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I personally agree with Benjamin. America is becoming a very diverse place, where as he said, white people will no longer be the majority. As America is getting more diverse, its almost as if we're becoming separated as societies, and more whites are migrating to these "whitopias" are becoming more frequent. It may not necessarily be because these people are racist, but because of the benefits it brings them to move to these places. It divides us as Americans, however, with one type of person living in one place, and another type living in another place, and something like that is not what makes this country, "America."
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Benjamin discovered how there can be racism without racists, as he traveled through the whitest neighborhoods he could find, he found that many of the people living in these white neighborhoods, or "Whitopias" were very kind, and live where they do for a number of push and pull factors, push factors being things such as crowded schools or population density, and pulled towards it because of the luxurious life it brings, playing golf and fishing. Through the trip Benjamin got to see all of this and talks about it in his TED talk.
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