Is segregation natural?

Was the idea of integration just a pointless dream that would end up being all for naught?

Integration only happened because whites failed to live up to their end of the bargain when it came to separate but equal facilities. Had the fountains been equally as cold, had the quality of everything for blacks have been just as good as whites, then blacks would not have had any problems with segregation.

Maybe the thing that goes wrong with segregation is that one group tries to be superior and oppress everyone and thus kind of ruins the concept of segregation and in a way causes their own demise sort of with the introduction of integretion but...

When you look at society today, it is still segregated...people willingly segregate themselves. Yes I have seen blacks and whites say "hey" to one another, tolerate each other, and managed to be peaceful to each other, at least to the face. But in the end, each person seems to be more closer to the people who are their race.

I have experienced it for myself, being raised white by my white mom caused me to have this "natural" inclination to the white side, and it was always hard for me to understand why I was never truly accepted as a "member" of the group. I have heard several excuses, but what it comes down to is that I am one of few minorities they seemed to have any contact with...I was the token friend they would use as their excuse to justify their racism to everyone.

I didn't become racially aware until about a year ago (through the most unexpected of ways).

You may be asking where would a biracial person fit in the world of segregation? Sure, by default we are black, but having a white parent kind of makes it a little harder to see ourselves as black.

There is a reason us mulattoes often are loners or "tragic", we long to fully fit in one of the two worlds but can't...we are both worlds, worlds that can't get along at all.

I think segregation is natural, in every form possible, from race, to gender, to people who share like ideals. We want to be around like minded people. Why? Because we want peace. We want as few problems possible, when you bring in someone who is different, you potentially bring in someone who will cause a disruption, who will shake your world.

Although, a good argument against this lifestyle, I actually have gotten straight from the Bible...

Proverbs 12:15 Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others. (NLT)

The downside to being around those who are look like you, talk like you, act like you, and like the same things as you, is that it makes you unwelcome to difference, to the point that people have to feel like segregation is better and the natural order of things. When we deprive ourselves of differences of opinion, lifestyle, and culture, its hard to be welcoming then because we have trapped ourselves.

Its just like with trying to make an orderly and predictable lifestyle...it does us more harm because it unprepares us for the unpredictable and it stresses us out and throws us into pandamonium when unpredictability disrupts the fabric of our predictable lifestyle.

So is segregation in the end, natural? Well, it is if we keep it that way, if we stay intent on living in a lifestyle that is unwelcoming to differences of any sort. But if we open ourselves up to everything, in a couple of generations, people would feel segregation is unnatural...but of course this leaves 2 questions that really can't be answered right now:

1. What is the fine line in being open to differences (are there some things that we have to find unacceptable to our standards?)
2. Is segregation actually natural because in times of war or great suffering people have shown to distrust those different from them? Especially when propaganda convinces them so. Or better yet, would suffering and war unravel any openess to differences thus proving that man naturally segregates and prefers like mindedness and no matter how much integretion and openess one has over time, segregation will ultimately trump it?