Why do people of Asian community tend to socialize only within themselves more than other people?

Question

I don't mean to discriminate or criticize, it's just my observation from most Asian people that I met.

Answer 1

Well I read some of the earlier messages and a lot of these people are saying that most of the Asians you're referring to have recently migrated here. But I'm 22 and I have a few Asian friends who were born here and can speak English just as well as I can.
I think that a lot of Asians might socialize amongst themselves but this is true with mostly everyone. Where I am from, most of the neighborhoods are pretty much segregated with the exception of a few.

So if the neighborhoods you grew up in, and your schools, as well as the friends your parents have are all the same race, that's pretty much who you're going to be most comfortable hanging out with. My first exposure with meeting lots of people outside of my race and having the opportunity to make friends with them wasn't until I got to highschool and was already a teen. So of course you have preconceived notions of how other people might not understand you, and how you'll be able to relate more to people who look like you. And that's what everyone mainly did, whites stuck with whites, blacks with blacks, Asians with Asians.

It's just being afraid to take a leap but after you hang out you realize you have a lot more in common with everyone than what you'd expect, but I think your question totally points the finger at Asians like they are the only people who stick together. I've been at plenty of places where all the white people and black people and latin people, and black people are only mingling with themselves and aren't trying to include anyone else.

Answer 2

Western culture and the east are very different in a dramatic scale. People from another country~ asian immigrants, especially the first generation can't be naturalized with the rest as easily. Their language is too different, people of the west, like hispanic culture, european descends all have the same alphabetes in their language, while people from the asian descends has there own characters, and dramatically different expression. Some words and expressions are just not as easily translated to English, which made some asian felt uncomfortable in these areas.
Think about people in Iraq, can their culture be easily changed? Thousands of years of civilizations, just because the U.S wanted to invade them, bring them up to American standards? It's just simply not gonna happen over night

Answer 3

You are right and it is based on culture. I lived in Korea for a year and found that the same holds true for the states as there. They tend to mingle in their own groups, which is no different than what we do here. I mean African American and Latinos do the same thing. It isn't just Asian but it is about being in your comfort zone. They speak the same language and many of them have broken English and feel embarrassed that they can't understand or speak in the same manner that we do so to "save face" they just stay within their groups. It is really no different than what we do.

Answer 4

Consider who would be easiest to spen time with if you were in a foreign country. If there was an American community, you already speak the language without the effort of thinking about the right word, how to apply a foreign grammar - it just flows caus' you spoke since you were a baby.


Who would you relate to the easiest? You were brought up in the same culture, roughly the same way. The same Western values. The same religious influence. You celebrated the same hollidays since you were small.

It's not all about prejudice. It just comes more natural.

Answer 5

I'm sure a lot of it has to do with language barriers and customs. A lot of Asians just can't engage someone who isn't Asian in a conversation because their English is very limited. My soon to be mother-n-law is Vietnamese and sometimes I find it very hard to understand what she's saying.

Also, a lot of Asians have just moved recently to the U.S. so they stick with their own to feel a sense of belonging and to support eachother.

Answer 6

I dunno. Maybe a language and culture similarity. People always feel more comfortable around people their own age, gender, race, etc. Well, not "always"...but generally - I am a whitie Jew and my best friend is Japanese, so there are always exceptions.

Oh, and get this - my Japanese best friend has almost all Jewish friends. What's that all about?

Answer 7

Meh. Sub-Conscience natural works probably.

Answer 8

Because when you get right down to it, they think they're more pure and better than everyone else.

Answer 9

I have no idear. because us whites never ever do anything like that.