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As I am a caucasian living in a european country, predominantly populated by caucasians, I can only try to relate to how it is to be in a minority in your own country, and how tense the racial tensions are currently in the U.S.

That being said, reading that description of the sterile legal proceedure and idology fueled indoctrination that is being imposed on those kids genuienly scares me.

How will things get healed if a whole generation will be brought up in an environment where they are dissuaded from asking, or being asked, the tough questions. Where feelings of quilt or righteous superiority are instilled in them over aspects of their society that they have not had a part in shaping, yet now need to answer for.

My humble view has always been that conflict between humans can only be resolved by dialogue. And as humans are messy creatures, those dialogues will have to be messy.

Proceduralizing it like this will just cause more harm, than it solves.

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I am not caucasian from a predominantly Caucasian European country, where we are indoctrinated to judge people by how they cook pasta, living in an even more caucasian European country when we are judged by the trash bag we used. Guess what? I live exactly like the others (I know how to cook pasta in the right way and I use the correct trash bag). Once again, I thank the divine Providence to let me born and live in Europe.

I didnt understand whos country it is, and who is the minority / majority?

As the article clearly mentions Manhattan as the location of the school, it can be deduced that the country is the U.S.

As for the population ratios in the U.S, a short internet search tells me that there are estimated to be 330 million people living in the U.S as of 2020, of whom it is estimated that 46.8 million are african americans and 60 million are hispanic. That comes down to 14.18% and 18.18% respectively.

So given some margin for error, and accounting for other minority groups, only 1 in 3 would be of another skin colour than white in the U.S.

There is a large generational gradient here which may be relevant. As of 2016 non-hispanic white is just slightly less than 50% of births [0]. The 1 in 3 number is a good estimate for the entire US population, but the school age population is trending toward the 1:1 we see in births.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/23/its-officia...

That is genuinely interesting.

I guess there will be a seismic shift for many things in U.S society over the coming decades, where one of the more interesting would be voting patterns.

The open southern border is a deliberate plan to change those patterns.

As someone born and raised within the Schengen Area I would never call the U.S border, anywhere, open in any way.

The EU polices its external borders far better than the US does.

I never suggested there was an open border policy to the greater world when it comes to the EU/EFTA.

Only that the U.S border cannot in any way be called an open border, as it does not allow free movement of people and goods across its borders when arriving from another country.

While selective in who it is open for, the Schengen Area can be called open as it requires no visa's or passports and allows complete freedom of movement for citizens of those countries that have signed up for the agreement.

ik that the US is the country, that wasnt my question ... But whos country is it? The "white man"s? It just struck me as a very strange thing to say.

I said ".., I can only try to relate to how it is to be in a minority in your own country."

That contains no statement on who's race that country is (as obviously it, as all countries, is not owned by one group of its citizens over others)

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