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Growing up in a small town we did not have a very diverse community. In class when we were discussing the differences between the city and the suburbs I could not really join in because a small town is different then both of them. We were not diverse but a few minorities did live in our town. The thing was it seemed that people would pester them so much that they would assimilate. I had a friend who moved her when we were in 5th grade. He was Chinese and the kids would ask him how to say things in Chinese. After a while he got so fed up with this that he basically stopped speaking Chinese completely. In my mind this just showed how a lot of people think assimilation can make it easier to survive and prosper in a predominantly white town.