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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by philwelch on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @11:27PM (#693168)
People do not usually share a bedroom with anyone they are not having sex with after college. Dorms are a rather unusual situation in that respect.

Even sharing an apartment with people you don't get on with can be a problem in terms of generating conflict. Roommate stress (especially for introverted conflict-avoidant people like me) is only a negative thing in the context of being a serious student. It's an essential thing to avoid.

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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by kragen on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:58AM (#693396)
People do not usually share a bedroom with anyone they are not having sex with after college.

Your experience of the world appears to be very limited. If I had to guess, I'd guess you'd never lived anywhere poor.

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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by philwelch on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @02:37PM (#694389)
You're right, but the intersection between that population and the population of university graduates is, I'd imagine, fairly low. And there are differences in race relations across the spectrum of economic classes.
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