<p>Lol, no. It's wasn't inspired by anything.</p>
<p>I live in the most Asian city in California. Seriously, I don't have many opportunities to meet people outside of my race. I think it's rather unfortunate as well.</p>
<p>Interesting observations though. Thanks. : )</p>
<p>^ Just curious, where do you live?</p>
<p>I, too, live in a very Asian-filled city in CA. :)</p>
<p>Do you live in San Jose? I live in Irvine. \m/</p>
<p>Lol. Monterey Park. : )</p>
<p>Ooo yeah. That's what I was thinking of.</p>
<p>Lol, my city's one-third Asian, but yours is twice that. Must have a lot of 99 Ranch Stores. =0</p>
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<p>I personally like being a minority. But then again, I'm part of the largest minority, being Mexican. I've never found it difficult to befriend or be part of anything "white", because I live in a mostly white community. Even then, nobody cares. Same with where I'm going to go to school. </p>
<p>Usually race isn't an issue. Ever. That is, unless I'm filling out employment applications. xD</p>
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<p>every race does this. white, black, latino. it's natural for ANYONE to bond with people that are in common. focus on the big picture.</p>
<p>I'm indian and only like two of my friends are indian. Though, it might be because there are only like 4 indians in my entire grade and everyone else is black or white. I'm probably the least-indian person you will ever meet.</p>
<p>To Poster Jenu whatever you name is
I would assume you live in Cupertino or Fremont?
Hmm I am asian, but I don't really like hanging out with asain. I think I have more trouble making asian friends than American friends.
I hang out with mostly black kids, tongans and some white kids from my area. Few mexicans (mixed). I have like 1 good asain friend that helps me with my Homework ahahah.
It really depends whom you want yourself to be identified with.
Don't force yourself to befriend with someone you know that you won't hang out with or whatever.</p>
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<p>Sweet, I never said that they didn't. But the OP is Asian and I was stating how the Asian minorities are at my school. And actually the asians do it more at my school than the arabs, indians, etc. Now run along...</p>
<p>OP I share your concern. I got in to my top school(Loyola) which is 86% caucasian and i'm a AA. The school is only 5% AA so I dont know how well I would fit in and no i'm not a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>^ @peter_parker</p>
<p>Anyway, if you're an asian women a lot of white guys will be all over you anyway, so I don't think you'll have problems making friends from all sorts of groups.</p>
<p>you are so right...I wish I'm a Asian girl</p>
<p>@Polihist</p>
<p>As a AA like you or an Asian like me, we should really rethink the idea of attending Loyola(College in MD).</p>
<p>People go to those schools just to avoid diversity.</p>
<p>"@ LW Trojan; Yawn's right. I go to a predominately Asian high school, so you'd figure I live in a predominately Asian city."</p>
<p>"^^^^Not necessarily. Take for example a historically black college. While the university may be composed of mostly African Americans, the demographics of the surrounding community may not necessarily be the same. I can't assume anything beyond what you have posted. That said, this can't be a serious question unless you've never stepped foot outside of your community..."</p>
<p>LW Trojan, you are comparing high school, which if public, generally pulls from the local community, to an HBCU, which pulls from hundreds to thousands of miles. Folks in California could easily find themselves not experiencing life as a minority if they are Asian or Latino.</p>
<p>"To answer your original question, I don't think being a minority is any different from being part of the majority. "</p>
<p>I'm cuious about your perspective here. Is this your personal experience?</p>
<p>30 years ago there was a difference in high schools and, to a lesser extent, colleges, at least in the Northeast. It wasn't that long ago that we had busing in Boston and the riots that went with it.</p>
<p>There are other aspects of being a minority too. I visited China in the 1980s and our group went to villages that had never seen white or black people before. I looked asian but didn't speak the language - the locals couldn't believe that and tested me there. Race isn't the only way that you can feel as part of the minority.</p>
<p>@BCEagle91</p>
<p>Haha you should go visit China now...</p>
<p>I was the opposite of your situation. In my case the high school I went to had about 5% Asians, and now the college I'm going to has 50% Asians. It wasn't that strange for me. But in your case where you're going from high school to college, you will feel the effects. Being the only Asian and such, but it's not entirely bad cause I enjoyed being the "only" Asian on my high school volleyball team, and other activities, it put more attention on you and a lot of people would know who you are. Sometimes I crave that attention, cause in a college with majority/half asians you just tend to blend in with all the others, and ey.. in my opinion that is no fun at all.</p>
<p>I really have no idea what the problem is.
Who cares if you're a minority or a majority?
Maybe it's the fact that I go to a very diverse high school, but I think worrying about this is ridiculous.
In my experience there's no difference at all.</p>
<p>^ginab591 "Maybe it's the fact that I go to a very diverse high school, but I think worrying about this is ridiculous.
In my experience there's no difference at all."</p>
<p>I wonder if you could share your experience? I hope you don't mind, but i took the liberty of looking at some of your old posts. I think your perspective might be limited by the amazing experience of growing up in a New York suburb. ( As did I: Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens). Maybe I am just old and out of touch, but it might also be true that you have little experience with what's it's like to be a minority in other parts of the country, and other settings. Also, if you don't mind my asking, I noticed you are Hispanic, but in New York, that's kind of like being "Asian" in California. Where are you/your parents from? I think that makes a difference too, for example Spain vs Puerto Rico or elsewhere in the Caribbean or South America. I don't think it's a PROBLEM per se, but it IS worth going into with your eyes open.</p>
<p>PS My daughter got her silver award too, but not a gold. Good luck with that!</p>
<p>Well I didn't go into it because my situation is very unique.
My mother's parents are from Ecuador and she was raised in a very hispanic household. My father is a European mutt, but mostly Italian.
I'm in the suburbs suburbs, like out of the five buroughs. I was born in Queens, but now live in Rockland county.
My school district has two towns in it. One that is about 2/3's black or hispanic. Then, the other town, the town I live in is almost 100% white. So I've been both the majority and the minority. Interestingly though, most of my friends are the 1/3 of the other town that's white. If people don't know my mother or brother, they will usually assume I'm Italian because of my name.
Also, on being a minority in other parts of the country, my biggest experience was a CTY summer camp for Johns Hopkins where the white were definitely a minority and I may have been the lone kid with Hispanic blood. There the Asians were the majority. I felt it more there, but it was mostly because I was raised so differently than the rest of them. Many of them went to private school and had a lot of money and nannies and things growing up. (Which was unusual for me because I'm used to being more well of than my friends)
So I think class differences affect people more than racial ones. </p>
<p>And thanks, it's actually very close to finished.</p>
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<p>So I think class differences affect people more than racial ones. </p>
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<p>It's funny that the class differences are getting to be more noticeable than the racial differences. Clothes, hair, cars, phones and laptops.</p>