How many of you make having friends of different races apart of your socila life? (member, attractive)
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Do you only want to be around your own race when it comes to friendsships or do you make a consertive effort to have friends of different races/ethnic groups?
I'm not talking about work related situations where you only interact while at work.
I'm lost. I never understood this "try to make friends with so-and-so" thing. I never tried. If it happened, it happened. Even when you layered your effort with race, it'd still not be something to try to do, I don't think. It all seems so engineered rather than natural.
I have friends who are black, Mexican, Asian, Russian, Japanese, and even Californians. Hearing about different cultures and just the little differences in thinking is fascinating. But I have discovered that people are just people. Everyone has the same happiness, fears, struggles, and issues as the next guy.
Oh I don't make an effort, look there's a Klingon, I'm gonna make nice. Guess I'm more open than some folks.
I'm lost. I never understood this "try to make friends with so-and-so" thing. I never tried. If it happened, it happened. Even when you layered your effort with race, it'd still not be something to try to do, I don't think. It all seems so engineered rather than natural.
I am in the business community a great deal in my city. I make bbreat efforts to do business with other ethnic groups. I go where they are and try to create long-term relationships.
That's the same way I am with my friendships.
I am the Director Of Finance, I make hiring decisions. I make effrots to hire women and blacks in Finance positions. Mainly because diversity is good and getting different perspectives from a diverse groupd of people is great too.
Most of my friends are a different "race" than me. Its more about who I enjoy spending time with and care about. There also aren't a lot of other people of my race in my current city.
I am in the business community a great deal in my city. I make bbreat efforts to do business with other ethnic groups. I go where they are and try to create long-term relationships.
That's the same way I am with my friendships.
I am the Director Of Finance, I make hiring decisions. I make effrots to hire women and blacks in Finance positions. Mainly because diversity is good and getting different perspectives from a diverse groupd of people is great too.
That's the same way I am with my friendships.
I'm an accounting major and have been noticing that very few women reach higher level positions in finance/accounting type jobs.
I have interned at an insurance company and interviewed at another one and it seriously felt like I traveled in time at both companies. All of the managers were white men with similar backgrounds and they all had young attractive interns/assistants most of whom were white women. It was like being in Mad Men.
At the other insurance company, I was taken on a tour of the office with a group of 20 other prospective interns (18 men, 2 women including myself). One employee came up to the HR lady who was giving us a tour and told her to hire more women because everyone there was a man!
I never got that job. I wonder if the other girl did. Those two companies which are both F100 insurance companies really turned me off to ever working full-time at an insurance company again. This happened in 2012.
i have friends who are black, mexican, asian, russian, japanese, and even californians. Hearing about different cultures and just the little differences in thinking is fascinating. But i have discovered that people are just people. Everyone has the same happiness, fears, struggles, and issues as the next guy.
Oh i don't make an effort, look there's a klingon, i'm gonna make nice. Guess i'm more open than some folks.
I am really particular about applying the term "friend" to someone. They really have to be trustworthy, and I can count my true friends on one hand.
So, seeing as how that is the case for me, I can't imagine further narrowing the potential friend pool by selecting people based on race or ethnicity. If it happens that way great, if not, whatever.
I don't make an "effort" to make or have friends of a different race.
However, I've ended up with two very close friends of a different race/color/what have you and it was completely, well, meh and unintended and in fact I can barely believe I'm posting about it here because seriously it should be an unremarkable thing..
So, yeah. Friends as in, would loan/borrow money to and from, would and have help move, have their house keys in case of emergency, have visited in hospital, know family members, will look after dog in case of emergency.
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