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Lockjaw has it right. You can't walk in and act like you're going to be running the place unless you've already earned some respect somehow. And you have to remember that when people are locked up, their world gets really small, so little things (like sitting in someone's chair) count for a lot. It's much better to lay low and get a feel for who's who first, and show them some courtesy.
This worked for me for about six months until I unfortunately got picked on by a Mexican woman and had to stand up for myself...the outcome was that I ended up having to associate myself with this awful white supremacist chick (I'm white), as much as I disagreed with her whole trip and disliked her personally, I needed the protection and it was better than having all 30 of the Mexicans in the place making my life a living hell. It didn't help that I was friends with the two black women in the place (there were only two of them), and it didn't help that I'm a free-thinking liberal, unbiased type. When you're in their world you have to play by their rules pretty much - it's adapt or lose, that simple. It's exactly like Lockjaw said, I ended up having to join a group I didn't really want to because nobody else was going to watch my back. The women, of course, aren't big on the whole ass-raping thing but they will do plenty of other things to mess with you if they take a dislike to you.
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