Are your friends just as international as your preference?

How many of you have friends in which, you can actually call friends that do not share the same complexion as you?

After living in the States for over 10 years, my circle of friends has changed. It resembles more to wards my comrads in England which, is not
so popular in the States.

I would imagine, this is one of many reasons why, I don't have any issues striking a conversation to the opposite sex that I find attractive in the States were others may feel hesitant under the given conditions.

Anyone agrees to my sentiments based on first hand experience?

For those who don't agree, please share your thoughts.

For those who have friends that resemble their complexion however, date primarily outside your complexion, what is stopping you from broadening your horizons even further?

 

I used to have a friend whose mother is black and from Brazil and her father white and from Italy.

Then I used to be friend with a girl whose mom is white and German and her dad(we he adopted her since her biological father died from cancer before she was born) mixed black and latin.
She grew up in the US since her dad is a US soldier.
If a few dumb things that none of us can be blamed for hadnt happened we would still be friends.

And I am still friends with a black guy who was stationed in the US Army base in my town before it closed down last year. We talk on Yahoo a lot.

 

My friends never follow any certain type, whether it be physically or personality wise. Something I've learned growing up: chances are if someone is weird we'll be friends. Doesn't matter what they look like. Most of my friends are guys, though. I just seem to get along better with men. Very few of my friends are white guys...though for some reason most of my chick friends are white. Not really sure why.

I'm just friendly. I talk to everyone. Serious. In the elevator at school, in the hall at school, in the smoking area, on the bus, at the bus stop (as long as they don't seem creepy), etc.

I guess to help illustrate: I have three best friends. One is a white guy who lives in West Virginia, who is my brother regardless of the fact that we aren't related. Another is hispanic, and used to live in Houston, but moved back to the valley (where ever that is. Somewhere in Southern Texas), and the last is my boyfriend, and he's black, obviously.

Thas jus' how I roll. I got plenty of friends who I couldn't tell you what ethnicity they are. I never asked, they never told, it's not so obvious by looking at them, so I don't see any reason to bother them about it. It's not gonna change how I see them as friends to find out that they're hispanic, or native american, or mixed, or whatever. They still the same to me.

 

I do have a few friends that are black and two of my best friends are chinese. I do recognize cultural differences and embrace these.

 

I have a few friends myself. I hope to see some of them when I travel to Europe.

 

I have a mixture of friends. Some white, some black, some younger, some older, some gay, some lesbian, and obviously some men and some women. I've always seemed to surround myself with "characters" of all kinds. I think it has something to do with allowing myself to open up to people who might be different than me. Plus I'm a pretty friendly person.

 

My friends are from all over the world and have all different complexions.

 

I have alot of aquaintances that are black, white, european, hispanic
gay and lesbians.

The closest of my friends are white and black. Due to my education and job experiences I don't allow many to get to close to me. But those choices are not based on race at all.

You will rarely see me interacting in a group of chicanos-but only because i dont understand spanish that well or dont speak it that much. I feel like a fuckin idiot just sittin there tryin to piece together what they are sayin.

When makin any sort of friendship between me and another is based on how they make me laugh, do i feel comfortable with them or will they have my back if i gotta get down and do some good ole ass whoopin.

I will admit the majority of my friends and aquaintances are male. I have very little female sidekicks and if i do those are more than likely lesbian.

 

Damn. I just thought about it and I don't have any white friends, I'm shocked too. I mean my crew is a bunch of guys who just hang out, party, go to the club or just watch the game whenever it's on. These are my inner circle of people and I dont hang out with anyone else.

I mean I've met people whom I'd worked with in the past and we became real cool, but I kinda lost touch with them. I guess I really need to get out more. My mother's best friend happens to be white and I've known her for so long that I really dont even see her as a white lady.

I would be open to having white friends if our paths crossed and we shared a common interest.

 

Most of my friends are european and white. But as they come from southern europe as well some have a darker skincolor than me (which is not dificult).


My students dont count, do they?

 

Thanks for the feedback everyone! 8)

Do you look at your pupils as students or, do you feel the kinship is far beyond that?

Would you find it difficult to take their advice if you stumble across an obstacle in which, they (All 30 classmates assuming) came to a unanimous decision on what would be the best thing to do?

 

I had to look up unanimous. ;-)

Some of them are more then students.
I know stuff about their private lives as well and they about mine.
I think people learn best when zthey have fun and feel well so its a lot of giggeling and I hope the athmosphere is as nice for them as for me.
I had to get angry only once, with a elderly men who was making sexist points again one of my female students.
I would not take his advice, as he thinks, women are there only to get babies.

Most of them are older then me and saw a lot more of the worls than me so I generally would not have a problem of taking their advices, as long as it seems clever to me.

Did I understand you correctly here?

 

Yes.

Thank you. 8)

 

I've got everything but white friends...well a few..but they aren't well represented compared to all of the other races, ethnic groups, nationalities etc.

 

Pleasure. ;-)

I always wonder how people can have only friends of their own heritage and their own sexual orientation. How does that happen? Do they stop chatting with nice people if they learn that someone is homosexual or muslim or that his/her parents arefrom another country?
A collegue at university asked me how do I have so many friends from other countries.
And I asked her, how do you have only german friends as we live in a city with more than 13% of migrants?

This is for larger towns. I know that small villages usually do not offer a great variety of nice people you could make friends with.

 

my new group of friends are korean and loas. i have a loas best friend i know for 8 years. i have white and hispanic frineds too. i dont really have many black friends becuase im from new york and they were kind of the gangster thug type that i cant connect with. i now live in atlanta ( 2 years) and its the same situation here.

 

isnt atlanta one of the most populated by the black race of cities?

 

yea but most of the black people i know are into the gangster way of life. it attracts negative attention. im not saying all black people are like that, im black myself, but i tend to connect with people i have more in common with, rather it be music, the way i dress, etc. lol , some black people would call me an oreo becuase i dont act black. i didnt know people can act like a color......