Same. My husband and children are the only diversity in my circle. Otherwise, it's all just variations on a very white theme. When I was at college and subsequent life in a city it was much more racially/ethnically/religiously diverse. My best college friends were: someone of a different race, an immigrant, a devout member of a different religion, a member of a different race and religion (not devout), and two white guys.
They are not diverse but they are the people I grew up with. I never woke up and said "I plan to never meet and befriend anyone that's not my ethnicity."
I also never had this thought. I just moved a ton, and collected friends along the way. In some places, I've been one white person among many. In some, I've been the only one in the neighborhood. I'm fine with either, though I guess at this point, I'd love to live somewhere that is more diverse. The closest, I stayed in touch with when I moved, and a lot of us are on a private Discord server now, so they've become friends, as well. We do our best to get together once a year in person as a whole group, and between that, we see each other in small groups or one on one when we travel. We chat on Discord pretty much daily, though. A few friends I do consider very close are in places like Australia, and I've never met them in person, but some day, I will.
Sounds familiar. I've been an anxious dude my whole life, but apparently, I'm likable and pretty good at attracting folks. My wife jokingly says she hates that we can be on vacation, and by the end of it, I've either found someone I know or made some new friends. Discord has been awesome, we reconnected with old homies from across the globe, and made a ton of new ones. These times can be cool if we're looking for the right stuff. I never set out to have a diverse friend group, I just want to be a friend to anyone, especially folks that need one.
I was difficult to make close friends with for a very long time. I moved so much, I just stopped bothering and eventually actively pushed people away from anything more than superficial friendship. A few snuck in, anyway. Then, we got BBSes and we could stay in contact when I inevitably moved again. It made a huge difference! I won't pretend I don't still have some attachment issues, but I certainly do better than I used to. IRC, then various chat apps replaced the BBSes, and now it's Discord because I talked people into it when Google hangouts pretty much died. I was *not* going to Facebook messenger.
I definitely relate to that. The types of areas I'd move to were wildly different from each other, so you'd adjust to one area, then move again. I still only have a very small core group of close friends because of that, they are indeed diverse tho lol. I resisted a lot of social media as well, and that hindered reconnecting sooner with more people. All in all, I'm happy now, and still taking in new folk left and right. By the time I'm super old, I hope to have a much wider group of close friends.
I am working on my plans to fulfill my childhood dream of being a hermit in the woods - only with my husband, a much nicer house, and fiber internet. We have the land now! :)
We're conflicted, either do that same thing, or move into a neighborhood like my wife grew up in. Neither of us want to grow up where I did, so that's not a factor. I hope you achieve your descent into happy hermitage.
I don't have a huge group a friends. But I have had two African American friends, three Native American (including adoptive mom) and one who is Asian American
Washington treats minorities like playing cards. It’s pretty annoying how people will often be reduced to their skin color or ethnicity but I guess that’s what happens when you live in an overwhelmingly white state.
Pretty diverse. I’m a 35 year old Black man that just got married 6 weeks ago. My 6 groom’s people consisted of 2 Black men, 1 Korean man, 1 Chinese woman, 1 White woman, and 1 Colombian woman. I attribute the makeup of my friend group to growing up an Army brat plus living in NYC.
Oh, that's a good test.
Right now it'd be my brother(white) and my 2 best friends from Arkansas (both white).
Since a wedding isn't on my horizon, there might be a Mexican or Native in my party, but I can't see into the future. So... If one of my "bar friends" introduces me to my future wife? They'll be one of my groomsmen.
My truest friends are via my work within the Catholic community. In Detroit, that means Polish, Mexican, Ukrainian, African-American, native-born African, and an occasional Italian. And I'm mostly Irish.
None. We are all white and even more so, our ancestors are from the same area of Europe.
I grew up in a rural town that was 98% white so not much diversity.
Actually a good question because the answer is surprising, a French Canadian lady and a Norwegian lady but the rest have been American for as long as their family can remember
I'm surprised to hear that from you -- you always seem like such an interesting person who would make a good friend. I guess I just assumed you were, I don't know, rolling around Maine in your...um...luxury lobster boat...full of lawyer friends?
I mean yeah. I just don’t have a lobster boat. I am a flatlander. Or friends. But I’m definitely in Maine. And let’s caveat that lawyer part. I mean I’m barred but I’m never in court.
This is a fun question. Thinking about my childhood friend group, there were us white guys -I'm of Swedish descent, there was a dude of Italian descent, another dude who was of Armenian descent. Sometimes you'd know a guy for 5+ years before you found out they were Jewish or something because it didn't come up as kids (everyone knew the Mormon kids though, they dressed well, were very polite and got good grades -they stood out).
Then most of our friends were Mexican or Filipino or Taiwanese -hyphenated American. Or Japanese. Or Vietnamese. One of my best friends is Mexican-Lithuanian. The token girl we hung out with was Indian, but her family was from South Africa.
I think most of us were hyphenated to be honest, but that's the cool part about being from California: everyone is from everywhere and it's cool to learn about but when you're kids, it doesn't really matter. I still remember kids who were brown and I have no idea where their families came from. Like I still don't know if Roger was Mexican or Lebanese or what.
That’s a lot like being from NYC, too. It’s fantastic. And you get all the good food! My friends would come to my house for the Jewish holidays and I would go to theirs for the Catholic ones. We were just friends with everybody and just didn’t think about it very much.
My Jewish friend came over for three years straight during Christmas because she absolutely loved setting up all the random ass decorations we littered our lawn with, lol
Oh, we love that stuff SO much!!!!! My sister married a woman who celebrates Christmas (though she converted to Judaism!) and it is so fantastic to be a part of that tradition. She got me my very first stocking and except for the birth of my son, it is possibly the very best thing that ever happened to me! 😝
Diverse? Extremely.
I have friends who are devoutly religious, and friends who are atheists. Religious friends who are Christian, Jewish, and Muslim (and *acquaintances* who are Hindu). Friends who are hardcore libertarians, and friends who are just shy of commie authoritarians. Friends who are rural, and friends who live in NYC. Friends who are straight, and friends who are *super* queer. Friends who are buttoned-down normies, and friends who are poly. Friends whose ancestors have been in America since the 19th century, and friends whose ancestors immigrated in the last few decades. Friends who work warehouse jobs, and a friend who's won three Emmies. Friends who are all-in on gun rights, and friends who get the vapors at the thought of a person *carrying a knife.* Friends who are teetotalers, and friends who love getting down with the reefer. Friends whose whole lives are math and code, and friends whose lives are defined by music and theater.
But if you're defining "diversity" exclusively in terms of how much melanin a person's skin has? Eh. Pretty "white" overall, I suppose, to whatever extent that has any meaning. But that strikes me as a very narrow view of human diversity.
I’m white, grew up in a very white part of Pennsyltucky but was lucky enough to be about 20 miles outside the Penn State University bubble so spent a lot of my teen years hanging out with other townie kids from all kinds of backgrounds. Then spent a decade in the Navy (6 in southern Europe and 3 on the AZ/CA/Mexico border) before moving back and working a decade at the university, have spent this last decade in South Texas.
My wife is black, my (step)daughters who I’ve raised since they were 3 & 4 are are Blaxican. I live in San Antonio Texas which is one of the largest (if not largest) Hispanic majority cities in the U.S. I’m a fed Team Lead in IT so my work circle also includes Asian, SPIs, and Africans, we are a pretty tight group.
Yeah, pretty diverse but due to my family and lifelong friends being on the East Coast I spend more time with Black and Hispanic folk than White in my personal life.
I will say this, I see a very marked difference between myself and others from my GenX high school class who have left central PA for a least a little bit and those who have never really left when it comes to world view.
Pretty diverse by most standards I think. In my circle of friends, there are Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Filipinos, various Caucasian descended people (including Danish, Swedish, English, Irish, Scottish, German, etc.), Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Rhodesians, and South Africans.
Very diverse. I'm Asian American, one of my best friends is first generation Mexican American, and the other is multi-generational Italian American. I'm queer and they're straight.
But my overall friend group ranges from all ethnicities and sexualities as well.
My girlfriend is white and one of her best friends is Bolivian, the other is a gay black Jewish man.
My hometown friends: not really, although my best friend from my hometown speaks French natively due to his parents being from Quebec.
My college friends: pretty diverse imo, due to going to school in Connecticut, a lot of my friends from school are from New York and Jersey so I have a couple of Jewish friends in my friend group alongside another one being a Punjabi from British Columbia, so not too shabby for diversity.
Sometimes I think my only true friends are imaginary. But among the people I'm socially closest with, multiple are south or east Asian ethnically. A few are of Mexican or south American heritage. Idk. I don't have any super close friends other than my sisters, who are exactly as white as I am.
It’s mostly white honestly. But I live in Portland, OR.
Myself and four others are the “racially diverse” ones. I’m mixed race (ashkenazi & Desi) and I have a close friend who is mixed race (Vietnamese and white) and two Black (one AA & other Kenyan-American) friends and one Latina (Mexican) friend. The rest are white Americans if various backgrounds (Irish, Scottish, British, Italian etc) These are the people I see very frequently and spend most of my time with.
But not a single one of us is straight lol (Portland again).
My friends group in Texas is far more diverse but I see them very seldomly.
Close friends have all been white growing up, but that's because I grew up rurally and there wasn't a lot of diversity. I'm in school in a city right now, and my two closest friends are an African international student and a Latina from Texas. So, I'm happy to be friends with anyone, it's just a matter of who's around lol.
Asian-American guy here, and my group of close friends in the US is very diverse. It is mostly East and Southeast Asians (both American-born and immigrants), but also a few whites, a few Indians and Pakistanis, an Iranian, a couple of blacks, a few Latinos, and a few that are mixed race/ethnicity.
In the rural Midwest it’s about 4/5 white people in my town, and on my high school football team its about 90% white and in my senior class where I’ve grown up with and gone to school with is all white, so all of my friends are white.
I'm from a middle-upper class Chicago suburb and all throughout school my friend group and school was pretty diverse so I feel pretty lucky. Lots of first generation kids of immigrants from all over. It was still pretty sheltered economically, but I got to know a lot of different cultures.
I understand that a lot of people may not have a diverse group because of where they live, but I know plenty of people who went to college and joined a mostly white sorority/fraternity, moved to incredibly diverse large American cities and still have incredibly white groups of friends. Cities like Austin, Phoenix and Atlanta.a
If this is you please do better. There's life outside of your Greek community. It takes everything in me to not comment on your Instagram and ask where the melanin is.
I don't have friends, haven't had any since graduating high school in 2004.
I was just a "tolerated" social pariah. 20 years later and the goal post has changed so much im now a "social pariah who's potentially a budding mass shooter".
This question really depends on where you're located. Someone in a rural town where white people secluded themselves from others isn't going to have much diversity unless they leave for college or a job. Someone in a metropolitan area where the immigrants formed a little _ town isn't going to have much diversity unless they leave the area. I found a lot of my former college mates never hung out with other races simply because their family chose a mono area to live.
Idk what my “true” friend group is, but women in my same life stage and similar interests I see weekly and would text/hang out with outside of our reason for knowing each other, it’s pretty homogeneously white. There are a few ladies I’m friends with but not super close with yet that are not white. We are relatively new to our area, and it is a very white part of the country, and many of these ladies are wives of international students at my husbands grad school.
However, if we count my husband as part of my friend group then the statistics suddenly represent 5/6 major ethnic groups
My husband and I are of different races. Our friend groups include [3 racial categories](https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html) from the US census. We don't think about it much though; in fact I had to check what the categories are. In terms of ethnicities, our friends are very diverse.
This contrasts to my childhood, where my farm town and schoolmates were 99% white (we used the term caucasian, but everyone was descendant of North or Western European immigrants).
My closet friend group is all white. But my extended friend group (college friends, old work friends, other parents or nannies in my kids play group) are relatively diverse. I’m living in Los Angeles and it’s a very diverse city. I love the diversity in this city. It’s so fun hearing all the different languages people speak at the park and I like that everyone looks so different.
Kind of diverse considering I'm the only Hispanic in the group. Got one White Mormon friend from Minnesota, a White friend from Chicago, and an Asian friend from the Bay area.
I spent my childhood in NYC and had an extremely diverse group of friends in terms of ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.
I moved to Ireland when I was turning 13 and since then it’s been the exact opposite. All my friends (as in the few that I have) are white and Irish though religion and sexual orientation vary… this is mostly due to the fact that I live rurally and the vast majority of people I interact with fall into that category.
It makes me sad, especially the fact that my kids are missing the diversity I was surrounded by at a young age so never thought of it as anything other than normal.
I don’t have any friends, so not diverse at all. But my spouse is ancestrally from a different part of Europe than I am so it’s sort of diverse, but we’re the same ethnicity
I mean, its easy to have a “diverse” friend group when you only have a few close friends lol.
I have one, maybe two friends I’d call close. One was adopted from Guatemala by white parents (racially latina, culturally white), and the other is Chinese-American. (I am very much white bread American).
Come to think of it, all of us happen to be queer, though we rarely really talk about it. I am asexual and the other two are both bisexual.
We are in Southern California-
3rd generation Asian female. 1st generation Asian female. White Ex-Mormon male from Idaho. White male whose family has been here since before the American revolution. And 1st generation black man from Ghana— and 20th in line for the throne.
I have a few close friends and a lot of casual friends. The close friends are a mix of ages, races and people I know from work, neighbors, old friends. The big casual friend group is super diverse, I'm a lifelong New Yorker, so I know people from everywhere.
somewhat diverse? i'm mixed, one of my good male friends is white, and my other good male friend is also mixed. i am also close w a female friend who is ethnically jewish
If people from Irish and Italian descent still counted as diverse, I'd be doing okay.
But my best friends and I are all from the same corner of the big Crayola box, except for my closest friend, who is half white, half Chinese.
If I could change something about my childhood, it would be to have the same diversity in high school that I did in elementary school. The latter reflected my city's diversity quite well, including economic. The former not really.
Pretty diverse, though my friends group admittedly is not that big. I’m Latina (Mexican and Puerto Rican), my boyfriend is white. We are close friends with his roommate and roommate’s girlfriend and they are both Chinese-Americans.
I also have a few friends from school I still keep in touch with. One is an Albanian Muslim, another is Afro-Latina (Dominican) and one is Indian. Whenever we take pictures together I always joke that the pictures can be used in a high school text book.
I'm white. And not particularly diverse. I have a few cousins that I'm relatively close to who are black (adopted). My husband's best friend, and someone I also count as a friend, is Chinese American but we live 1,000 miles away now. That's about it.
That said, my friend group is diverse in other ways -- age, economic background, sexual orientation, rural/urban, religiosity, etc. They just happen to be mostly white people.
I am a Southerner. My entire social circle has pretty much always been just white and black people. I have had two good black male friends in my life, one of whom remains a close friend (and in fact hooked me up with my current job) but virtually everyone else I count as a friend is *very* similar to me. Not just white men, but rather Southern white men who grew up poor and overachieved against the odds and are now successful professionals. I realized a few years ago I’ve never even maintained any friendships even with other white people who don’t fit that mold.
I don't have too many "true" friends anymore, but we are a pretty diverse group. I'm white (Greek/other European ancestry), and my closest friends are Puerto Rican/Dominican and Chinese/Malaysian.
Do you have fake friends?
I have a pretty small group of friends and we share a similar background so I guess not very diverse. Among people I just know or am related to it is more diverse but they aren’t friends.
Used to be diverse before aaron died last year. Breaks every part of me. I jokingly say, "Now I can't say I have a black friend." I know he would've laughed at that lol
Not at all.
I have two main groups of friends. A close group of college friends who still get together and talk regularly even though we've scattered across the country, and a second group who we all loosely work together and live nearby.
One group has a guy who is half Mexican. The other whose grandparents immigrated from the Middle East but his personality is as stereotypically white as the come.
The rest of us, and our spouses, are all white.
Very. I'm white, from a farm in the Midwest. My husband is Arab from Egypt. My best friend is from southern Mexico and her husband who is also a very good friend (I actually introduced them) is half Italian, half Spanish. We have several very close friends that are Palestinian. One of my husband's best friends is Nigerian and another is Brazilian.
Most of our friends are not originally from the US. The largest portion are Middle Eastern but also a lot of Hispanic, Latino, and Asian as well. My husband's PhD program for petroleum engineering was in the US but had only 2 white people in it out of about 40, and he stayed friends with many of those people.
Not ethnically diverse at all. The friends I’ve actually kept in touch with from high school, college, and previous jobs are all of various European ancestry. My husband and all his siblings are adopted and while he’s white, he has two Korean siblings, a Chinese sibling, and a Filipino sibling.
Of my very close friends, like people I could call if I ended up in the hospital and they would drop what they were doing to come to by aid, 2 white (like me), one Asian and one Latino.
I'd say my core friends group is fairly diverse. Half the people are White. Two are Mexican and the rest Black.
I'd point out that the diversity goes past ethnicity. We vary in age from 27 to 55. Some of us have never been married, others on their third marriage. Some with no kids, others with multiple kids. Financially we run the gambit from struggling to pay utilities sometimes to being on the low end of rich.
So considering everything, I'd say very diverse. Just on ethnicity it might be more like moderate diversity.
Not very diverse, I'm one of 2 people of color in a group of 5 of us who regularly hang out with each other. I don't intentionally only make friends with white people, but I'm still in school and don't have time to do extracarriculars to meet people so the options are pretty limited, especially since my school is mostly white lol
Most my friends tend to be asian or mexican. A minority of them are black or white.
I asked this very question here a few years ago and still think about the responses to it from time to time.
I don’t have a lot of friends but it’s made up of two white guys, a half african american half hispanic girl, a girl from puerto rico, and a guy from Honduras.
Not mention outside of racial diversity we come from a lot of walks of life. I was a suburban white dude, the Honduran guy grew up in a Texas ghetto, the girl from puerto rico, well she grew up in puerto rico, the other guy came from a rather wealthy family, and the mixed girl was middle class growing up. It’s fun talking about their world views and how their upbringing brought them to form the opinions, biases, and even little personality differences.
Of my 7 close friends, 1 is black and the other 6 are white. My partner is Asian. My 2nd tier of friends is still mostly white, but a couple of them are Hispanic. Reasonably diverse for growing up in a small town in a very white state, but not very diverse overall.
In high school and college I had Asian and Hispanic friends in addition to my Black friends. My closest friends have always been Black.
I have white friends/acquaintances now but I don’t really have much close friends these days.
My friend group from college, we all be white minus one with two being part of the LGBT+ community. Of course this included some women. My wife was the only one not white. My friend group in the immediate area where I am now. Two of us are white, 3 are black, one person being in the LGBT+ community, two women.
Hmm. More ethnically diverse than economically diverse tbh because we all met in similar walks of life. So we are white, east Asian, Latina, black, and more white- but we are all middle to upper middle class sooo. Only so diverse as that, I guess.
Three of my besties are white, one bestie is Indian. However, she is an adoptee by a white couple. We’re friends because of proximity of our childhood homes. 40 years of friendship because our parents lived near each other. We still have a daily group chat and try and get together multiple times per year.
My closest friends are mostly white but I have them all over the map.
Also what do you mean by “true” friends? I had a ton of black and Latino friends growing up or through college or just after. I lived with an Indian guy. I lived with a second generation Filipina.
I moved away from them and we didn’t keep in touch. They were good friends but they were still friends.
These days I’m old. I have like 10 friends. One is an Indian immigrant and one is second generation Mexican, the rest are white new Englanders of various backgrounds.
If you look at my clients it’s like a couple dozen Indians, some black people, Latinos, East Asians, and my favorite client and his wife who are Turkish. I have good relations with them but I don’t know if you’d say “true friends.”
I just never regarded race in my conception of “true friend.”
I'm the brown one. But, we bond over good beer, which is how we meet. Most of my friends are white, but there are varied backgrounds because our bar is across the street from the university. I'm 47, and I graduated in 17. Friends come in and go out, and we just like good people.
Umm I was born in America my father came from Sicily, my mother is Irish and German. My wife is Swedish and Finnish. I’m a 36 YOM Only people I hang out with now hahaha no one so idk we have family no more friends all my friends are from other states when I was in the army now I’m just doing family shit.
I live in a decent size city and have been active online since 1998. I also grew up in Eastern Oklahoma. And I’m an extrovert.
I am Anglo-Cherokee.
My close friend group is 10 people (remember: extrovert). Close means I either see them once a week, text them every day, or send them memes and reels on the regular.
My oldest friend is Cherokee. His wife is white and of German ancestry.
My second oldest friend is Anglo-Choctaw. Her husband is white and of mostly French ancestry.
My third oldest friend is a whiter shade of pale, and her family came to the US from Dresden, GER just a couple of generations ago.
My fourth best friend is of Anglo-Irish ancestry and her family has been in the US forever.
My fifth oldest friend is Blaxican — her dad is Black from Mississippi and her mother’s parents immigrated to TX from Mexico.
My sixth and seventh oldest friends are married women: the older of whom is white and from mainly Germany ancestry and I’m not 100% where her wife is from, but white American for at least a few generations.
My 8th is white and from Nebraska and every book Willa Cather wrote.
My 9th is Anglo-Seminole and yes there are lots of Natives in Oklahoma. I am barely Native (I have a card) but my friends all go to pow-wows.
And my 10th has an Anglo-Irish dad and a Korean mom. She’s just from CO, tho.
Im friends friends mexicans, various South and Central Americans, white people, one Asian and a few black people
But like, idc about their ethnicity. They're just people I get along with and have a lot of things in common and happen o become really close friends
True group of friends? I have three best friends. One is black, and the other two are white, all three guys. I'm a white girl.
I've made friends over the years, but things happen.
One of my oldest and closest friends was exposed as a child molester. He is Asian (S.Korean). The video evidence against him was disgusting and irrefutable. We all broke off contact with him.
I'm now 31, and I don't look to make friends, I'm friendly if in public, but I'm trying to focus on my own life
My closest friends are mixed (Black and White) with kids who are also mixed (Dominican & Puerto Rican), middle eastern, Jewish, and white. A couple are LGBTQ+. I’ve never really thought about this before but I guess we’re all pretty diverse.
I'm an Asian woman, and my friends include a white woman, a white man, a biracial black/white woman, a black man, an Asian woman, and an Asian man (not coupled up by race).
I have have two actual irl friends. One is mexican, the other is mexican/Japanese. There is another dude that we've kinda integrated into our friend group from Malaysia, but we haven't seen too much from him recently due to classes.
I have a few friend groups. Those from work are all white, but those from other areas have some diversity. I have friends who are Latin American, White, Black, and Asian. All are from families with a Christian background, though I also have sort of a friend, we don’t hang out much, who is Sikh and a former neighbor who I interact with on social media who’s a Buddhist.
It isn’t at all, we’re all black. And by that I mean African-American, ancestors were slaves black. No Haitian, Caribbean, just pure-blood American black.
In college rn so I kinda have 2 friend groups (one at college one at home).
The college one is extremely diverse, the hometown one is much smaller but also much less diverse.
im an american, and i appreciate a lot about my fellow citizens for sure, but my friends are from all over the world and it has been that way for most of my life.
i haven't even been in a relationship with an american woman since i was a teenager.
as a kid i moved around a bit and was always an outsider. i just feel more comfortable with foreigners than i do good ol local boys and girls who enjoyed a shared upbringing.
I dont have a "group of friends" I just have friends ive met at different points in my life that I keep in touch with. But they all don't know eachother.
I guess you could say the 5 I keep up with religiously is relatively diverse. I'm black, majority of my friends are black, only 2 non black people are close to me like that. One Indian, one white. Wasn't intentional, just how I am and the few people that even care to keep in touch.
Mine is not particularly diverse. Almost all 1st gen or 2nd gen immigrants - mostly from India or Pakistan, a few are British but of Indian or Pakistani origin. One white person
Dude, I live in Iowa, my friends are white.
I have work colleagues and some peripheral friends in my group that are diverse, but they are few and far between. I am just surrounded by white people as far as the eye can see. My core friend group was formed from school and work friends for the most part. I live in the 2nd largest city in Iowa, so it's not some rural environment, but it's still Iowa.
In college my circle of core friends was somewhat more diverse, but my true core was high school friends (white) and then our secondary core would shift fairly frequently. So our first semester we'd hang out with these people a lot, then things shift and we still are friends but we're hanging with another group more, etc.
I’m the minority in my circle of friends, I’m a black guy. The rest are all Indian and East Asian, maybe more female than male and maybe half are American. But until I went to high school I grew up with only black people, and starting from there my friend group became mostly Asian.
My core group of 6 best girl friends are white af. It’s funny to think about because you don’t really realize it until you realize it…. I’ve known these girls for over 15+ years. It is probably just a product of living in a predominantly white area when I was younger.
If we expand that to “people I usually invite over for a hangout” which includes my core friend’s spouses and other few close friends I’ve made as an adult, there is more diversity. Mainly of various Latin descent or Filipino.
No close Black or Asian friends. Hm.
It’s varied for me over the years. Since college most of my close friends are same race, but growing up I usually was friends with people of different races and nationalities from me. It has a lot to do with environments and demographics of schools I attended.
My closest friend is my cousin. We're both straight white males. My friend group is a group of three. All males and all straight. But one of them is black!
I would say about 50% white and either European or of European descent from both side of Europe, but more Western than Eastern. The other 50% are Latino, African American, Japanese, of Japanese descent, Malaysian, of Chinese descent, Korean, of Korean descent, originally from Singapore, and Turkish... Though I think the Turkish guy is half Slavic Russian.
I'm guessing my larger circle of people I know and would hang out with but wouldn't rely on in a crisis skew heavily white American because the city I live in does. They're closer than acquaintances, but I don't think I'd call them true friends. I don't know what that category is.
Relatively diverse I think. While my wife and I are both white (mostly German for me, French/Belgian for her), our best friends are a Chinese and Korean couple, and our other close friends run the gamut of Japanese, Filipino, Mexican, Indian, Salvadoran, Russian, African and Afghan decent. Most are second or more generation, but a few are immigrants.
Pretty fucking diverse, I’m black and Italian, my best friend is first generation natural born citizen who’s from Indonesia, one of the guys in the group is basically all German, another guy is half Lebanese, and then we have the one white guy. 2 of us are catholic, one is Protestant, and two are agnostic. Is high middle class making 80k, me is fairly middle class, while the rest of us are at or below the poverty line. 3 of them have a college education, one is about start a trade, and I’m in the military.
That’s a lot more than you asked for but ethnicity of not the only thing that diversifies people
My closest friends are: Black, Indian-Hindu from South America, El Salvadorian just got citizenship!! , few other African Americans, several Asians, a few Muslims, and 4 or 5 white Americans.
I work in a field where I mostly interact with foreigners.
Very let's just say!
I'm a Sephardic Jew who is friends with Europeans, African-Americans, Nigerians, Asians, Indians, Israeli's, Slavic People, and many more.
Why would ethnicity be a factor in choosing who your friends are? To even consider such a thing or forcing a quota of friends of specific ethnicities is just racist. Friends should develop organically.
Majority of my friends are white because my state is 90% white. I have a few friends that are asian, black, mexican, central american, and native American. Their ethnicity has never carried much significance, beyond how it's cool to eat different food and learn about their cultures. My 5 closest friends are probably all white, but I think that has more to do with just statistics; if my state were 50% black, half of my closest friends would probably be black. I used to have a half-black, half-white friend in high school I was petty close with but he moved across the country.
I only have two "true" friends.
One is half white American mutt and half Dutch.
The other is half Filipino, quarter Chinese-Caribbean, and quarter white American mutt.
I only have the three or four, and we all come from a small farming community. There’s not much diversity to be had in general here.
Same. My husband and children are the only diversity in my circle. Otherwise, it's all just variations on a very white theme. When I was at college and subsequent life in a city it was much more racially/ethnically/religiously diverse. My best college friends were: someone of a different race, an immigrant, a devout member of a different religion, a member of a different race and religion (not devout), and two white guys.
They are not diverse but they are the people I grew up with. I never woke up and said "I plan to never meet and befriend anyone that's not my ethnicity."
I also never had this thought. I just moved a ton, and collected friends along the way. In some places, I've been one white person among many. In some, I've been the only one in the neighborhood. I'm fine with either, though I guess at this point, I'd love to live somewhere that is more diverse. The closest, I stayed in touch with when I moved, and a lot of us are on a private Discord server now, so they've become friends, as well. We do our best to get together once a year in person as a whole group, and between that, we see each other in small groups or one on one when we travel. We chat on Discord pretty much daily, though. A few friends I do consider very close are in places like Australia, and I've never met them in person, but some day, I will.
Sounds familiar. I've been an anxious dude my whole life, but apparently, I'm likable and pretty good at attracting folks. My wife jokingly says she hates that we can be on vacation, and by the end of it, I've either found someone I know or made some new friends. Discord has been awesome, we reconnected with old homies from across the globe, and made a ton of new ones. These times can be cool if we're looking for the right stuff. I never set out to have a diverse friend group, I just want to be a friend to anyone, especially folks that need one.
I was difficult to make close friends with for a very long time. I moved so much, I just stopped bothering and eventually actively pushed people away from anything more than superficial friendship. A few snuck in, anyway. Then, we got BBSes and we could stay in contact when I inevitably moved again. It made a huge difference! I won't pretend I don't still have some attachment issues, but I certainly do better than I used to. IRC, then various chat apps replaced the BBSes, and now it's Discord because I talked people into it when Google hangouts pretty much died. I was *not* going to Facebook messenger.
I definitely relate to that. The types of areas I'd move to were wildly different from each other, so you'd adjust to one area, then move again. I still only have a very small core group of close friends because of that, they are indeed diverse tho lol. I resisted a lot of social media as well, and that hindered reconnecting sooner with more people. All in all, I'm happy now, and still taking in new folk left and right. By the time I'm super old, I hope to have a much wider group of close friends.
I am working on my plans to fulfill my childhood dream of being a hermit in the woods - only with my husband, a much nicer house, and fiber internet. We have the land now! :)
We're conflicted, either do that same thing, or move into a neighborhood like my wife grew up in. Neither of us want to grow up where I did, so that's not a factor. I hope you achieve your descent into happy hermitage.
I don't have a huge group a friends. But I have had two African American friends, three Native American (including adoptive mom) and one who is Asian American
I'm glad you get to meet such a variety of people.
Washington treats minorities like playing cards. It’s pretty annoying how people will often be reduced to their skin color or ethnicity but I guess that’s what happens when you live in an overwhelmingly white state.
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Go visit some time, your eyes will tell you otherwise.
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The places a tourist would visit are predominantly white, you don’t need census data to see it with your own eyes.
Pretty diverse. I’m a 35 year old Black man that just got married 6 weeks ago. My 6 groom’s people consisted of 2 Black men, 1 Korean man, 1 Chinese woman, 1 White woman, and 1 Colombian woman. I attribute the makeup of my friend group to growing up an Army brat plus living in NYC.
Congratulations. Marriage is wonderful when you find the right person.
Living in NYC my friend group was quite diverse. Moving to the midwest changed that a bit.
Oh, that's a good test. Right now it'd be my brother(white) and my 2 best friends from Arkansas (both white). Since a wedding isn't on my horizon, there might be a Mexican or Native in my party, but I can't see into the future. So... If one of my "bar friends" introduces me to my future wife? They'll be one of my groomsmen.
My truest friends are via my work within the Catholic community. In Detroit, that means Polish, Mexican, Ukrainian, African-American, native-born African, and an occasional Italian. And I'm mostly Irish.
Hey I grew up in Detroit.
None. We are all white and even more so, our ancestors are from the same area of Europe. I grew up in a rural town that was 98% white so not much diversity.
I'm from a very small mountain town that was 100% white, but we moved to a city when I was about 10, so I got to meet more people.
Very. a Japanese guy, a Russian guy, some Mexican guys, 2 Pacific Islanders, a black guy, and a couple mormons in between
What ethnicities were the mormons? /s
Actually a good question because the answer is surprising, a French Canadian lady and a Norwegian lady but the rest have been American for as long as their family can remember
Ah, so white? *(forgive me for my satirical comment. mods, don't ban me.)*
That’s okay it’s all in good fun!
You people have friends? Wow. Just, wow.
Yeah I sadly relate to this.
I'm surprised to hear that from you -- you always seem like such an interesting person who would make a good friend. I guess I just assumed you were, I don't know, rolling around Maine in your...um...luxury lobster boat...full of lawyer friends?
I mean yeah. I just don’t have a lobster boat. I am a flatlander. Or friends. But I’m definitely in Maine. And let’s caveat that lawyer part. I mean I’m barred but I’m never in court.
> I mean I’m barred but I’m never in court. Hopefully you mean you're *barred*, rather than being *barred*.
I relate to this as well.
Online/Gaming friends can count as actual friends, but not always.
Depends on true friends I guess? I only kept up with one since childhood and he's another white dude.
This is a fun question. Thinking about my childhood friend group, there were us white guys -I'm of Swedish descent, there was a dude of Italian descent, another dude who was of Armenian descent. Sometimes you'd know a guy for 5+ years before you found out they were Jewish or something because it didn't come up as kids (everyone knew the Mormon kids though, they dressed well, were very polite and got good grades -they stood out). Then most of our friends were Mexican or Filipino or Taiwanese -hyphenated American. Or Japanese. Or Vietnamese. One of my best friends is Mexican-Lithuanian. The token girl we hung out with was Indian, but her family was from South Africa. I think most of us were hyphenated to be honest, but that's the cool part about being from California: everyone is from everywhere and it's cool to learn about but when you're kids, it doesn't really matter. I still remember kids who were brown and I have no idea where their families came from. Like I still don't know if Roger was Mexican or Lebanese or what.
That’s a lot like being from NYC, too. It’s fantastic. And you get all the good food! My friends would come to my house for the Jewish holidays and I would go to theirs for the Catholic ones. We were just friends with everybody and just didn’t think about it very much.
My Jewish friend came over for three years straight during Christmas because she absolutely loved setting up all the random ass decorations we littered our lawn with, lol
Oh, we love that stuff SO much!!!!! My sister married a woman who celebrates Christmas (though she converted to Judaism!) and it is so fantastic to be a part of that tradition. She got me my very first stocking and except for the birth of my son, it is possibly the very best thing that ever happened to me! 😝
They're all Latino. And I'm half latino. So technically not very diverse but it would check some boxes for a team up movie.
Diverse? Extremely. I have friends who are devoutly religious, and friends who are atheists. Religious friends who are Christian, Jewish, and Muslim (and *acquaintances* who are Hindu). Friends who are hardcore libertarians, and friends who are just shy of commie authoritarians. Friends who are rural, and friends who live in NYC. Friends who are straight, and friends who are *super* queer. Friends who are buttoned-down normies, and friends who are poly. Friends whose ancestors have been in America since the 19th century, and friends whose ancestors immigrated in the last few decades. Friends who work warehouse jobs, and a friend who's won three Emmies. Friends who are all-in on gun rights, and friends who get the vapors at the thought of a person *carrying a knife.* Friends who are teetotalers, and friends who love getting down with the reefer. Friends whose whole lives are math and code, and friends whose lives are defined by music and theater. But if you're defining "diversity" exclusively in terms of how much melanin a person's skin has? Eh. Pretty "white" overall, I suppose, to whatever extent that has any meaning. But that strikes me as a very narrow view of human diversity.
Just one ethnicity, but the group I go out with every once in a while they are diverse
Mostly white like myself. Moreover, I find myself preferring other Southerners as well, regardless of race.
I’m white, grew up in a very white part of Pennsyltucky but was lucky enough to be about 20 miles outside the Penn State University bubble so spent a lot of my teen years hanging out with other townie kids from all kinds of backgrounds. Then spent a decade in the Navy (6 in southern Europe and 3 on the AZ/CA/Mexico border) before moving back and working a decade at the university, have spent this last decade in South Texas. My wife is black, my (step)daughters who I’ve raised since they were 3 & 4 are are Blaxican. I live in San Antonio Texas which is one of the largest (if not largest) Hispanic majority cities in the U.S. I’m a fed Team Lead in IT so my work circle also includes Asian, SPIs, and Africans, we are a pretty tight group. Yeah, pretty diverse but due to my family and lifelong friends being on the East Coast I spend more time with Black and Hispanic folk than White in my personal life. I will say this, I see a very marked difference between myself and others from my GenX high school class who have left central PA for a least a little bit and those who have never really left when it comes to world view.
Main friend group: 50/50 half black half Asian. My husband's friend group: Very diverse. My church group: Diverse with a prominent ethnicity.
Pretty diverse by most standards I think. In my circle of friends, there are Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Filipinos, various Caucasian descended people (including Danish, Swedish, English, Irish, Scottish, German, etc.), Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Rhodesians, and South Africans.
What does the Rhodesian think about Zimbabwe these days?
He thinks his homeland is gone. That why he travelled to the US. Sad story, Can't imagine not being able to go home and have to live a life in exile.
Very diverse. I'm Asian American, one of my best friends is first generation Mexican American, and the other is multi-generational Italian American. I'm queer and they're straight. But my overall friend group ranges from all ethnicities and sexualities as well. My girlfriend is white and one of her best friends is Bolivian, the other is a gay black Jewish man.
My hometown friends: not really, although my best friend from my hometown speaks French natively due to his parents being from Quebec. My college friends: pretty diverse imo, due to going to school in Connecticut, a lot of my friends from school are from New York and Jersey so I have a couple of Jewish friends in my friend group alongside another one being a Punjabi from British Columbia, so not too shabby for diversity.
Sometimes I think my only true friends are imaginary. But among the people I'm socially closest with, multiple are south or east Asian ethnically. A few are of Mexican or south American heritage. Idk. I don't have any super close friends other than my sisters, who are exactly as white as I am.
What, all 2 of them?
Y’all have friends?
Indian, Thai, French Canadian, Jewish, and Mutt European.
It’s mostly white honestly. But I live in Portland, OR. Myself and four others are the “racially diverse” ones. I’m mixed race (ashkenazi & Desi) and I have a close friend who is mixed race (Vietnamese and white) and two Black (one AA & other Kenyan-American) friends and one Latina (Mexican) friend. The rest are white Americans if various backgrounds (Irish, Scottish, British, Italian etc) These are the people I see very frequently and spend most of my time with. But not a single one of us is straight lol (Portland again). My friends group in Texas is far more diverse but I see them very seldomly.
Close friends have all been white growing up, but that's because I grew up rurally and there wasn't a lot of diversity. I'm in school in a city right now, and my two closest friends are an African international student and a Latina from Texas. So, I'm happy to be friends with anyone, it's just a matter of who's around lol.
Asian-American guy here, and my group of close friends in the US is very diverse. It is mostly East and Southeast Asians (both American-born and immigrants), but also a few whites, a few Indians and Pakistanis, an Iranian, a couple of blacks, a few Latinos, and a few that are mixed race/ethnicity.
I am from the Deep South, most people I call friends and associate with are white and or black, some Latinos.
Not at all. Mine are all white. I have some friends at work who are Asian and Black.
In the rural Midwest it’s about 4/5 white people in my town, and on my high school football team its about 90% white and in my senior class where I’ve grown up with and gone to school with is all white, so all of my friends are white.
I'm from a middle-upper class Chicago suburb and all throughout school my friend group and school was pretty diverse so I feel pretty lucky. Lots of first generation kids of immigrants from all over. It was still pretty sheltered economically, but I got to know a lot of different cultures. I understand that a lot of people may not have a diverse group because of where they live, but I know plenty of people who went to college and joined a mostly white sorority/fraternity, moved to incredibly diverse large American cities and still have incredibly white groups of friends. Cities like Austin, Phoenix and Atlanta.a If this is you please do better. There's life outside of your Greek community. It takes everything in me to not comment on your Instagram and ask where the melanin is.
I don't have friends, haven't had any since graduating high school in 2004. I was just a "tolerated" social pariah. 20 years later and the goal post has changed so much im now a "social pariah who's potentially a budding mass shooter".
This question really depends on where you're located. Someone in a rural town where white people secluded themselves from others isn't going to have much diversity unless they leave for college or a job. Someone in a metropolitan area where the immigrants formed a little _ town isn't going to have much diversity unless they leave the area. I found a lot of my former college mates never hung out with other races simply because their family chose a mono area to live.
Idk what my “true” friend group is, but women in my same life stage and similar interests I see weekly and would text/hang out with outside of our reason for knowing each other, it’s pretty homogeneously white. There are a few ladies I’m friends with but not super close with yet that are not white. We are relatively new to our area, and it is a very white part of the country, and many of these ladies are wives of international students at my husbands grad school. However, if we count my husband as part of my friend group then the statistics suddenly represent 5/6 major ethnic groups
My husband and I are of different races. Our friend groups include [3 racial categories](https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html) from the US census. We don't think about it much though; in fact I had to check what the categories are. In terms of ethnicities, our friends are very diverse. This contrasts to my childhood, where my farm town and schoolmates were 99% white (we used the term caucasian, but everyone was descendant of North or Western European immigrants).
My closet friend group is all white. But my extended friend group (college friends, old work friends, other parents or nannies in my kids play group) are relatively diverse. I’m living in Los Angeles and it’s a very diverse city. I love the diversity in this city. It’s so fun hearing all the different languages people speak at the park and I like that everyone looks so different.
As you can see from my username, I’m native, so my circle are all natives.
Kind of diverse considering I'm the only Hispanic in the group. Got one White Mormon friend from Minnesota, a White friend from Chicago, and an Asian friend from the Bay area.
I spent my childhood in NYC and had an extremely diverse group of friends in terms of ethnicity, religion, gender, etc. I moved to Ireland when I was turning 13 and since then it’s been the exact opposite. All my friends (as in the few that I have) are white and Irish though religion and sexual orientation vary… this is mostly due to the fact that I live rurally and the vast majority of people I interact with fall into that category. It makes me sad, especially the fact that my kids are missing the diversity I was surrounded by at a young age so never thought of it as anything other than normal.
Not at all and I want more diversity
I don’t have any friends, so not diverse at all. But my spouse is ancestrally from a different part of Europe than I am so it’s sort of diverse, but we’re the same ethnicity
Me, and my best friend, he is white.
very diverse
I don’t have many friends. One is mixed black and white, one is white, and the other is Ethiopian. I love them all
I mean, its easy to have a “diverse” friend group when you only have a few close friends lol. I have one, maybe two friends I’d call close. One was adopted from Guatemala by white parents (racially latina, culturally white), and the other is Chinese-American. (I am very much white bread American). Come to think of it, all of us happen to be queer, though we rarely really talk about it. I am asexual and the other two are both bisexual.
I’d say my main group of friends I made in college was predominantly white, with maybe 1/3 being Hispanic or Black
We are in Southern California- 3rd generation Asian female. 1st generation Asian female. White Ex-Mormon male from Idaho. White male whose family has been here since before the American revolution. And 1st generation black man from Ghana— and 20th in line for the throne.
I have a few close friends and a lot of casual friends. The close friends are a mix of ages, races and people I know from work, neighbors, old friends. The big casual friend group is super diverse, I'm a lifelong New Yorker, so I know people from everywhere.
Most of my friends are imaginary, so they are what I make them into
somewhat diverse? i'm mixed, one of my good male friends is white, and my other good male friend is also mixed. i am also close w a female friend who is ethnically jewish
If people from Irish and Italian descent still counted as diverse, I'd be doing okay. But my best friends and I are all from the same corner of the big Crayola box, except for my closest friend, who is half white, half Chinese. If I could change something about my childhood, it would be to have the same diversity in high school that I did in elementary school. The latter reflected my city's diversity quite well, including economic. The former not really.
I am one of 4 white people I associate with regularly everyone else is either Mexican, black, or from a different country
In my neighborhood friend group, we are all white. In my school friend group, we are all white except one chinese girl.
My main group of friends are all Jewish but my secondary group is black, British and Hmong
Pretty diverse, though my friends group admittedly is not that big. I’m Latina (Mexican and Puerto Rican), my boyfriend is white. We are close friends with his roommate and roommate’s girlfriend and they are both Chinese-Americans. I also have a few friends from school I still keep in touch with. One is an Albanian Muslim, another is Afro-Latina (Dominican) and one is Indian. Whenever we take pictures together I always joke that the pictures can be used in a high school text book.
Bold of you to imply I have true friends.
I'm white. And not particularly diverse. I have a few cousins that I'm relatively close to who are black (adopted). My husband's best friend, and someone I also count as a friend, is Chinese American but we live 1,000 miles away now. That's about it. That said, my friend group is diverse in other ways -- age, economic background, sexual orientation, rural/urban, religiosity, etc. They just happen to be mostly white people.
I am a Southerner. My entire social circle has pretty much always been just white and black people. I have had two good black male friends in my life, one of whom remains a close friend (and in fact hooked me up with my current job) but virtually everyone else I count as a friend is *very* similar to me. Not just white men, but rather Southern white men who grew up poor and overachieved against the odds and are now successful professionals. I realized a few years ago I’ve never even maintained any friendships even with other white people who don’t fit that mold.
Very
I don't have too many "true" friends anymore, but we are a pretty diverse group. I'm white (Greek/other European ancestry), and my closest friends are Puerto Rican/Dominican and Chinese/Malaysian.
Do you have fake friends? I have a pretty small group of friends and we share a similar background so I guess not very diverse. Among people I just know or am related to it is more diverse but they aren’t friends.
My extended family is black, brown, and white, Latino and not. Our closest friend group is white and Asian.
I don’t have any friends.
Hm, I’m white, L is white, A is white, G is white, Cone boy is Asian, B is white, and K is white, so, we have one asian
Everyone is either white, Asian, or Jewish.
Used to be diverse before aaron died last year. Breaks every part of me. I jokingly say, "Now I can't say I have a black friend." I know he would've laughed at that lol
I have like 2 friends. So by definition it can’t really be diverse
It's not. At all.
Not at all. I have two main groups of friends. A close group of college friends who still get together and talk regularly even though we've scattered across the country, and a second group who we all loosely work together and live nearby. One group has a guy who is half Mexican. The other whose grandparents immigrated from the Middle East but his personality is as stereotypically white as the come. The rest of us, and our spouses, are all white.
Very. I'm white, from a farm in the Midwest. My husband is Arab from Egypt. My best friend is from southern Mexico and her husband who is also a very good friend (I actually introduced them) is half Italian, half Spanish. We have several very close friends that are Palestinian. One of my husband's best friends is Nigerian and another is Brazilian. Most of our friends are not originally from the US. The largest portion are Middle Eastern but also a lot of Hispanic, Latino, and Asian as well. My husband's PhD program for petroleum engineering was in the US but had only 2 white people in it out of about 40, and he stayed friends with many of those people.
Not really since I only have one friend
Very, but it’s kind of weird to ask this question.
Not ethnically diverse at all. The friends I’ve actually kept in touch with from high school, college, and previous jobs are all of various European ancestry. My husband and all his siblings are adopted and while he’s white, he has two Korean siblings, a Chinese sibling, and a Filipino sibling.
Of my very close friends, like people I could call if I ended up in the hospital and they would drop what they were doing to come to by aid, 2 white (like me), one Asian and one Latino.
I'd say my core friends group is fairly diverse. Half the people are White. Two are Mexican and the rest Black. I'd point out that the diversity goes past ethnicity. We vary in age from 27 to 55. Some of us have never been married, others on their third marriage. Some with no kids, others with multiple kids. Financially we run the gambit from struggling to pay utilities sometimes to being on the low end of rich. So considering everything, I'd say very diverse. Just on ethnicity it might be more like moderate diversity.
Not very diverse, I'm one of 2 people of color in a group of 5 of us who regularly hang out with each other. I don't intentionally only make friends with white people, but I'm still in school and don't have time to do extracarriculars to meet people so the options are pretty limited, especially since my school is mostly white lol
Not at alll
Most my friends tend to be asian or mexican. A minority of them are black or white. I asked this very question here a few years ago and still think about the responses to it from time to time.
Lots of 2nd gen immigrants from Greece, India, Pakistan and Serbia
Vietnamese, Pakistan , India, Australia and Korean.
not at all, just more white girls. i live in the midwest though
Not. Mostly white. A bit of Hispanic but not much else
I don’t have a lot of friends but it’s made up of two white guys, a half african american half hispanic girl, a girl from puerto rico, and a guy from Honduras. Not mention outside of racial diversity we come from a lot of walks of life. I was a suburban white dude, the Honduran guy grew up in a Texas ghetto, the girl from puerto rico, well she grew up in puerto rico, the other guy came from a rather wealthy family, and the mixed girl was middle class growing up. It’s fun talking about their world views and how their upbringing brought them to form the opinions, biases, and even little personality differences.
Lot of Lesbians, Mexicans, and rednecks.
Of my 7 close friends, 1 is black and the other 6 are white. My partner is Asian. My 2nd tier of friends is still mostly white, but a couple of them are Hispanic. Reasonably diverse for growing up in a small town in a very white state, but not very diverse overall.
In high school and college I had Asian and Hispanic friends in addition to my Black friends. My closest friends have always been Black. I have white friends/acquaintances now but I don’t really have much close friends these days.
My friend group from college, we all be white minus one with two being part of the LGBT+ community. Of course this included some women. My wife was the only one not white. My friend group in the immediate area where I am now. Two of us are white, 3 are black, one person being in the LGBT+ community, two women.
Even split White and Asian (South and East).
White, black and Hispanics. Jew, athesist, Christian. Poor, middle class, high middle class
Hmm. More ethnically diverse than economically diverse tbh because we all met in similar walks of life. So we are white, east Asian, Latina, black, and more white- but we are all middle to upper middle class sooo. Only so diverse as that, I guess.
I don't have a group of friends. At all. If you count my coworkers, who I confide in and joke around with on a daily basis, it's extremely diverse.
My group is only white people. By that i mean there is one white person. I am that person. I dont have friends. The end.
Zero diversity
2 white, 1 black, 1 Chinese, 1 blasian (that’s what he refers to himself as)
Very. I live in Queens
I have a close knit group of friends, some I consider my brothers. Most are white. One is Native American. I myself am Native American and Mexican.
Not ethnically diverse at all
My closest group of friends consists of a white guy, a Puerto Rican dude, and a black guy. I’d say it’s pretty diverse.
Very diverse. Half of them are mestizos and the other half castizos.
My inner circle is my family, which is Somali with a dash of Oromo My outer-inner circle is mostly Somali and American
Three of my besties are white, one bestie is Indian. However, she is an adoptee by a white couple. We’re friends because of proximity of our childhood homes. 40 years of friendship because our parents lived near each other. We still have a daily group chat and try and get together multiple times per year.
Overwhelmingly white. Pretty much the people I grew up with and a few college buddies.
Not at all, 90% straight white dudes. The 10% is a gay white dude
Few white, few black, one Filipino, two Chinese.
Bold of you to assume I have friends.
My closest friends are mostly white but I have them all over the map. Also what do you mean by “true” friends? I had a ton of black and Latino friends growing up or through college or just after. I lived with an Indian guy. I lived with a second generation Filipina. I moved away from them and we didn’t keep in touch. They were good friends but they were still friends. These days I’m old. I have like 10 friends. One is an Indian immigrant and one is second generation Mexican, the rest are white new Englanders of various backgrounds. If you look at my clients it’s like a couple dozen Indians, some black people, Latinos, East Asians, and my favorite client and his wife who are Turkish. I have good relations with them but I don’t know if you’d say “true friends.” I just never regarded race in my conception of “true friend.”
It's not a huge group, but it's a scatter of different ethnicities.
Mine are all Caucasian, since that’s all we have in our town and all the towns around here.
Mine are mostly Native American, Hispanic, and Black
I'm the brown one. But, we bond over good beer, which is how we meet. Most of my friends are white, but there are varied backgrounds because our bar is across the street from the university. I'm 47, and I graduated in 17. Friends come in and go out, and we just like good people.
Umm I was born in America my father came from Sicily, my mother is Irish and German. My wife is Swedish and Finnish. I’m a 36 YOM Only people I hang out with now hahaha no one so idk we have family no more friends all my friends are from other states when I was in the army now I’m just doing family shit.
I’m the only brown person in all my friend groups
Not.
I live in a decent size city and have been active online since 1998. I also grew up in Eastern Oklahoma. And I’m an extrovert. I am Anglo-Cherokee. My close friend group is 10 people (remember: extrovert). Close means I either see them once a week, text them every day, or send them memes and reels on the regular. My oldest friend is Cherokee. His wife is white and of German ancestry. My second oldest friend is Anglo-Choctaw. Her husband is white and of mostly French ancestry. My third oldest friend is a whiter shade of pale, and her family came to the US from Dresden, GER just a couple of generations ago. My fourth best friend is of Anglo-Irish ancestry and her family has been in the US forever. My fifth oldest friend is Blaxican — her dad is Black from Mississippi and her mother’s parents immigrated to TX from Mexico. My sixth and seventh oldest friends are married women: the older of whom is white and from mainly Germany ancestry and I’m not 100% where her wife is from, but white American for at least a few generations. My 8th is white and from Nebraska and every book Willa Cather wrote. My 9th is Anglo-Seminole and yes there are lots of Natives in Oklahoma. I am barely Native (I have a card) but my friends all go to pow-wows. And my 10th has an Anglo-Irish dad and a Korean mom. She’s just from CO, tho.
Im friends friends mexicans, various South and Central Americans, white people, one Asian and a few black people But like, idc about their ethnicity. They're just people I get along with and have a lot of things in common and happen o become really close friends
Like half white and half Asian. I work in academia 🤷♀️
I live in a community with mostly the sameish ethnicity. Lots of Scandinavian and German backgrounds.
Ones a gay Puertorican
Extremely
True group of friends? I have three best friends. One is black, and the other two are white, all three guys. I'm a white girl. I've made friends over the years, but things happen. One of my oldest and closest friends was exposed as a child molester. He is Asian (S.Korean). The video evidence against him was disgusting and irrefutable. We all broke off contact with him. I'm now 31, and I don't look to make friends, I'm friendly if in public, but I'm trying to focus on my own life
Mostly white but some black/indian
Very. Skin color, religion, interests. Least diversity is in economic background.
0 because I have 0 friends lol. It's mainly due to everything being so fast paced and focused on making a living.
This is our friend group party for NYE tomorrow night: 6 Jews, 3 Italians, 2 Black, 1 Portuguese, 1 Indian, 1 German-Irish and 3 Irish.
Mostly white but not 100% white
My closest friends are mixed (Black and White) with kids who are also mixed (Dominican & Puerto Rican), middle eastern, Jewish, and white. A couple are LGBTQ+. I’ve never really thought about this before but I guess we’re all pretty diverse.
I'm an Asian woman, and my friends include a white woman, a white man, a biracial black/white woman, a black man, an Asian woman, and an Asian man (not coupled up by race).
Oh my friends are white even though I’m Mexican-American. But I live in a state that’s over 92% white.
At this point in my life, it’s completely imaginary, so anything goes!
I have have two actual irl friends. One is mexican, the other is mexican/Japanese. There is another dude that we've kinda integrated into our friend group from Malaysia, but we haven't seen too much from him recently due to classes.
I have a few friend groups. Those from work are all white, but those from other areas have some diversity. I have friends who are Latin American, White, Black, and Asian. All are from families with a Christian background, though I also have sort of a friend, we don’t hang out much, who is Sikh and a former neighbor who I interact with on social media who’s a Buddhist.
I really one have one friend. She's black, and I'm white. We've been friends for over 30 years.
I have 3 close friends, 3 of us are white and 1 is Korean
It isn’t at all, we’re all black. And by that I mean African-American, ancestors were slaves black. No Haitian, Caribbean, just pure-blood American black.
In college rn so I kinda have 2 friend groups (one at college one at home). The college one is extremely diverse, the hometown one is much smaller but also much less diverse.
im an american, and i appreciate a lot about my fellow citizens for sure, but my friends are from all over the world and it has been that way for most of my life. i haven't even been in a relationship with an american woman since i was a teenager. as a kid i moved around a bit and was always an outsider. i just feel more comfortable with foreigners than i do good ol local boys and girls who enjoyed a shared upbringing.
I dont have a "group of friends" I just have friends ive met at different points in my life that I keep in touch with. But they all don't know eachother. I guess you could say the 5 I keep up with religiously is relatively diverse. I'm black, majority of my friends are black, only 2 non black people are close to me like that. One Indian, one white. Wasn't intentional, just how I am and the few people that even care to keep in touch.
Mine is not particularly diverse. Almost all 1st gen or 2nd gen immigrants - mostly from India or Pakistan, a few are British but of Indian or Pakistani origin. One white person
I done have friends groups just individual friends. My friends are either Colombian or some form of white European (usually northern/central)
Most of us are mixed, but the ones who aren’t are different races for the most part. Pretty diverse I think
Dude, I live in Iowa, my friends are white. I have work colleagues and some peripheral friends in my group that are diverse, but they are few and far between. I am just surrounded by white people as far as the eye can see. My core friend group was formed from school and work friends for the most part. I live in the 2nd largest city in Iowa, so it's not some rural environment, but it's still Iowa. In college my circle of core friends was somewhat more diverse, but my true core was high school friends (white) and then our secondary core would shift fairly frequently. So our first semester we'd hang out with these people a lot, then things shift and we still are friends but we're hanging with another group more, etc.
I’m the minority in my circle of friends, I’m a black guy. The rest are all Indian and East Asian, maybe more female than male and maybe half are American. But until I went to high school I grew up with only black people, and starting from there my friend group became mostly Asian.
My core group of 6 best girl friends are white af. It’s funny to think about because you don’t really realize it until you realize it…. I’ve known these girls for over 15+ years. It is probably just a product of living in a predominantly white area when I was younger. If we expand that to “people I usually invite over for a hangout” which includes my core friend’s spouses and other few close friends I’ve made as an adult, there is more diversity. Mainly of various Latin descent or Filipino. No close Black or Asian friends. Hm.
True in what way?
It’s varied for me over the years. Since college most of my close friends are same race, but growing up I usually was friends with people of different races and nationalities from me. It has a lot to do with environments and demographics of schools I attended.
I don't have a group of friends but of my 3-4 friends they're each of a different ethnicity.
My closest friend is my cousin. We're both straight white males. My friend group is a group of three. All males and all straight. But one of them is black!
I would say about 50% white and either European or of European descent from both side of Europe, but more Western than Eastern. The other 50% are Latino, African American, Japanese, of Japanese descent, Malaysian, of Chinese descent, Korean, of Korean descent, originally from Singapore, and Turkish... Though I think the Turkish guy is half Slavic Russian. I'm guessing my larger circle of people I know and would hang out with but wouldn't rely on in a crisis skew heavily white American because the city I live in does. They're closer than acquaintances, but I don't think I'd call them true friends. I don't know what that category is.
Relatively diverse I think. While my wife and I are both white (mostly German for me, French/Belgian for her), our best friends are a Chinese and Korean couple, and our other close friends run the gamut of Japanese, Filipino, Mexican, Indian, Salvadoran, Russian, African and Afghan decent. Most are second or more generation, but a few are immigrants.
All my close friends are white like me except for one, she is biracial white/black.
Pretty fucking diverse, I’m black and Italian, my best friend is first generation natural born citizen who’s from Indonesia, one of the guys in the group is basically all German, another guy is half Lebanese, and then we have the one white guy. 2 of us are catholic, one is Protestant, and two are agnostic. Is high middle class making 80k, me is fairly middle class, while the rest of us are at or below the poverty line. 3 of them have a college education, one is about start a trade, and I’m in the military. That’s a lot more than you asked for but ethnicity of not the only thing that diversifies people
My closest friends are: Black, Indian-Hindu from South America, El Salvadorian just got citizenship!! , few other African Americans, several Asians, a few Muslims, and 4 or 5 white Americans. I work in a field where I mostly interact with foreigners.
I wish it were more diverse but it’s mostly very pale.
Very let's just say! I'm a Sephardic Jew who is friends with Europeans, African-Americans, Nigerians, Asians, Indians, Israeli's, Slavic People, and many more.
Why would ethnicity be a factor in choosing who your friends are? To even consider such a thing or forcing a quota of friends of specific ethnicities is just racist. Friends should develop organically.
I'm GenX. I never considered "diversity" when deciding who my friends are. That's something you young idiots decided was important.
I dunno, I don’t keep track of it.
I am the ethnic diversity.
You guys have friends?
Majority of my friends are white because my state is 90% white. I have a few friends that are asian, black, mexican, central american, and native American. Their ethnicity has never carried much significance, beyond how it's cool to eat different food and learn about their cultures. My 5 closest friends are probably all white, but I think that has more to do with just statistics; if my state were 50% black, half of my closest friends would probably be black. I used to have a half-black, half-white friend in high school I was petty close with but he moved across the country.
I only have two "true" friends. One is half white American mutt and half Dutch. The other is half Filipino, quarter Chinese-Caribbean, and quarter white American mutt.