As Chaika switched Variegated with Diverse (which I would have done as well)...

Variegated - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionaryvariegated.
1. having patches, stripes, or marks of different colors <
2. full of variety

Examples:

1. the variegated costumes of the dancers in the nightclub.

2. a variety of variegated tulip that is highly prized by gardeners.
Romik,

The Washington, DC area has changed a lot since I was a kid growing up. When I was in elementary school, our neighborhood, with the exception of one black family who lived in a church owned house, was all white. They had to bus in the blacks from about 20 minutes away so that our school would be desegregated. Now that same neighborhood is predominantly black. The high school has metal detectors as guns were being brought to school. We are talking about a school 30 minutes away from Washington, D.C., not a BIG inner city school.

The neighborhood I live in now, when I was young, it was predominantly white and Jewish. There were a number of Jewish delis and stores. Now it has been taken over by the Hispanics (45.5% of local high school) and blacks (22.3% of local high school) and is a very poor area with 67.2% of the students on Free and Reduced Meals (FARMS). The former Jewish stores are now Hispanic or Ethiopian.

It is interesting for me to see how my daughters interact with other races/ethnicity/gender. I would say they are much more color blind than my generation and even more so than my parents and grandparents. The same goes for how they interact and treat Gay/Lesbian students. When I went to school, we didn't know about such things and if we did, no one talked about it or "came out of the closet." Now other students are openly gay/lesbian/bi. Or... they friends have parents who are gay.

It is not a big deal to my girls and their friends. Whatever you look like, sound like or have feelings for... it is all good to them. If they do have a friend who is really biased, they usually just dump that friend or not discuss those issues with them. Sometimes it's the older generation who have the hardest time with adjusting to this new mentality. A number of their friends have parents with very strict and old fashioned values (Seven Day Adventist or Jehovah Witnesses or new immigrants). Their children however, don't have those same values or ideas about who is acceptable and who is not. But I think that has been true for each new generation... at least in this area of the U.S.