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How common is REAL racial integration?

Do you have friends of other races

  • I tend to only befriend people the same race as I, on a subconcious level

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I tend to befriend people of my on race on an unsubconcious level

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I have friends of all races that I regulary hang out with

    Votes: 8 88.9%
  • I have no desire to have friendships with other races

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't set out not to have friends of other races, but the cards tend to fall that way

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Total voters
    9
The question didn't ask us about society, which is how you interpreted it. It asked us a question about ourselves. The wording was very clear. Reading comprehension is your friend.
 
The poll asked readers about their individual behavior, and yet you chose to interpret it as being about society at large for reasons I can't fathom. Now you're trying to backpedal by arguing about the nature of polls in general.

Good luck with that.

I take it you don't have friends in the 'other' category, and that's why you are defensive/accusatory? If you only have [insert race friends] it's nothing to be ashamed about. As you see the poll doesn't even ellude to racism if you don't. Nobody is judging anyone if they only have friends of their kind', so what's your beef?
Stop making this poll deeper than it is.
 
Race is a complete non-issue to me, I pay no attention to it whatsoever. I make friends based on personality and interests, not on skin color, gender or sexual preference, etc. It just doesn't matter.
 
I see that you've given up. Every poll is directed at a society. Every poll takes a premise which is provided by an individual and makes a conclusion about a society on the basis of individual responses.

Take a logic class and then get back to me.
 
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I take it you don't have friends in the 'other' category, and that's why you are defensive/accusatory?

I take it you missed my initial response. In any case, my tone is due to the fact that the entire premise of this thread invites the invocation of a fallacy which, when employed during other discussions, would get the poster laughed out of the thread.
 
It fits perfectly. You ask us if we're integrated, the evidence of our integration being our friendships and other social bonds with people different from us. You're asking us if we have any (fill in the blank) friends. That's asking us if we can make the Friend Argument -- "I'm integrated because I have (fill in the blank) friends."

Okkay...so how do you feel about friends with benefits?
 
What I think is you're gleefully derailing your own thread.

It's either that or

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I have many friends that I consider to be good friends that are from another race as me. I probably have more Egyptian and Middle Eastern friends than I do friends from other races/cultures. I enjoy spending time with them, and their race had no impact on me choosing to befriend them or to not befriend them.
 
I just hang out with cool people, if your not a douche, I'll hang out with you. Race does not factor in the equation.
 
I have many friends that I consider to be good friends that are from another race as me. I probably have more Egyptian and Middle Eastern friends than I do friends from other races/cultures. I enjoy spending time with them, and their race had no impact on me choosing to befriend them or to not befriend them.

One of the best part is the food gatherings. However I do have a Polish friend who cooks some nasty Polish dishes LOL.
 
I'm talking about a voluntary integration if you will. What I mean by that is; do you voluntarily hang around people who have a different skin complexion than you?

It seems everytime a story hits surrounding scandal, murder, theft, etc, and there are 2 or more races involved it ALWAYS turns into a race issue, and the real issue up for debate gets forgotten. I grew up on military bases around the world. I had hispanic friends, white firends, black friends, korean friends and the list goes on. If I ever felt uncomfortable around anyone it was due to their PERSONALITY not their race. I attend a multicultural church and my husband and I are different races. What I want to know is how common voluntary integration is? Maybe I just grew up fortunate.


I have lots of casual friends or work buddies of widely varying races and whatnot.... black, white, hispanic, lesbian, Brit, agnostic, heck even a couple Democrats. :)

I have a very small circle of CLOSE friends... most are caucasian, other than one half-hispanic chick. I don't know why but it just worked out that way.

I don't have any Asian friends. Most Asians around here hang out together and don't speak very good english, though a fair number are 2nd and 3rd generation American citizens; I don't know how it ended up that way. I tend not to buddy around with someone I can't even have a conversation with because of the language barrier. They're mostly Laotian, Hmong and Viet (decendants of political refugees I think), along with a some Koreans, a few Chinese and a thin scatter of Japanese. Actually most of the Japanese speak perfect English, but there aren't many of them around and they're mostly educators or executives.
 
The question didn't ask us about society, which is how you interpreted it. It asked us a question about ourselves. The wording was very clear. Reading comprehension is your friend.

You talk about reading comprehension, yet you fail to comprehend that this thread has TWO questions. The first question is what this thread is about "How common is real racial integration?" The second question is "Do you have friends of other races?"

The main question has to be about a society: it is asking about commonness, about how frequently some trait shows up in a group. The second question is meant to supply the information for answering the main question. Narrow reading comprehension is not your friend.
 
if we have stuff in common, we are going to hang out.

regardless of race, religion, and nationality.

I have Jewish, Christian, & Muslim friends.

I have white, Asian, Hispanic, and black friends.

though, I am of the post-Civil Rights era generation.
 
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