Nazi-themed O.C. teen party doesn’t surprise some students: ‘That’s the way it is’

latimes.com – By Matthew Ormseth and Lilly Nguyen – Jarring as the photos were, Jocelyn Navarro, a junior at Newport Harbor High School, said she wasn’t surprised when they surfaced on Snapchat and Twitter Sunday morning. Not by the red cups arranged in a swastika. Not by the arms outstretched in Nazi salutes. Not even by the gleeful expressions worn by the high school students hoisting them. “Every one of them was laughing,” said Jocelyn, 16. “They all had smiles on their faces.”

The images have sent shockwaves across Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, with politicians and school officials strongly condemning the behavior. Newport-Mesa Unified School District officials are investigating the incident and are holding a town hall meeting tonight.

But to some students, the photos underscore larger attitudes in the school system that have sown divisions. At Newport Harbor, she said, students group themselves along racial lines: Hispanic students with other Hispanics, whites with whites. It is less intentional than unconscious, she said: “White people stay together, Mexicans stay together. We naturally just do it because we know that’s the way it is.”

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