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Former UBC boss – Toop – on student ethnic diversity and enclaves

September 2, 2014 – 7:08 am | 2,268 views


Even though he is “genuinely excited” that UBC has so many international students, the campus is also shaped by a Metro Vancouver population that is 45 per cent born outside the country.
As a consequence, Toope, …

Geographic Segregation in the States: The More Diverse a Metro Is, the More Segregated It’s Likely to Be

April 19, 2013 – 5:27 am | 1,822 views

Think about 1970. Which metro do you think was the least segregated? Which was the most segregated?
Those distinctions go to Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Wausau, Wisconsin, respectively. In that same year, 21 percent of Spartanburg’s …