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Originally Posted by jorgelito
Idunno, the race/ethnicity issue is a bit more nuanced I think. It is definitely a slippery slope. There is a very fine line between preference and prejudice creeping towards outright racism, even if it's auto-racism.
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Not true. You can't sand bag individuals into "they are 'blank' because they are 'blank' race." People can be culturally different sure, but that is flexible. Race, from a phenotypical standpoint is not. I would bet that the three people in your example most likely have more in common than not.
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Watch a reality show, look at how the groups initially separate. You'll have to pay more attention to the minorities. When they don't know what they have in common, they will be attracted to who they identify with the most based on appearances alone. It's not until the people get paired off or spend time with different people do you see interracial or even intercultural friendships. I'm not saying Blank is Blank because they're or Blank race or at least I didn't mean to say that. I'm just saying, common interests and cultural identity play a big part when choosing how you approach different people. It doesn't have to be about race. I don't identify with "big city folk" because I've been born and raise pretty far outside of any city. There's a town of 12k people 20+ miles away, and nearest town with more than 100k people is more than 60 miles away and it's not even in my home state! If you placed me in a room with some big city metrosexual, or lawyer, or hell anyone wearing more than 1000$ worth of clothes and some redneck looking guy in his camo overalls, even though I don't share the interests of many people around here, I still identify with the redneck and be more likely to befriend him first.
Nothing is that simple though. I don't really choose my friends. They just come along and really there's not much conscious thought on my part what their color is skin is, what their religion is, etc etc.. Common interests like working together, going to the same gym, bar etc etc have a bigger affect than anyone's color or culture.