International and domestic friends..

<p>I'm currently a freshman at UM and I moved into my dorms about a week ago. The thing is, almost all of my friends are fellow internationals and I don't really hang out or hit the fraternities with any domestic people. </p>

<p>Did any other internationals here make a lot of friends with domestics once classes started (and partied/chilled with them) or vice versa?</p>

<p>no, internationals(chinese, korean etc) often stick to their own group and speak their own native languages. Very few actually take the initiative to make domestic friends.</p>

<p>I’m a westernized one without an accent and with English as a first language. If a domestic were to talk to me, he would think that I’m an American-Asian, up until the point when he asks where I’m from.</p>

<p>Yeah, my roommate is international but doesn’t have a heavy accent or anything. We’re good friends and he has a group of friends that are also asian, but not international.</p>

<p>Some international groups are super cliquey though. For example, the only reason I got to play pick up soccer with this group of Koreans was because my roommate is Korean and he got our foot in the door.</p>

<p>Hi !</p>

<p>I am an international too, from Morocco, and I have to say it is hard to make friends when all american students already know each other or just do not takethe time to knowinternationals ! Moreover I am in a single room an I have no group to stick to since I am from a underrepresented minority ! I just dont know what to do :smiley: Its getting kind of boring there !</p>