http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2012/03/religious-students-have-fewer-interracial-friendships/ News and Views from a Secular Perspective Mon, 20 May 2013 20:42:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2012/03/religious-students-have-fewer-interracial-friendships/#comment-7518 jay Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:41:05 +0000 http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/?guid=db501fd0b656873195b9ee66d162c0e7#comment-7518 I am concerned that too much can be made of this. It’s merely a factoid. There is a huge difference between harmful discrimination and a tendency to wind up with close friends who are a lot like you. One is harmful, the other is simply a quirk of human nature that likely has roots in our tribal evolutionary past. What I find especially bothersome is the last comment suggesting that university educators can attempt to re-engineer people’s private relationships to a numerical value that is perceived as superior. Manipulation of people’s private lives should simply not be in the job description.

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