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Why do people tend to self-segregate? For example, blacks sit with blacks at the lunch table, Asians with Asians, etc.

This is my understanding of if. I am a tall big black male. I am about 6 feet 3 inches and appear very muscular, ” I have been told ”, or maybe it is a polite way of saying I am fat. I have a loud voice and I notice that even when I am talking to some people take a step back. Some people do find me threatening. I have worked all over the UK initially as a Medical Doctor and later as an IT Consultant. I have been to interviews, and have heard that people call me “ a very big black guy ” when describing me to the recruitment agency. Their eyes often light up and they say that they imagined me looking differently over the phone. On public transport, the seat next to me is sometimes left empty on both sides. Usually based on comparing it with other similar sections in the carriage, these places are usually the last places to be filled, statistically based on my observations, if the seats were being filled randomly it should not be so, hence I often remain standing to avoid embarrassi...

Science and Religion

Sometimes there are things from the scientific narrative of life and our existence that doesn't make sense. But to tell you the truth in the age of quantum mechanics, special relativity, t hermodynamics,  e lectromagnetic field theory, string theory, etc  these relatively new concepts or phenomena re quire a new form of thinking and a total rewiring of our brains. Because on the surface they do not make sense to a lot of us. Hence, it pains me when preachers some of whom, appear on the surface to be very educated individuals (with their Masters and doctorate degrees, business acumen and experience) and should know better are against science. Going further to ridicule things they do not fully grasp or understand. These preachers go against scientific observations which form the basis of the various conclusions. I think it could be presumptuous and arrogant for a person, to preach that all science is wrong and the theories that science brings forwar d be it climate change, evo...