Overview of Self Segregation in America
America has always been a country to have diversity within it but also segregation. Since there is diversity there is surely going to be divergent views of people belonging to various religions which needs to be taken into consideration by the government of America for a smooth functioning of the country. In this self segregation essay, we are going to discuss about how America is a self-segregating country and based on what criteria and elements the country makes the segregation.
The article of “Why America is self-segregating” is written by Danah Boyd in which she speaks about the divergent population of America and how the views of this diverse population is taken care of by the government of America. The American public are literally self-segregating themselves and this is leading to tear of social fabric within the country. This assignment emphasizes on a lot of aspects of self-segregation within different situations and settings such as military, college campus, social media and how and why these things take place. In social media platforms, Danah Boyd explains that the founders of biggest social media platforms such as Facebook and others where primarily designed to connect people worldwide and initially it even served the purpose of it but as time passed the cons took over the pros and started segregating people worldwide. In the military scene Boyd talks about how the soldier have separate themselves by various reasons such as political views, values and other demographic factors‘.
Initially many people had imagined that internet would serve the purpose of connecting people worldwide and bridge the gaps that were present as the world was expanding.The tools initially that were used to bridge the gaps between people and connect them has in the current situation become the tools that are magnifying segregation and social solidarity. This article speaks about three aspects the social media, the military and about college campus and how segregation has made its way in these areas. Mark Zuckerberg believed that he could designed a tool that would connect people worldwide which actually primarily worked well and connected people with each other but in the current situation the same tool is magnifying divisions. Mark still sees Facebook as tools that connects people and not divide or segregate them and lives with that hope.
To sum up, it is true that in the present situation where internet has to be used a tool of connecting people have been using it in the wrong and totally opposite direction which is really saddening.
