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Originally Posted by cybermike
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.
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Sure, I see where you are coming from. I also agree with your common interests point. But those seem more like cultural types of commonality vs. "race", but you have clarified your point. TFP is a great example of this. I find myself "friends" with many widely diverse peoples on this board despite political differences etc. But since we can't "see" each other, we don't discriminate on race.
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