<p>"So I think class differences affect people more than racial ones." </p>
<p>I agree with that, for the most part, at least in California. Seemed less true when I lived in New York and DC.</p>
<p>"If people don't know my mother or brother, they will usually assume I'm Italian because of my name."</p>
<p>Last question: Does that mean you look "white"? Do you think that makes a difference?</p>
<p>I don't know whether or not it does. The only time it did was when a girl with a grudge against me tried to get me in trouble for calling her a racial slur only to find out when my mother came in that we are both Hispanic. If anything reverse racism exists in my school.</p>
<p>@Smalllab</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>You got in as well?</p>
<p>^ </p>
<p>yes got in as EA</p>
<p>Ah, congrats. It seems like a really good school, but im afraid I wont fit in. Someone sent me a message describing it as a "country club". Plus its really expensive.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>haha country club...</p>
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usually the asians just form little packs and isolate themselves.
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<p>Those tend to be FOBs and they tend to further segregate themselves via their particular ethnicity.</p>
<p>Asian-Ams who were born/raised here (outside of an ethnic enclave) tend to associate w/ "everybody" (well, make that primarily w/ whites).</p>
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It's a shame that you have barely had any contact with anyone who's not asian - especially in the United States. It just seems like you're missing out.
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<p>Can say the same thing about many white or black Americans who have never had close contact outside their race.</p>
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Actually, I've been thinking it over, and it's actually the complete opposite. Every asian I know is utterly surrounded with white people; hardly any other asian friends or best friends. The vast majority (with one or two exceptions) are dating white people (or hispanic) as well. I don't know what schools these asian pods form. Black people are a different story, but a great deal of them at my smaller school are athletes - so that's definitely a factor.
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<p>That's b/c they are "twinkies", "bananas", "whitewashed" Asians, etc. - and are found primarily at private universities/colleges.</p>
<p>And yes, many don't want/like to associate w/ other Asians due to identity/self-esteem issues.</p>
<p>The Asian "packs" (largely broken along ethnic lines) are more likely to be found at state universities and community colleges (the exception would be foreign Asian students attending private colleges</p>
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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
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<p>Make that WMs who tend to be on the "geeky" side.</p>
<p>To answer OPs question, it really depends where you go (and even them you will find some people more accepting than others).</p>
<p>I find it funny, tho, how people comment on Asians or blacks "sticking together" when whites do exactly the same thing.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can find groups/cliques where there is the token Asian or black friend - but usually, that person is pretty much "whitewashed" and it involves the non-white person having to "cross-over".</p>
<p>More rare is finding the token "white friend" in a group of non-whites.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>to make it short</p>
<p>American born Asians are white</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>^ Which makes the outcry over the no. of Asians at top privates being funny, since those Asians are culturally no different from whites and hence, w/ regard to "diversity", it doesn't matter whether the person is racially white or Asian.</p>
<p>One can argue that the UC schools, for instance, are much more "diverse", despite having a greater % of Asian students since many of the students tend to be recent immigrants (growing up in ethnic enclaves) and hence actually bring a cultural diversity.</p>
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That's b/c they are "twinkies", "bananas", "whitewashed" Asians, etc. - and are found primarily at private universities/colleges
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Ugh I just hate that mentality. I'm south asian (that's brown, not yellow) and I hate it when fellow asians call other asians stupid names like that or say that they're "whitewashed". Guess what, we're a teensy minority in this country, and yet so many of us form our little asian packs and refuse to associate with anyone else, and then those same people look down on the others who don't watch bollywood movies or have hello kitty pencilcases and make fun of them by calling them "whitewashed". I just don't get it. and btw, I go to private college, and it's the same here. Calling people who choose to <em>gasp</em> talk to others outside their race twinkies and bananas and the like is just dumb.</p>
<p>I’m black so my minority experience is probably different. The biggest thing about being a minority (especially a minority of the “unsavory” races) is that ppl often treat you in as if you have to fit into a box.</p>
<p>Also dating can be an issue as well, I usually am attracted to white girls, but since I am black I contemplate if they will reject me on that basis alone.</p>
<p>I went to high school were the Mexican population was <5%</p>
<p>I was like very minority</p>
<p>It didn’t bug me though, I managed to be around with the other kids of all ethnicities</p>
<p>I’m Korean and I don’t mingle with fellow asians all the time. It bothers me when people say that asians are particularly “cliquey” because ALL races do that. white ppl stick with white ppl, black with black, etc.</p>
<p>“Also dating can be an issue as well, I usually am attracted to white girls, but since I am black I contemplate if they will reject me on that basis alone.”</p>
<p>I guess im not the only one >_></p>
<p>I’m hispanic and have been able to date girls of other ethnicities.</p>
<p>INTERRACIAL BABIES!</p>
<p>I can’t speak for all minorities, but being an Asian girl is lots of fun…everyone thinks we’re small and innocent and nice. Actually that’s a pretty accurate stereotype. Sure, there are the cutthroat pre-med Asian girls, but they’re rare. No one ever suspects me of doing anything wrong - it helped me get away with some stuff in high school :D</p>
<p>that is surely a great asset to have.</p>
<p>As A Mexican Immigrant in high school everyone thought I was like either gangsta or didn’t know English and since I had an accent it was pretty easy to mock me.</p>
<p>I’m a white engineer at a very Asian school, and it’s really not a big deal. A lot of other minority groups that I’ve seen here tend to stick together, though.</p>
<p>Im almost on the same page as Dbate. Im a black girl at an private school that costs $18,000 a year to get into. Dating can be a huge issue b/c im attracted to white guys but it is rare u will find a white guy to want to date a black girl.
Its also funny that people try to be inclusive to us few black kids at school when all they do is make us feel even more different and end up pushing us away.</p>
<p>If race isn’t that big of an issue, then why do we address it so frequently?</p>
<p>Culture is a big issue as is race. I dated several white women in college, two of them were looking for husbands (I didn’t read the cues as I was clueless about such things at that age). I grew up in a white community and, outside of some relatively mild racial harassment, was part of the white culture.</p>