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But they also show what looks like a glimmer of hope for integration: cities are remarkably diverse during the work day.
但这些变化也显示了种族融合还是有希望的：工作日城市的人种还是非常多样化的。
This got researchers interested in looking closer at what's at work.
这也让研究人员对到底是什么在起作用有了深入研究的兴趣。
Let's look at how segregation has changed in recent year.
我们先看看近年来种族隔离问题都发生了怎样的变化。
From 2000 to 2010, residential segregation between black and white people got slightly better.
从2000年到2010年，黑人和白人之间的居住隔离问题有了轻微的改善。
For the most part, segregation just mostly plateaued for all racial groups.
就大多数情况而言，所有种族群体的种族隔离问题基本持平。
But when researchers looked at how segregation changed during the day, when we're at work,
但当研究人员观察种族隔离问题在白天，也就是在我们工作的时候的变化情况时，
they found that segregation increased slightly across all racial groups.
他们发现，各个种族的种族隔离问题都略有加重。
When we zoom in some more to the company level, we can see a bit more of what's actually happening.
进一步放大到公司层面可以看到更多实际发生的问题。
Researchers at Stanford and Harvard found, within a company, segregation levels have gone down very little.
斯坦福大学和哈佛大学的研究人员发现，在一家公司内部，种族隔离问题几乎没怎么缓解。
In other words, we're exposed to about as much diversity now as we were a generation ago.
换句话说，现在职场人种的多样性和上一代人其实是差不多的。
But there are a lot more people of color now than there were in 1980.
但现在职场上有色人种的数量是比1980年时多得多的。
So what's going on?
那这到底是怎么回事呢?
Well, they aren't being more represented at these white-majority companies, which would look like this.
原来，有色人种员工在这些白人占主体的公司中的代表率并没有得到提高，就像这样。
Rather, they are getting opportunities at companies that are mostly non-white, over here.
相反，他们在这边的非白人公司获得了更多的机会。
So this means that, when we look at this from a company level,
这就意味着，当我们从公司的层面来看这个问题时，
segregation has actually gotten worse than a generation ago.
结果是现在的种族隔离问题比上一代人时的更严重了。
Of course, some places are pretty diverse.
当然，人种多样化的公司也还是有的。
So researchers looked at what kinds of places actually have less segregation during the day.
所以，研究人员也对哪些地方白天的种族隔离问题更轻的问题进行了研究。
But they found that, if a place is diverse during the daytime,
但他们发现，如果一个地方白天人种多样性较高，
it's likely not because people of all races are working alongside each other.
很可能不是因为所有种族的人都在一起工作。
Rather, it's likely because most of the higher status workers, like managers, are white.
相反，可能是因为大多数职位较高的员工，比如经理，都是白人。
and the lower-status workers, like janitors, are people of color.
而门卫之类职位较低的员工是有色人种的缘故。
American policies engineered our segregated homes.
民众家庭的隔离问题是我们国家的政策造成的。
But work — where we spend most of our time?
那职场，我们度过大部分时间的地方呢？
Many thought that could be a space where we form meaningful relationships with people of other racial backgrounds.
很多人都觉得这是我们与其他种族背景的人建立重要关系的地方。
That hasn't quite happened.
但事实往往并非如此。
And we can see it in the most personal parts of our lives.
从我们生活中最私密的部分也能看出这一点。
In 2014, the Public Religion Research Institute asked Americans
2014年，公共宗教研究所的研究人员要求大家
to list the people with whom they “discussed important matters” in the past six months.
列出过去6个月里他们与其“讨论过重要问题”的人的名单。
In other words, our friends.
换句话说，也就是我们的朋友名单。
Most Hispanic people had friends of other races.
大多数西班牙人都有其他种族的朋友。
About one in three black people did, too.
大约三分之一的黑人也是如此。
But 75 percent of white people only had white friends.
但75%的白人只有白人朋友。
In short, we may be exposed to diverse spaces, but we still live very segregated lives.
简而言之，可能我们虽然已经身处一个人种多样性的环境里，但还是过着非常隔离的生活。
"But the whole trouble with this integration business is
“这种融合的全部问题在于
that in the end it probably will end up with mixing, socially. And will..."
最终可能引起社交上的混合，而且……”
