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Post by Estefania Perez on Oct 10, 2016 13:11:43 GMT -8
A little late on this but I am from Hollister, CA. Hollister is a small town not very diverse, almost everyone in this town is white or hispanic. The town are looks like it is segregated by our "town town" on the east side of the town there is nicer, newer homes and on the west side of town there is older homes, a trailer park and lots of apartments. There is not a lot of crime that happens in Hollister but when it does happen it most likely happens in the west side of town. Growing up I only interacted with white and hispanic people because thats all that was around me, my parents would only take us around the central coast, we would go to Monterey, Santa Cruz, Salinas,Watsonville and Gilroy a lot; all of the towns that consist of white and hispanics. I was not surprised to see all of the orange and blue dots, everyone that has lived in the central coast area knows how its not very diverse at all. When I take my black friends to where I grew up I always tell them your going to be the only black person in town. Its amazing how just a few hours away here in Fresno, how this city is so diverse, segregated in a way but diverse.
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Post by nicole rosas on Oct 10, 2016 16:54:13 GMT -8
Hi, everybody I'm currently born and raised here in Fresno, CA. I was raised in the South Eastside of Fresno and i've seen many different things. Looking at the map i see the city is most of hispanics with small amount of asians. This doesn't surprise me because from experience around this area majority are all hispanics. In this area we have two very hispanic cultural grocery stores. I grew up near by roosevelt high school and there was a medium size asian community living in the back of our neighbor hoods. Nice's people you could meet and converse with. I lived on a busy street so we loved having yard sales on the weekends. Tons of different people would stop by from many different cultures. The down side to where i lived was the crime rate and violence from the apartments on the other side of the street. That made it very unsafe to walk at night but i loved walking to Huntington Boulevard for a nice jog during the day.
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2016 19:52:26 GMT -8
A little late on this but I am from Hollister, CA. Hollister is a small town not very diverse, almost everyone in this town is white or hispanic. The town are looks like it is segregated by our "town town" on the east side of the town there is nicer, newer homes and on the west side of town there is older homes, a trailer park and lots of apartments. There is not a lot of crime that happens in Hollister but when it does happen it most likely happens in the west side of town. Growing up I only interacted with white and hispanic people because thats all that was around me, my parents would only take us around the central coast, we would go to Monterey, Santa Cruz, Salinas,Watsonville and Gilroy a lot; all of the towns that consist of white and hispanics. I was not surprised to see all of the orange and blue dots, everyone that has lived in the central coast area knows how its not very diverse at all. When I take my black friends to where I grew up I always tell them your going to be the only black person in town. Its amazing how just a few hours away here in Fresno, how this city is so diverse, segregated in a way but diverse. You need to set up your login -- I won't grade "guest" postings
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Post by jordansal on Oct 11, 2016 21:22:09 GMT -8
I have lived in Fresno for most of my life all the way until I moved away for college for two years. I remember growing up in north fresno which according to racial dot map is predominately white. The multiple neighborhoods I lived in would mostly consist of white neighbors with the acception of one or two hispanic and black families that lived down the street. I never really noticed the lack of diversity where I lived until I got a little older, about the time when I was starting high school. I took a step back and looked at the classes I was enrolled in and the sports I played in to try to see if there was a difference in racial diversity than in my neighborhood. My school was predominately white and so was the sport I played. There were other races but there was always more white people than other races. Why is that? Well, looking at this dot map that has been assigned I notice that North Fresno and Clovis are covered in blue dots which is the white population while East, South, and West Fresno tend to be primarily hispanic. The dot map did not catch me off guard. I was expecting some parts of Fresno to be prominently white but the amount of fresno that is actually primarily white is smaller than I thought. It would be nice to see all of fresno spread with diversity but that might be unrealistic in the society we live in today. It is very interesting to see exactly where different races reside in fresno and I feel everyone should look at this dot map to become more aware of the cultures around them. People might be surprised at what they find.
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Post by lindahvang on Oct 11, 2016 23:41:26 GMT -8
I was born and raised in Merced, California until I came to Fresno for college. Merced is not as big of a city as Fresno and is easy to get around. I was not too surprised when I looked at the racial dot map. According to the map, the northeast area of Merced consists of mostly whites and had a very small diversity of other races. South area of Merced consists of mostly Hispanics and Asians. Growing up, south Merced was always known as the poorer part of town and had a high crime rate. My neighborhood in Merced consisted of mostly Hispanics, Asians, and few whites. My house is located on the country borderline so a part of my neighborhood had no sidewalks and were older houses. Just down the block of my house is Bear Creek, which is known to have nice big houses primarily owned by whites. Anyone who drove down the street could tell the difference in who owned the houses. Although there was a racial difference in my neighborhood, there were never any problems and was a safe place to live.
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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2016 9:14:27 GMT -8
I was born and raised in Merced, California until I came to Fresno for college. Merced is not as big of a city as Fresno and is easy to get around. I was not too surprised when I looked at the racial dot map. According to the map, the northeast area of Merced consists of mostly whites and had a very small diversity of other races. South area of Merced consists of mostly Hispanics and Asians. Growing up, south Merced was always known as the poorer part of town and had a high crime rate. My neighborhood in Merced consisted of mostly Hispanics, Asians, and few whites. My house is located on the country borderline so a part of my neighborhood had no sidewalks and were older houses. Just down the block of my house is Bear Creek, which is known to have nice big houses primarily owned by whites. Anyone who drove down the street could tell the difference in who owned the houses. Although there was a racial difference in my neighborhood, there were never any problems and was a safe place to live. I'm not sure if you know the history of Merced, but the Chinatown, which used to be one of the biggest and most prosperous in the Valley was, very much like some neighboring communities, located under what is now Hwy 99. They essentially razed Chinatown to make way for the freeway and created a second barrier (after the railroad) between "North" and "South" Merced. Talk to the director at the Merced Historical Society, she knows A LOT about this period of history.
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Post by caitlinfike on Nov 13, 2016 20:06:44 GMT -8
I am from Hanford, which is about 35 miles south of Fresno. Being a more rural area, there are a lot of farm workers resulting in predominantly Hispanic population. The naval air base in Lemoore brings in a large number of people or all different races. Crime has always been relatively low in Hanford, although there is a part of town that consists of lower income families that have developed some problems with gangs. The town has been growing rather quickly over the last 10-15 years and I think this contributes to the increase in crime rates. The demographics are all over the board, there are several wealthy farmers/dairymen as well as several more middle class people. There has been an increase in homeless and the number of people in the "bad" part of town. I never remembered seeing homeless people growing up, now they are rampant in the major shopping areas. Its been interesting to see the growth of this relatively small town and the influence it has on crime rates and other dynamics. There does seem to be a larger number of white people and Portuguese people on the north and the outskirts towards the east and west (I live in the outter north east part of town). There are several more Hispanics that live on the southside of town, although they seem to be pretty evenly spread throughout the town.
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2016 20:44:27 GMT -8
I am from Hanford, which is about 35 miles south of Fresno. Being a more rural area, there are a lot of farm workers resulting in predominantly Hispanic population. The naval air base in Lemoore brings in a large number of people or all different races. Crime has always been relatively low in Hanford, although there is a part of town that consists of lower income families that have developed some problems with gangs. The town has been growing rather quickly over the last 10-15 years and I think this contributes to the increase in crime rates. The demographics are all over the board, there are several wealthy farmers/dairymen as well as several more middle class people. There has been an increase in homeless and the number of people in the "bad" part of town. I never remembered seeing homeless people growing up, now they are rampant in the major shopping areas. Its been interesting to see the growth of this relatively small town and the influence it has on crime rates and other dynamics. There does seem to be a larger number of white people and Portuguese people on the north and the outskirts towards the east and west (I live in the outter north east part of town). There are several more Hispanics that live on the southside of town, although they seem to be pretty evenly spread throughout the town. I lived in Hanford, for awhile (6th - 10 grade and occasionally, thereafter) and my folks lived there for almost 20 years, from the 80s on. I always loved Hanford. It was the first community into which we moved when we came to California from North Dakota. I was used to the Swedes and Norwegians not getting along, with Natives showing up, occasionally, on the fringes of society, but (except when I lived in South Dakota) seldom interacting with the larger, white majority (choosing to stay on the reservation, in ND, and avoid contact). When I lived there, originally, there was just one Junior High (Woodrow Wilson) and a single, two-campus high school. Freshmen and Sophomores attended most of their classes on the West Campus, and Juniors and Seniors attended the bulk of their classes on the East Campus (students were often bused between the two campuses as Music was based on one campus and ag and related classes were on the other). What this meant, however, was that Hanford had neighborhood schools for k-6 (seven years), but then all students were together for 7-12 (six years) and there was very little "us'n'them" I have friends of all backgrounds -- which may be why I am the way I am, today. My friends were black, Hispanic, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Basque, and all sorts of other ethnic and racial backgrounds. For me, it was the most amazing thing -- it was like going into my very first large-scale department mall -- "This place has everything." The different foods, accents, languages, and physical characteristics fascinated me and I thought what a wonderful, amazing place in which to live. That said, there are now two junior highs and three high schools and there are no rivalries -- including gangs and other issues, none of which existed when I was younger. Hanford's still my favorite small town, in the area. If there was a full-time tenure-track job at the COS campus in Hanford or the West Hills campus, in Lemoore, I'd seriously consider a move (although, I love my Tower District home and my neighbors).
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Post by Matt on Dec 8, 2016 15:54:08 GMT -8
I was born and raised here in Fresno, CA, growing up I remember seeing different races where I went to school. I do remember however there being quite a bit more Hispanics than other races. After looking at the map I feel that it confirms the races that I saw as I was growing up. There are a lot Hispanics in the Fresno area along with patches of Asians. Although when I looked at the map I was not surprised to see two different colors from the Fresno to the Clovis areas. In the Clovis areas the majority of the people are white while in Fresno it is Hispanic.
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Post by mark on Dec 8, 2016 19:57:19 GMT -8
I have lived in the Fresno Area most of my life. Growing up here I have seen many diverse cultures and races. Something that I noticed is that, according to the red dot map, is that Fresno is a majority Hispanic. Which did not really surprise me because of the fact that, growing up, even though i have seen many diverse cultures, the main races that predominately live in Fresno are those who are Hispanic. Another thing that i found not so surprising is that Clovis, is predominately white. Which i dont think is surprising to anyone, because that is mainly what we see when going to Clovis. Also, i found it interesting that Clovis, was to me a safe place to live, from what i saw on the gun violence map.
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Post by macosta11 on Dec 14, 2016 11:45:56 GMT -8
I grew up in two different towns, I was born and raised for the early years of my life until the end of 1st grade in Selma California, after which I moved only a bit down south to a smaller town called Kingsburg. Looking at the dot map it does line up with what I saw when I was out walking around the towns and the schools. For the most part, Selma is a very densely formed hispanic community, with just speckles of others such as white and asians here and there based on the map. Kingsburg on the other hand which is about half the size of Selma, is a highly white based town with about 1/3 being hispanic and other races as well. Man let me tell you from experience, it showed, just walking around the town you saw things that you wouldn't normally see in Selma, parts of town that were nice and well kept with no scary looking older guys on their front lawns staring at you and calling out to you the whole time you were walking past to go home from school. Not to say all of Selma was like that but it has its areas, and so does Kingsburg, just less so. The school was something else as well, it was open campus, everyone was allowed to walk downtown to get their food they wanted from whatever business they felt like going to pay to get a burger or Chinese food. Selma has a closed campus, with id cards and metal detectors and strict clothing standards. It was an unusual change looking back at it, of course I never had to experience the high school in selma since I had left there so early, but regardless thats the difference between the two towns I grew up in
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Post by April on Dec 15, 2016 0:04:27 GMT -8
I was born and raised here in Fresno therefore have come to realize certain cultural patterns in the schools I have attended over the years. For example, in my earlier years my family lived in a lower income neighborhood therefore the majority of the kids I would see in school and in my neighborhood were Hispanics. This I believe was beneficial for me because I was able to gain a lot of insight on my culture and my parents were happy that I was following my traditions, this however changed when we became victims of several robberies in the neighborhood which is when my parents decided to move out of town into a safer neighborhood. My family and I now live in Fowler, Ca a very different community than Fresno. Here everyone knows each other and we have become the minority in all the schools. White and Asian are the primary races found in this city and since we have moved here, we have not seen any crimes being committed, leading me to conclude that the overpopulation in low-income neighborhoods causes a significant increase in crime rates.
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Post by astephchacon13 on Sept 29, 2017 19:28:12 GMT -8
Born and raised in Fresno, California! Since I can remember, the schools I have attended from preschool to middle school, have been pretty diverse. About half the class would be of a variety of races while the others, completing the classroom's population, where white. However, just because they were white did not mean they all looked the same, as some where redheads, natural blonds and more. It was not until middle school when I noticed the segregation. Some high schools in Fresno are known to have more of one race than another. Due to them being homeschools they reflect on the surrounding populations, for example Bullard High being prominently Caucasian and Edison High being mostly African American. Roosevelt high is full of Hispanics, being Hispanic myself that is not why I went there, but because Roosevelt is a magnet school and I joined to become an "actress". (Magnet meaning the school has a program you can join called "Roosevelt's School of the Arts" that allows you to be a part of their school even if your homeschool is another high school.) My homeschool was in fact Bullard High, but I felt way more comfortable surrounded with people I could relate to rather than at Bullard. Looking "The Racial Dot Map" I took into consideration the fact that it was a census was taken in 2010, which is super recent. Due to the fact I was born in the 90's, I would like to say it was a little less Hispanic but more Asians and African Americans. Now, I would agree that there are so many Hispanics (orange dots), including a couple Asians here and there (red dots) but there are not as many other races as I grew up to believe. I live near Bullard and Figarden Loop and the neighborhood is pretty safe. In the Gun Map it shows that in a mile radius there has been five shootings. One included a police officer resulting in a fatality, another one being a nonfatal-accidental and the last three others nonfatal. Compared to over places in Fresno I would still consider my neighborhood safe but again what I see around me is a diverse group of individuals.
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Post by dionfoster13 on Sept 29, 2017 21:37:42 GMT -8
Growing up, I have spend most of my childhood in the western suburbs of Fresno, California. I remember living in an all white neighborhood, with the exception of my family and the Hispanic family that lived across the street; and attended a school where a vase majority of the students where either Caucasian or Asian, so in almost all my classes I was the only African American student there. It wasn't until I attended middle school and high school when I started to notice a variety of different races; there, Hispanic and Asians seem to be the primary races. According to the Racial Dot Map, the area in which I grew up in consist of mostly the Caucasian race; and the area where I attended middle school and high school consist of mostly Caucasian and Hispanic, which is surprising because I though the Asians race would be bigger there. Gun violence has not been a huge issue in the area that I grow up in; according to the Gun Death Map there has been 4 shooting within the area that I have lived in in the last year, and only 1 on them was fatal.
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Post by kylerlorin on Oct 1, 2017 11:16:19 GMT -8
I was born and raised in Clovis California and attended Buchanan High School. Based on the map, when you cross over into Clovis from Fresno you can see a huge shift from majority Hispanic to majority White. Growing up in Clovis majority of people i met, were friends with, and dated were white. I am by no means bias against other races, i was just around majority White people. This is not to say i did not have friends of other races, or played sports with them, because there was, just not a lot. According to the gun violence map, Clovis also appears to be way less in terms of gun crimes compared to Fresno. These two maps show how segregated the two cities are and it is very surprising to see it this way. I would like to find out more information on how this happened, and why it is still happening today? Did it happen over time or was it always segregated like this? If anyone has any comments, i would love to hear what you thing about this.
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Post by terea on Oct 1, 2017 15:10:48 GMT -8
Although being raised in Fairmead, California for the first four and a half years of my life, my hometown is Madera. I spent the majority of my life there until recently moving to Fresno. When looking up the racial dot map the results are very accurate. The area is predominately Hispanic. In growing up I was usually the only Black girl in my classes, all of my friends growing up were Mexican. I tried to look for Black people on the map and there were a slim few, in clusters. These clusters were located around the “unsafe” southeast side of Madera. One thing that stuck out to me the most was that almost all of the White dots located on the map, were on the upper west side of Madera, which is considered the “good side of town”. So, it’s sad how even in small towns places are divided to segregate minorities into clusters in lower income areas where as many Whites live in the nicer sides of town.
“There have been 2 shootings within a 1-mile radius of this point in the past year, 1 fatal and 1 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 0.52 miles away.” Are the results I received on the Gun-Map. It’s crazy to know that there was a non-fatal shooting literally right down the street. You think in a small town with only around 60,000 people that shootings wouldn’t occur as often, or even in close proximity where it’s actually quite the opposite. I ventured around on the map to find there have been quite a few non-fatal and even fatal shootings throughout Madera. The sad, not so shocking part is they are on the East side of Madera, “bad side of town” or as a previous white manager of mine stated "the other side of the tracks". I decided to venture to Fresno, and the map lit up with red and yellow. There have been numerous shootings both fatal and non-fatal throughout Fresno, California. At my new address there have been 3 non-fatal shootings within .47 miles.
I feel the, one of many, things that truly makes me sad is that so many of these education articles are true. “Districts” are literally created to make them separate and UN-equal. One of my favorite quotes from the article was, “While many focus on policies that will bring more resources into these underserved districts, very few question why these lines exist in the first place.” Growing up I moved from a rural impoverish Fairmead, California then moved to the “hood” of Madera. Education where I lived wasn’t a strong point in the area therefore my mother had to go through numerous obstacles in order to “inter-district transfer me”. The process requires tons of paperwork, “valid” reasoning for the transfer, evidence to back up that reasoning, etc etc. So, if you’re a low-income parent who, as any parents would, wants your child to get a better education, putting “I want my child to get a better education” on the application as the reasoning behind the transfer wouldn’t be considered “valid”. Yet of course a “change of address” would. School districts themselves are the equivalent to redlining in the 21st century.
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Post by morabryan17 on Oct 2, 2017 9:19:31 GMT -8
I grew up in Lemoore, California, which is less than an hour away from Fresno. Looking at the map, I don't see one race completely stand out when compared to the rest. There seems to be a diverse amount of each in Lemoore, and living there for more than 10 years now, this makes sense to me. I've never lived in what you can call, "lower income neighborhoods", so from my perpective, Lemoore, has always been diverse but looking at certain parts of the maps there does seem to be some neighborhoods with more hispanics and blacks, and a lack of whites. This is interesting to me because before looking at the map, I didn't notice it but now that I could see where people in Lemoore live by their race or ethnicity, I realize that it's always been like that, I just wasn't paying attention.
There has only been one non-fatal shooting in Lemoore in the last year, which is what I did expect. I almost hear nothing about gun violence happening in Lemoore, so the gun map does look accurate to me. What was interesting though is that the place that it did occur happened to be the "lower income neighborhoods I mentioned before.
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Post by nolantrupp on Oct 2, 2017 10:14:18 GMT -8
I lived in Hanford for the first 20 years of my life up until just two months ago when I moved to Fresno for college. Looking at the dot map of Hanford, I can say that I am not surprised by the general pattern, but am very surprised by the harsh degree of separation of race. My whole life I had known that Lacey separated the 'good neighborhood' from the 'bad neighborhood' and that any place south of the highway was 'dangerous.' But looking at this map makes Lacey look like a border between countries, not just a road that runs through the center of town. The amount of racial zoning is astounding.
I went to middle school in the North East side of town at a predominantly white school, and I went to high school outside of Hanford. I never considered or experienced how spacially segregated the town really is. Thinking back, I do not think I have ever even gone south of the highway except to visit the DMV. I had never been exposed to that side of town. Seeing this map, I realize why. Certain members of my family are openly and extremely racist toward Hispanic people, and it is impossible to say that there is no correlation.
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Post by ashwin on Oct 2, 2017 13:45:33 GMT -8
I was born in Hayward California but we moved to Fresno when I was 2 years old, and have lived here ever since. Growing up I grew up with all sorts of people around me and thinking back in elementary school I didn't even know I was different than anyone else. In middle school was when I was really asked "what are you." From elementary school and throughout high school I always had friends of every race, religion and color. Seeing the map you can clearly see that, because you just see every color in the area I live. Now I work in Clovis and all you see is nothing but blue, and when I walk into work that is exactly what you see, only white people. It was just so shocking to see that what I saw at work is actually true, and I have a validity to why I feel out of place when I go to work.
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Post by daniel on Oct 5, 2017 12:00:18 GMT -8
Born and raised in Visalia, California I grew up on the south side of town where it is predominantly white. I always knew even from a young age that the North Side of town was heavily populated by Hispanics and African Americans. However I always thought that Visalia was fairly balanced in terms of race throughout the south side. Visalia is not too diverse as it is mostly populated by Hispanics and Whites. What surprises me is there is only a small amount of Asians in my area. There is not a lot of gun violence in my area, there are only a few of non-fatal shootings and 1 fatal shooting in the past 3 years.
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Post by Justin Jimenez on Oct 9, 2017 12:05:40 GMT -8
I was born in San Jose California, but moved to Fresno California at the age of eight. Growing up in San Jose there isn't much racial division. I remember going to different parts of the city and being around a majority of Hispanic and Asian descendants almost on an equal scale. I do however remember being told of the rich people living in the hill outskirts, but I myself never experienced it first hand, not because it was restricted but because I didn't have a reason to go. Where I currently live gun violence has been down, only over the past year did I have one major shooting that caused in uproar in my neighborhood, but its more of a rare occurrence. Given the raw numbers and severity of the law, I don't believe gun control or restricting the purchase of firearms is the correct answer as one of the articles believes. 579,000 violent crimes with guns occur annually. Though this number is drastically high and I agree perhaps some work is needed, it flops in comparison to the 2.1 million self defense reports each year. This proves that guns are not supposed to be a tool of violence and murderer, but rather a shield of defense. I agree not everyone uses it for its original intended purpose, but that does not mean it has no advantages.
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Post by Justin Jimenez on Oct 11, 2017 11:25:33 GMT -8
I have lived in Clovis/Fresno my entire life. Growing up in Clovis and going to school here in CUSD (Cole, Alta, and Buchanan) I noticed that everybody was majority white. The next most would probably be hispanics. On my football teams and other teams in Clovis, about 90% of the kids were white. The others consisted of Mexicans, Blacks, and Asians. My senior year football team had 3 blacks, 6 Mexicans, and 1 Asian. Even today, I coach football at Alta and my team is still majority white. Even the teachers in the school system were mostly white. My neighbors were mostly white. Even though my family lived in Clovis, the rest of my family lived in relatively poor parts of Fresno so I still got experience and see other ethnicities. Some of which you would call PWT and the rest are Mexican. Based on my observations growing up in Clovis, I wasn't shocked when I saw the racial dot map or the gun violence map. The part of Clovis I grew up in is mostly white and hispanic. Thats what I grew up knowing and I wasn't shocked to see that it is still like that today. Clovis is also relatively safe and I never saw any major violence happen growing up. So seeing that there on was only one gun death in the area I grew up didn't surprise me. I've been reading some of the other posts on this thread, and many agree that some form of unspoken discrimination exists within the Clovis community. Since I was born outside on the better side of Fresno, I haven't been exposed to that community, I'm just curious, have you felt some form of unspoken discrimination yourself? or was it a more pleasant experience? I was born in San Jose California and moved to the central valley at the age of eight, so most of my experience can't really tie to Clovis life, but I feel like most of my tension, when I go to Clovis, arises not so much from my own experiences, but rather what people tell me its like. I've never felt discrimination as a Chicano who would consider himself on the darker skin tone, but I'm just interested in your experiences.
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Post by Justin Jimenez on Oct 11, 2017 11:43:53 GMT -8
I was born in Hayward California but we moved to Fresno when I was 2 years old, and have lived here ever since. Growing up I grew up with all sorts of people around me and thinking back in elementary school I didn't even know I was different than anyone else. In middle school was when I was really asked "what are you." From elementary school and throughout high school I always had friends of every race, religion and color. Seeing the map you can clearly see that, because you just see every color in the area I live. Now I work in Clovis and all you see is nothing but blue, and when I walk into work that is exactly what you see, only white people. It was just so shocking to see that what I saw at work is actually true, and I have a validity to why I feel out of place when I go to work. Its not uncommon for groups of cultures to want to live next to each other. I went to visit Fullerton California for a convention last year and the entire city had Korean writing across buildings, school signs, billboards, and posters. It felt like visiting a foreign nation all the houses were built differently to meet that cultures demands, and when I went into a restaurant with my good friend, they looked at us like we were the odd ones who spoke English in a city that majority spoke Korean. I grew up in a similar situation where my friends and school mates were a mix, but as a child I lived in San Jose, California and attended my first years of elementary there and I can say that 95% were Hispanic descendants. From my entire neighborhood who spoke mainly Spanish, to the stores 10 miles out of my area, and we lived in a pretty good part of the city were all Hispanic. You say you feel differently when you go to work, is the feeling skin deep? Are you discriminated at work because you are not similar to your employers? Personally I want to move out of California into an area with less Hispanic people. for my own reasons, but mainly to become an individual separate from people who look similar to me. I commend you on taking that first step into a new life and mixing with different people, I'm sure you will change the lives of your coworkers for the better, for me I always wanted to travel the United States, but with so many Californians talking about how racist every state is other than California, I have been too scared to try, but I will take that chance, I will use your story and the testimony of others who have been exposed to large groups of other ethnic populations and one day travel this beautiful nation.
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Post by arthurapf on Oct 13, 2017 15:16:16 GMT -8
I was born in San Jose and lived there for about seven years until my family moved to an apartment in Fresno. We lived there for less than a year and then moved to the countryside outside of Clovis which is where I call home. My parents moved the family there because they liked the school district and the low crime rate. Growing up in the countryside and attending schools in the Clovis Unified School District I noticed that the town is predominately White and the only other racial groups that I noticed were Hispanics and Asians. Most of the Hispanics that I knew were Mexican including an old childhood friend and most of my former band mates from the Clovis High Marimba Band. Most of the Asians that I went to school with from elementary school to high school were Hmong. I first thought that they were Chinese because I did not know about Hmong people until after I moved to Clovis. I rarely saw Blacks in town and I probably remember seeing three or four black students at the schools. The Racial Dot Map confirms my findings as it shows that Old Town Clovis is mostly White with a few Hispanics and Asians and virtually no Blacks. A majority of the Hispanics live on the west and southwest side of town and most Asians live out in the countryside where I live. Although it is mostly seen as a "White Community" it is nice to see some significant diversity within my small home town of Clovis.
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2017 16:04:12 GMT -8
I was born and raised in Clovis California and attended Buchanan High School. Based on the map, when you cross over into Clovis from Fresno you can see a huge shift from majority Hispanic to majority White. Growing up in Clovis majority of people i met, were friends with, and dated were white. I am by no means bias against other races, i was just around majority White people. This is not to say i did not have friends of other races, or played sports with them, because there was, just not a lot. According to the gun violence map, Clovis also appears to be way less in terms of gun crimes compared to Fresno. These two maps show how segregated the two cities are and it is very surprising to see it this way. I would like to find out more information on how this happened, and why it is still happening today? Did it happen over time or was it always segregated like this? If anyone has any comments, i would love to hear what you thing about this. Clovis was, by law, officially all-white until the mid-1960s. There are so many stories about the racist past of this city and it's police, that entire books could be written and barely scratch the surface.
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Post by preet on Oct 30, 2017 12:47:19 GMT -8
Hello everyone, I lived all my life in Fresno. I have grown up with different races and cultures. It was very interesting and learning experience for me to know other cultures. I went to bullard high school where majority of the people were white, hispanic and some asians. When I looked at the map it’s was confirm the area I lived in mostly consist of white people and hispanics. While looking at gun shooting, I was surprised that their has been 10 shootings within 1 mile radius, it was devastating for me to know about this. Fresno map described how Fresno unified and Clovis unified schools are segregated, it described that there was huge difference in numbers between their poverty rate, median property value and median household income. Reports say the Fresno area schools among most segregated in the U.S. article says that 90 percent of fresno unified school students are eligible for lesser cost but only but just 34 percent and 43 percent of clovis unified were able to get the less costly meals. It is sad that students are even being jeopardize based on their race and to not have full meals. It was fascinating to read the article being white and minority in georgia, it explained how different races got attracted to job market. Before it was 95 percent of the population was white now it only consist of 20 percent. This article covered many facts about politics. For example, one of senators said he wanted to take care of the white people and not mexicans who were living illegally.
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