Why don't all people get along?

[gemmadivita]

As part of my class’s field research in public policy, I am hoping to better understand urban segregation and integration. This includes a variety of reasons why people seek to avoid those they see as very different from themselves: economic disparities, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability status, and so on. I want to conduct research that will help my
readers understand the rationale for segregation and integration, as well as their positive and negative impacts. With this understanding, I’ll propose public policies to amplify benefits and mitigate detriments of urban integration and segregation.

[humbersloop]

fair enough, but pikelets arer 60p for six at the moment, although granted poor at mopping gravy

[douglas9401]

Is it Warburtons bread and is there a prize? :)

[albaqwerty]

No prize Douglas, unless you know what a shoe shop is.

[craft1948]

Shoe shops are the reason for living.....................

[Kiki-frog]

Eeee, we used to dream of shoe shops down our way. Best we could do was to wrap chip paper from three weeks ago round t'feet.

[humbersloop]

On the segregation point, though, our near neighbours are the ultra-posh Sam Cam's uber-toff parents and they always have open house - except they charge an entry fee. Surely mixed messages here?

[dotty.]

they have a public policy in the village to amplify benefits and mitigate detriments, they've put an awning on the back of the pub.

[dotty.]

so's smokers don;t get rain in their pint

[dotty.]

when i say awning, i mean an old market stall tarpaulin, but it's waterproof,

[humbersloop]

^^applauds dotty's local

[craft1948]

Well posh that dotty....................

[Nibble]

Still got a local, dotty, you lucky bu99er, have to walk 3 mile down road, over hill, kick sheep out o' way.. then find it's only open wed afternoon....


A local - we dream of that here!

[dotty.]

my son is the manager too, which is a bonus. he won;t serve me though as he says i'm disruptive. i only asked the bloke playing snooker to mind where he was poking.

[humbersloop]

perhaps understandable, if harsh

[Nibble]

a reasonable request in snooker as cues are dangerous weapons in the hands of unreasonable people.

[craft1948]

You should have threatened to pinch his chalk.................

[humbersloop]

an offer to rack his balls may have been the deciding incident, but that's just hearsay

[ludwig]

People like being around other people that are similar to themselves. It makes them feel safe. They distrust others who are different.

I suppose the origin of it is evolutionary. If you hang around in gangs of the same species you tend to be safer from predators, and it's easier to find a mate.

[wildwood]

^^ Yeah, like attracts alike.

[seadogg]

Lived among Indians for a while and was amazed at the way the different castes behaved towards each other. Far worse than any racial prejudice I've seen.

shame about Lancashire pit villages dotty. Remember how they used to be.