The multiracial experience frequently corresponds, Choi says, with higher rates of violence and substance use. “Consistently multiracial youth show, in almost all behavior problems—alcohol, smoking, marijuana, fighting—more problems than other children.”
In the Seattle survey, conducted among 10—to 14-year-olds at four public schools in lower-income neighborhoods, multiracial respondents were significantly more likely than their monoracial peers to have ever smoked.
The differences in violent behavior were even more striking. Multiracial youths were 63 percent more likely than white respondents to have been in a fight and 65 percent more likely to have threatened to stab someone.
Their more violent because their being harassed by other students in school. The whites are ganging up on them. Kids/teens never change. Im not defending the whites or the minorities. This shit goes on everyday. Not just in school but in this lame world. I know what their going through. I was harrassed in school. And Im white. Dont matter what race you are, it only takes one prick to cause trouble. This is an interesing topic by the way...