<p>"I was like nuh-uh, I wanna be your friend and yeah."</p>
<p>Haha. That's hilarious. I also notice the same thing. Perhaps they feel some sense of superiority?</p>
<p>"Davidson Weak"
You couldn't think of something better like "**** Davidson"?</p>
<p>Us on the first floor are embarrassed : P</p>
<p>I honestly don't know if they feel it's superiority or maybe because they usually come from strict families where school comes first and their parents actually want and encourage them to have Asian friends.</p>
<p>But just a message to all you Asians with all-Asian friends.. We want to be your friends too! Lighten up. =]</p>
<p>Sometimes it's just easier to make friends with people of the same background as you...although it is kind of ironic that the "racism" situation at Berkeley is reversed.</p>
<p>Maybe racism is super subjective; usually whoever is the "minority" can be considered as discriminated against if the majority and the minority don't mix well.</p>
<p>Minority majority!</p>
<p>"You couldn't think of something better like '**** Davidson'?"</p>
<p>Jairo wouldn't let us put **** Stanfurd so I doubt he'd let us do that :p</p>
<p>Strykur, you should socialize more. I have seen Asians that have a bias against people, but that applies to people they don't know. Once they know you, it's all good man.</p>
<p>Like knock on their doors and ask if they want to head out to the DC and grab a bite, or hang out at the Southside. Once school rolls in more, it will sound awkward. So if you are going to do it, do it now man.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Just to break down some barriers here, each group of Asian from various regions in Asia are brought up with different influences. Some of these influences amount to extremely rigid and complicated rules of formality and social procedures, IE the Japanese. </p>
<p>A similarity i've noticed in the social dynamic of many Asian groups is the avoidance of confrontation, and the constant push towards modesty. Can you imagine solving a problem without talking directly about it? Yeah...that's how it's been for ages. It's because of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. </p>
<p>Now you might wonder why second generation Asians have anything to do with the "old" traditional asians. Truth is, many of them are subtly influenced by it. Ever wonder why many Chinese have Piano or Violin listed as an EC? Confucian's book of Music stressed the important of music as a means of intellectual advancement.</p>
<p>I could further clump these similarities together and say that in general, Asian social dynamic highly differs from European ethnicities (IE those influenced by Socrates, Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, etc.). *These differences result in different social beliefs, which result in different mannerisms, which is why we see Asians clumping together (ethnic enclaves). *</p>
<p>Even Asian groups have difficulty with other Asian groups. I'm Chinese and I find it hard at time to hang out with Japanese individuals for fear of doing something rude. Asian-Americans might seem assimilated...but unless they're 3rd+ generation Asians, I'd bet that they're still heavily influenced by their culture of origin.</p>
<p>Berkeley doesn't seem to do much to alleviate the group mentality, seeing as the Cal overnight stays involve clumping together the same racial group.</p>
<p>Do you guys notice that Cal seems to group people of the same ethnicity together as roommates?</p>
<p>yeah that's true.On my floor there are just 2 triples that have mixed population. I am in one of them.</p>
<p>No, it's mixed on my floor. I am white with an asian room mate.</p>
<p>I notice that they seem to group whites with whites more often than what would happen if they did it completely randomly, especially with male roommates. They also tend to group blacks with blacks more often than what would occur randomly.</p>
<p>I was kind of bummed when I heard ABA is the largest and most un-diverse organization - is this true?</p>