Getting along with people from different ethnic groups

Do you generally find it easier to get along / develop friendships with certain ethnic groups (excluding your own) over others? Or do you consider yourself an all-rounder who has the ability to build rapport and forge strong friendships regardless of ethnic background?

I will admit that I generally find it much easier to get along with some ethnic groups over others. I definitely notice a disconnect with people from the ethnic groups that I find difficult to get along with.

What about you? Share your experiences.

Do you generally find it easier to get along / develop friendships with certain ethnic groups (excluding your own) over others? Or do you consider yourself an all-rounder who has the ability to build rapport and forge strong friendships regardless of ethnic background?

I will admit that I generally find it much easier to get along with some ethnic groups over others. I definitely notice a disconnect with people from the ethnic groups that I find difficult to get along with.

What about you? Share your experiences.

Don't you think that culture is more likely to be tied to ethnicity these days? I think the scenario you describe (people opting to stay in their cultural zone instead of absorbing Western cultural artifacts) is far more common in 2016 than ever before.

For example, when was the last time you met a similarly-aged Chinese or Pakistani person that kept up with English pop culture to the point where you could fondly reminisce over old British TV programmes or music? I know that I haven't.

I remember when I used to go around the houses of my Chinese friends, the TV would only be running Chinese language films and soap operas. I introduced one of them to the UK radio station, Kiss 100. He had not heard of it despite living in London for 17 years - he had spent his whole life listening to Cantonese and Taiwanese music - by choice. And this was in the early 2000s.

I think the cultural disconnect is more pronounced these days because it's much easier for someone to stay within their cultural domain than it was 40 years ago. These days, they don't have to watch British TV, listen to Western music or even learn English. They can be like that and still function reasonably well in society. Socialising isn't even hampered because they can just gravitate to their local established ethnic community.This is what I'm seeing in my borough - people generally stick with their own - by choice.

I think attempting to get along is made much harder when a person chooses to not absorb anything from Western pop culture - there's just nothing to talk about - fewer grounds of commonality to build upon.
I think a good sign that a person is well integrated in British society is when you can talk about old TV programmes or songs that used to come on the radio. It shows that they've made an effort to step outside of own culture and absorb things that were popular in mainstream Western culture.

Do you live in a major city?

Oh right, maybe it's just a London thing then. I think places with smaller populations do a better job of encouraging tight knit communities to form regardless of ethnic differences.

Do you generally find it easier to get along / develop friendships with certain ethnic groups (excluding your own) over others? Or do you consider yourself an all-rounder who has the ability to build rapport and forge strong friendships regardless of ethnic background?

I will admit that I generally find it much easier to get along with some ethnic groups over others. I definitely notice a disconnect with people from the ethnic groups that I find difficult to get along with.

What about you? Share your experiences.

Young negroes are usually very flippant. Always tossing out the usual throwaway buzzwords/cultural memes of the hour without any real independent analysis.

This is presumptuous BS... You need to get out more and possibly get more black friends.

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