Do You Prefer to Hangout with People of Your Own Race / Ethnicity?

Swedish?

 

lol

 

I absolutely hate my kind

 

I prefer to hang out with mulattos, mestizos, albinos and aborigines and an occasional eskimo, but only during winter months. In summertime, I enjoy spending more time with laplanders and pygmies. I have a couple of menehune friends, too. But, I can't stand the french.

 

If you're willing, it is relatively easy to hang with people of different races, ethnicities, cultures. It's much, much harder to hang with folks above your socio-economic peg or even with people who just think you are below them.

Similarly, I suspect most folks would find it tough to hang out with people who would be considered below them on the socio-economic scale... at least for an extended period.

 

No preference. The only time I would recognize people based on race/ethnicity is if they were North Korean or something, and that's only because I'm interested in what they know about their traditional culture.

Race/ethnicity is meaningless. IMO the theory that you're more/less comfortable around "your" people is a giant myth imprinted into our heads. Angelina Jolie's adopted kid won't know anything about his "original" homeland, race, culture, attitudes, etc except what they're taught.

It's completely superficial and we make it snowball by thinking about things like which race/ethnicity is best for who/what/where.

Not a direct shot at the OP, but imo 99% of the time when you combine race/ethnicity recognition with trying to establish differences/similarities, it's racist.

As the human race, I feel like we are so far from eliminating racism, though I do feel that we've been very succesful at eliminating intentional racism (versus racism from stupidity).

 

Well I'm an Australian but 100% Chinese background. I've grown up in Australia but I've learned to speak Mandarin and Shanghai dialect fluently besides English. Even though I've grown up in Australia, my parents have made me accustom to the Chinese culture. I think those Chinese/Taiwanese who aren't accustomed to speaking English find themselves comfortable talking to me in their native language and I have no problem with that. I think of myself as an Aussie, but because I don't look like the stereotypical Aussie (Blonde hair, white) I think people think twice about approaching me. Forunately, there are some exceptions and other ABC's which I get along with .
I generally have no preference of ethnicity, but for some reason most of my friends(more than half) are of Asian descent!

 

Agree. "When In Rome..."

Assimilation is harder than it seems. Because societies are made on culture. Unless its about pure survival, people don't want to give up their culture. They want to carry on "traditions", which will certainly be lost if they blend with another group or let in another one that doesn't recognize it. Its a loss of identity. A prayer heavy Muslim Middle Easterner will not want to give up their culture for an agnostic/atheist African American.

In this age of "Why Do We Have To", we don't want to understand the person that says "WE MUST Continue To". I think thats as big a deterrent as race or anything. Its basically who will compromise their culture to blend first. Because no group of people sees anything inherently wrong with how they are.

 

I hang out with all races but all else being equal, I feel more comfortable hanging out with my own people because there is a much lower chance that they will be racist against me. If they are sell-hating racists, they probably wouldn't be hanging out with my anyway.

 

You hang out with the people you are close too. If your neighborhood is majority of any race you will be hanging out with that race.

 

I think a lot of people hang out with the people we want to be like or identify with. The people we look up to or we feel comfortable around. The people we respect. It can do with social status, personality, or race.

Personally, I hang out with cool peeps yo. Don't matter what race they are!

 

WHOA! Scolaisknuckleballin! When did you get back?

 

our closest friends in NYC are Indian, Chinese american, japanese american, and white (4 couples). one of the indian dudes is from a muslim family. among my other close friends (i'd say there are probably four that really fit that category), one is black, the other three white. out of all of the above, there's two that could reliably be called "conservative," and not a social conservative in the bunch.

 

being japanese, and having grown up in houston, i have mostly asian, white, and hispanic friends. now that i live in tokyo, most of our friends here are japanese. i think the people you tend to hang around are people you have common interests with. before we had our daughter, we hung out with mostly couples without kids. now that we have a child, we hang out with other parents.

it has nothing, nothing to do with race.

 

As far as friends go, I seem to gravitate toward privileged single people who worry more about philosophy and politics than paying bills, and they mostly tend to be white, with a few Asians and Hispanics sprinkled in. I know a few people from Africa, but I don't have many black American friends. I had a more diverse group of friends at UH. I've gotten kinda lazy about going out and meeting new people, which is a shame, but if there's any city in which to commit to encountering different cultures, it's Houston.

I am like one of those "Stuff White People Like" entries.

 

All my friends were asian or some combination when I lived on the pacific rim (west side).

My best friend in the Army was black (shout out to Cleveland!)

As a bartender in El Campo my best friends were white/mexican country folks.

Now living in the surburbia of liberal rich Denton, Texas, most of my friends are white or gay or outstanding f'n musicians.

I just mentioned these as an example of how race has nothing to do with who you hang out with, just environment (to include SO's established friendships).

Of course, if you're a racist, it ain't going to matter where you live.

 

This. /Thread

 

This manifests itself in my life with education more than wealth. My childhood friends are mostly poor and poorly-educated because of the neighborhood I grew up in. But, as an adult, my circle (besides my childhood friends) tends to be well-educated, regardless of race or money. I think I have a stronger cultural bond along academic lines than through common ground in economic class or racial/national origin. That makes more sense to me anyway. If I can't have a conversation about philosophy or literature or science or whatever, what are we going to talk about that interests me? Basketball is the only saving grace.

 

I guess I prefer to hang out with other white people. I don't mind hanging out with any race, but it does feel weird when I go someone as the only white person, or at least in the vast minority. My best friend is Vietnamese though.

 

So what you are saying is that you have 12 imaginary friends?