Are some bloggers promoting ethnic divisions in the blogging world?
26. Aug, 2007 
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Ronald gave me an idea to turn my thoughts about this topic into a question. Before I ask you the question, please take a moment to remember the last time you came across a blog where the blogger listed his or her ethnicity, and listed other bloggers who were from the same ethnicity.
Keeping that in mind, I would like to ask you a very important question: do you notice more and more bloggers promoting bloggers and readers who are from their own ethnicity?
I wonder if such a trend can ever become, or already is, the same as racism and discriminating against other ethnicities in the offline world. Please let me know what you think about this topic or such a trend. Thank you. 
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I sure hope not Bes.
I know here in the states, de-facto segregation seems to be the rule more than the exception. I would hate to see the blogosphere turn into a bunch of people who only link to or associate with others based on country, religion, or race.
I don’t see it happening right now enough to cause alarm. While developing the Ajax Edit Comments plugin, I’ve interacted with a bunch of different people from many nationalities and languages and all have been kind to me.
I write for WLTC, and the admin there is of Indian decent, and here I am half-Mexican.
And then you have this blog where the authors are all over the place. So I don’t think this is a growing trend, and if it is a trend, I’m really scared for the future of blogging.
I did not notice such a trend, either. I have connections with bloggers from lots of places (to my shame, sometimes I have to look at the world’s map to see where exactly some countries are), and I never felt any discrimination.
I’ve just remembered a discrimination case which upset me: Associated Content claims to pay people for original content they submit, while, in reality they pay only USA residents. The rest of the world can only submit content for free.
There was a great discussion of this a while ago on Blogrhet – http://blogrhet.blogspot.com/ – not necessarily about promoting the divisions, but about the role of ethnicity in how bloggers are approached, etc.
Personally, it doesn’t matter to me what a person’s background is; if I like them I’ll read them and link to them.
Sephyroth
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Sephyroth,
I do admit to bringing my “American” stereotypes into the blogosphere. But the more I deal with people from France, China, Australia, Malaysia, Canada, Germany, Romania, India (and many more)… the more my stereotypes are breaking down.
Within America there are many stereotypes and racial/ethnic barriers just within our own border. I can imagine it is the same way elsewhere too.