The lack of diversity in school and neighborhoods have affected the United States in a negative ways. Students are often impacted by this lack of diversity and it effects, in public schools. One of the negative impacts that the lack of racial and ethnic diversity has caused for students is that it creates more bullying based on race and ethnicity, especially to minority students. Said brings this up in his article “Two Lessons in Prejudice” where he brings up how he and his white friends would make fun of a kid from the MIddle East because he wore different clothes and had a different accent from them (Said). Another negative impact the lack of racial diversity has on students is the outcome of their success rate. Many black students who go to segregated school made smaller gains in reading than black students who went to a integrated school (Rebecca).
