<p>Actually, I was responding to people who said it was unnatural to expect people from different communities to become good friends - as opposed to just casual acquaintances or whatever - during college. I was surprised by the assumption that those friendships don’t happen naturally in the wild, with one poster asking why diversity is a good thing. I think everyone should be friends with whoever they want to be friends with, and the reason I started this thread was because I didn’t want my relative to be in an environment where the automatic assumption is that it’s not “natural” to become friends with someone who is different from you - when in my entire life, the experience has been the opposite.</p>
<p>If you choose to assume that I believe everyone should collect a menagerie of diverse friends to parade around in a private zoo and show off to their neighbors, that’s your problem.</p>