I don't completely buy your explanation of black neighbourhoods.
It's not simply the colour of people's skins, it's also about shared culture. For sure people like the familiar and probably more importantly fear the unknown. But is that all about the colour of people's skin or about how they act and their culture. If you take something as uncontroversial as food preferences, there are clear cultural food differences. What about how people dress?
It would be an interesting exercise to take two different racial groups who were equally divided by say religion. Would they divide on racial lines, or religious lines. Is skin colour more important or is culture and traditions, shared views and beliefs, commonality of behavioural norms.
If you are right - then forever Western countries are doomed to racial division. If not then there is some hope, that over time racial division will fall as people coalesce around a more common set of shared cultural and behavioural norms.
I don't completely buy your explanation of black neighbourhoods.
It's not simply the colour of people's skins, it's also about shared culture. For sure people like the familiar and probably more importantly fear the unknown. But is that all about the colour of people's skin or about how they act and their culture. If you take something as uncontroversial as food preferences, there are clear cultural food differences. What about how people dress?
It would be an interesting exercise to take two different racial groups who were equally divided by say religion. Would they divide on racial lines, or religious lines. Is skin colour more important or is culture and traditions, shared views and beliefs, commonality of behavioural norms.
If you are right - then forever Western countries are doomed to racial division. If not then there is some hope, that over time racial division will fall as people coalesce around a more common set of shared cultural and behavioural norms.