Segregate: (According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary) 2a: the
separation or isolation of a race, class or ethnic group by enforced or
voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse,
by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means.
In the olden days, segregation was a basic way of life. In some places of the world, it still is. A good example of this segregation would be in the United States, when black people and white people couldn't do the same things in the same buildings. Not to mention that whatever the white people got was always better.
It's famous people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped to end segregation in the U.S. But, as much as I like to think that the U.S. is the most dominant country in the world, they can't control everything. We still discriminate, although it isn't as obvious as it was in times such as the Civil War.
Well, today I arrived in the Whyville Square where three people were talking. Their
conversation, that I stuck around to read, started out with something like this.
"I hate it. I can only talk to the people I know, and everyone else acts like they hate me. Like the people at the Playground."
And, quite honestly, this person is quite right.
I've seen it a million times in Whyville, and I'm sure I'll see it again in my "Whyville life", so to say. Discrimination. Segregation. Pre-judgment. Anti-Socialism, one might even name it. Not wanting to know someone based on what you know of them. And for the most part, that's not a lot of knowledge.
If you're a total addict like me, you'll noticed that the same groups of people are constantly hanging out in the same places. The cliques. The posies. The gangs. The small groups of popular people. Oh, what we'd all give to be accepted like that.
What's that point? I mean, what is so wrong about meeting someone new? Apparently, you have to be good looking. You have to have your name known. You have to know
people. And of course, it's not what you know, it's who you know.
I bet that if you ever saw me walking down the street, you wouldn't know me. You wouldn't stop and say, "Hey, you're Giggler01, and I love your articles." More likely you would walk right by me. Just another face in the crowd.
There is segregation in Whyville. It's not only popular people who segregate either. All of sudden you're not allowed in certain areas because you're not important enough. It's true, and it happens in Whyville everyday. Face the facts.
What we have to do about segregation in Whyville remains a mystery to me, for the moment. I mean, what punishment do these people deserve? Nowhere does it say that a chat room is specifically designed for a certain race or group of people. And at the same time, what's there to prevent us? Some people don't realize that this even goes on, or that they're the cause. It's life. It's the real world.
Giggler01
Accepting.
Accepted?
