why America is Self-Segregating.” They Say, I Say with Readings, edited by Gerald Graff, et al., 4th ed., W. W. Norton, 2017, p.p. 219-229.
