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I'm white. Live in East Asia. Wife is East Asian. Child is half of each of us.
Have always had friends of different races, despite growing up in a largely white small town. There were a few blacks in my hometown. My Father's business partner was one of them.
Race really isn't a big deal. Its culture that really separates us.
In your personal life, do you have friends of different racial backgrounds?
I think it's something most people don't even think about, but I thought it would be an interesting thing to ask.
I don't really have a large circle of friends that I hang out with on a regular basis. But the friend I've known the longest going back to our Navy days is white. He lives about an hour away but I visit him every few months.
Even when I was young, I never had a hangup about having friends of different races, ethnicities, background, etc. As long as we got along, that's all that mattered. It helped that my parents were never judgmental or negative towards other races as I was growing up.
Yet I do think most people tend to naturally segregate themselves by race throughout their lives as sort of a comfort zone. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but just an observation. Take high school for example, some schools the different races tend to hang out with each other at lunch and things of that sort.
I'm sure that if one looked at social pictures of forum members on here, majority would all feature people of the same race/ethnicity (weddings, parties, etc.).
I'll do better than that. I have a family that consists of people from different racial backgrounds.
Different races, religions, sexual orientations and socioeconomic backgrounds.
My closest friends from my home state area almost all white though, and it's weird because they are the most culturally "open" people I know and are (or were originally) located in one of the most diverse areas of the country. But given that my core group of friends in the hometown area includes my two best friends from high school and a group of people I met working at a bookstore, where most of the staff was white, I guess it's not surprising. Moreover, most of them live fairly close to each other.
Interestingly, almost all of those close friends in that core group have very close friendships with people from many different ethnicities, races and cultures (additionally two have lived around the world and traveled widely, another works on Africa-focused AIDS projects and yet another works on a Native American reservation in a cultural role). I would say that core group of friends is bound together by shared experiences, a shared sense of humor, shared values and proximity (though some of us have moved), but we have not limited our social interactions to just (or even primarily) each other.
It's a pretty monochromatic group that still has a very good grasp on the concept of diversity in their lives, I guess you could say.
Yes. I have one friend I met at the Boston Marathon, another at the New York City Marathon - and some other friends I met at other races...
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Several... family even. But I definitely don't try for it. I certainly don't assert moral authority because of it. I can't believe that any person would stack themselves up against others for that reason.
Yes. I have one friend I met at the Boston Marathon, another at the New York City Marathon - and some other friends I met at other races...
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Yes I do. Two of my most precious ones are black, another is Filipino. Some of my shorties are Hispanic and I love their families as well.
Race has nothing to do with who you are as a person and how you connect as people. It's all about love. That and my Filipino friend and one of my black friends are the most awesome cooks.
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