Living in a Bubble

[onejayhawk]

Everyone does. Whether your particular boundary is racial, economic, social or cultural, simple math says you are cut off from some significant groups. It is hardly perfect, but RCP has a demographic tool we can play with. Sorry, but this works only for USA.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...tive_tool_do_you_live_in_a_bubble_133113.html

Input your postal zip code. It will give several demographic features of your neighborhood. My zip is 76707. Hispanic is almost 50%, with slightly more blacks than whites. It's not exactly Trump country.

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[bernie14]

yup, being an individual is a lonely business

 

[NovaKart]

I kept thinking about this as the Seinfeld bubble boy episode. I tried entering American zip codes I've actually lived in but they've never worked for me.

 

[BvBPL]

Examining groups outside your bubble is like looking to a distant constellation that’s dying in the corner of the sky. That said, thanks to the internet, these are the days of miracle and wonder when it comes to intergroup communication. We can have the camera follow us in slo-mo and broadcast across the world as a way to reach out to others. These staccato signals of constant information allow us to reach out to broad ranges of people. Somewhere there’s someone who believes there are lasers in the jungle, and now we can pick up a long distance call and talk to them. The way to get out of your bubble is to help people get out of their own.

 

[Glassfan]

Highly overrated.

 

[civvver]

Well the tool is pretty dumb tbh. Just cus you are physically present in a less diverse area doesn't mean you live in a bubble, since there is this thing called the internet.

But it is interesting, my neighborhood is 90% white, ~40% college overall compared to ~30% nationally, and median household income is 67k vs 53k nationally. We moved here about 18 months ago from just across town, but my old zip is incredibly different, 70% white and 20% black. Blacks though have a 50% rate of college degree, median income at old zip was basically national average. I remember when we first moved here and going to fast food restaurants, it was unusual to see zero minorities working there, since typically a lot of minorities work at fast food restaurants in our old neighborhood. Instead it was all white high school kids with a couple middle aged white managers. Really weird.

I do kind of miss the diversity a bit, just cus every person seems exactly the same, everyone has 2.5 kids, white collar service jobs, it's just strange and kind of boring.

 

[warpus]

Living in a bubble would make it very difficult to meet other people. You'd have to stay in the same supervised room every single day, probably resigned to screwing around on the internet, reading, watching TV, or if you're lucky playing board games through a thing

 

[Lexicus]

We are in bubbles, not because of where we live, but due to the inherently limited nature of a human perspective.

 

[The_J]

Living in a bubble would make it very difficult to meet other people.

I'm having a hard time finding out if this is a joke or not .



Can't use the tool, but I know that I live in a bubble.
Small university town with a high rate of foreigners.
So my bubble is younger than average, more diverse than average, higher educated than average, more left wing and alternative than average, less religious than average and the income level is split somewhere between higher than and below average (between students and employes; not considerably higher than average ^^).
And I know like 5 people native to this country, which makes it even more obvious ^^.

EDIT: My personal bubble is just by accident also more sporty than average, and speaks more Spanish than average.

 

[danjuno]

I was suprised by how wealthy my zip is. Martinsburg is pretty run down for the most part. I was also surprised to see that Black people and Latinos were above national average in college education, while Whites and Asians were below it.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Well I mean I obviously live fairly isolated from people out of town

and even people in town

roughly 100 % of the world's population