Do you have any close friends from another race?

Question

Just wondering if you had friends from different races or do you stick with your own? If you do are they close friends , i.e know your parents, slept in same room, etc. If not do you stay away from other races out of fear, mistrust, etc. (Interested to hear from Americans as I heard its very segregated)

I should add I don't mean work friends or someone you see in your local shop. I mean the sort of friend you would leave your children with or you would call in times of real trouble.

Answer 1

♥ yeah, i do. i've never thought race mattered, ~n~ that's why i'm friends with lots of ppl from different races. it always bothered me that ppl r so racist, but i was never like that. ~n~ yeah, all of them r close friends 2 me. ♥

Answer 2

I am pleased to say that yes I do have friends from different races, I am a white english lady and have several dark skinned friends. In fact I find dark skinned friends so much more genuine and a whole lot less bitchy. In conversation they tend ***** less about their families, neighbours and colleagues etc. Of course I have met some dark skinned people who have not worked as hard as the rest of the staff and I have met white skinned who have been just as reluctant to pull their weight. On the whole in my experience working for dark skinned Ipeople I have been treated much better and with dignity than I have from fellow whites. However, I do feel that as a white person I am at a disadvantage because for example if a shop was about to close they would do if I wanted to enter, if however dark person wanted to go in they would have to allow it for being accused of being racist. This is where I think the idea of being treated different due to colour works against us whites.

Answer 3

My mother is Caucasian and my father is Black American. My first husband is Puerto Rican. I have a lot of Puerto Rican friends as well as Italian and Asian. I must admit tho when I lived in New York I had a lot more friends from other cultural backgrounds. Now I live in the South where it tool me a long time to find people that I was cool with. That is the basis of my friendships not race.

Answer 4

Race is a definition I won't get into here, but to put it bluntly, I'm basically an American Black man. I have friends that are of every nationality you could imagine, from West African to South American to South Pacific Islanders. I have dated women from all walks of life and from most of the countries I have visited in the last thirty years. The people I associate with are Internationals and take little heed of your skin color, but certainly try not to surround themselves with azzholes of any race, creed or color.
America, like most countries on Earth base their ideals on the dominant paradigm, which is in this case: Ethnic Europeans. This however does not prevent those of us who are not representative of that group from enjoying our lives, nor of spending time with people of other colors and religious backgrounds. it's simply something that we are and are made aware of by the less open-minded and limited people of the world. Get out there and live; you'll find that you have little time to worry about what the morons of the world are busy thinking or doing...

Answer 5

As an American, I think that some Americans are very segregated in smaller towns and communities, but not as bad in the cities, though it still is prevalent. When I think of it, I now live in London and I'm having my birthday party next week and I have the following people coming:

-Two Americans
-Half Turkish/Half Italian raised in Turkey
-Half Lebanese/Half Brazil raised in Brazil
-Australian, white
-Mexican
-Brazilian
-Irish
-Half Irish/Half Pakistani raised in Tanzania
-Four english people
-Colombian
-Chinese/British
-Nigerian
-Belgian

Well travelled Americans are way cool man as we're raised in such an outgoing environment that when we travel abroad we hang out with everyone. In the UK, some English people can be very segregated as well. When I attend parties of my English friends, I'm generally the only non-white there, who isn't English.

Answer 6

I have close friends from other races, and, incidentally, race should not be a deciding factor in who your friends are.
To me, everybody is equal, I just wish the rest of the world (or Bush) would see it that way as well.

Answer 7

Throughout my life I've always purposely mixed with people from other races as I am facinated how other cultures live, eat, dress etc. If I could take the trip of a lifetime I'd love to go to Japan.

Answer 8

Well im an american and one of my best friends is spanish. But if your talking bout more of the white black thing, um i do have a friend that is white. At first my parents made me talk to her and i really didnt want to cuz she seemed weird but after a while we became friends. And it rele aint dat segregated so ya heard wrong buddy boy.

Answer 9

You are joking right? Everyone has close friends from other races, surely? My girlfriend is Japanese and I have a few Japanese and Nigerian friends that I hang around with. I've never met a person who doesn't have friends from other races.

Answer 10

I'm not American , but yeah i have friends from different races and i treat them the same as my friends which are the same race as me, they are all my friends and i love them to bits

Answer 11

I am always for interracial relationships, its the best kind. Why someone stay with their race? i mean i dont even like my race. My good friends are white and im not. its what connects you together and what brought you together. It shouldnt matter what race you or they are because we are all human beings innit.