BielerCLUEstep2

I went to the commons for a half hour for dinner. As I was there, I observed the people around me and they seemed to be majorly girls with girls and boys with boys. Almost every table or booth that I saw had all girls or all boys. A few were a mixture of both, but that was only a couple. I also noticed that everyone was sitting with someone else and mostly different ethnicities were sitting together. It seemed like almost everyone sitting at the tables together were the same race. I only saw one team that was a mixture of guys, but they seemed to be on the same team because of what they were wearing. I saw some girls that were just sitting with girls from their sororities, and a lot of the people wore similar styles. Most of the talk consisted of gossip about what was going on in their lives, classes, and parties that they attended this past weekend. The girls seemed to talk and laugh louder than the guys, though everyone seemed to be enjoying who they were sitting with. Most of the girls would get food together instead of leaving one of their friends alone. Girls seemed to be standing together in the food lines and socializing while they were waiting. All of these observations made me think about why is it that people seem to always need to be with someone else while they are eating? Is it to seem like they have friends or because they really want to spend time with those people? What causes girls to mainly sit with girls and boys to sit with boys? Why do different ethnicities seem to stick together? This made me realize that maybe society hasn't changed as much as we think. Is there still that level of being uncomfortable around different genders or ethnicities?