Going Undercover to Study Race Relations

Stanford sociologist Monica McDermott spent a year working in a South Carolina discount store to see how an influx of Hispanic immigrants is changing the area's social dynamics.

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• race relations
• immigration
• latino
• racial tensions
• Hispanic immigration

[grunder20]

racism is the only problem.

[platonicbomb]

"there's a lack of national will to stop Arizona's law" she says, which is just another way of saying you didn't have to travel all the way to SC to study this phenomenon. You could have studied it in, say, CA.

[hhn1000]

Well, this is after all....Stanford.  Grievance politics thrives there.

[chumbucket843]

as a citizen of this state i will say that no one cares about mexican immigrants (or at least where i live). they, unlike a lot of people, are happy to have a job even if it is manual labor in 110 degree weather with heat index. as long as they pay taxes and die like the rest of us its all good.

[observer855]

@observer855  cont'd - That might actually add/create more value, as opposed to this constant regurgitation of people dont like immigrants. How about producing something worthwhile that actually moves the ball forward. For the situation to evolve, we need to understand the entire issue, not one slice of it (i.e. how white people dont treat non-whites nicely).

[observer855]

Monica, How about studying and mapping minoritys views towards the majority? How about studying the immigrant's perspective towards the people and culture which they are entering?

[utfanatic2000]

If we agree that, as a nation, we will not allow completely unrestricted immigration, then we have a duty to responsibly enforce immigration limits and laws. If the Federal government is not willing or able to enforce its own limits, it falls to the states to do what is in their best interests, consistent with Federal law, to limit illegal immigration.

[namitsu1]

@system0system0 You can't deny that immigration has it's influences, she is just studying those.

[system0system0]

omg thats wat i call a stupid job. Only in south carolina . How did i get to this video shit

[Ontologistics]

But what's your point? She states the blatantly obvious. A normative left-liberal bias is also suggested.