<p>Do people of the same ethnicity/race usually hang out together? Is there a kind of mentality or pressure?</p>
<p>Or does everyone interact about the same?</p>
<p>The only people who “hang out” together are people who ask questions as stupid as yours.</p>
<p>Why is that a stupid question?</p>
<p>It’s not stupid, it’s just been answered a lot of times. Do a search</p>
<p>And 2kids, your sense of humor is impeccable.</p>
<p>It’s an ignorant question, not a stupid one. At the same time though, it’s more true for certain groups than others.</p>
<p>I can’t remember a thread about this in my history of this board so I’ll explain a little (if someone wants to find a thread about it tho, I’d like to see it posted).</p>
<p>The most important thing to remember is that a clique in high school is not the same as a clique in college. There are definitely people whose groups of friends mostly consist of people of their same nationality (or pan-nationality as in Africans and Latin Americans). Most internationals (and some 1st gens) will stick to their own people, assuming there is a large enough cast of them…Koreans and Chinese are the two examples that come to mind. As mentioned the same goes for a bunch of the African and Latin American students I know as well though, as mentioned, they tend to care less about nationality than whether or not you share the same language, common values, etc. However, not all of the people just mentioned will do that. </p>
<p>That being said, I highly doubt there is anyone at Columbia that ONLY hangs out with their own groups. Everyone at Columbia is intelligent and it tends to be extremely easy to meet people outside your own nationality/ethnicity that you will like and hang out with. </p>
<p>Like I said, it does happen, but it’s not that important. I’m sure someone would argue this but this is how I would rank the groups one belongs to as far as importance in making friends:
- People you live(d) with (especially freshman year)
- People in your extracurriculars/random classes
- People in your major
- People who share your ethnicity/nationality.</p>
<p>For anyone wondering, I put ec’s/classes before major since you tend to meet people in your major jr year and after.</p>
<p>2kidsincollege, my question may be stupid, but id rather ask it and hear people answer rather than just wonder about it. Or maybe it was phrased badly, because it’s actually something I think about. </p>
<p>I ask because I wish I had friends from a wider span of ethnicities, and so I’m hoping to do so in college. I have my personal reasons for why I want to do this, no need to shoot them down.</p>
<p>But thanks, Skraylor, I appreciate your answer.</p>
<p>I think Skraylor hit it on the head pretty well. I’ll reinforce what he said about 1st gen internationals (especially asians) tending to stick together. Also, for what it is worth, I have a good amount of jewish acquaintances that tend to stick together for housing, but thats about it. Other than that, the only real cliques i personally know of are the hispanic kids from nyc, they hang out with each other quite alot. No single member of those groups hangs out with just people in their “clique”, though, and there is certainly no pressure to. My personal group of friends could pass for a fricken Unicef commercial it’s so diverse.</p>