Do you have a diverse group of friends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our friends aren't terribly diverse...although we do have black friends.

Our kids' school is very diverse. In their class there are 3 white kids (them), 2 Asian kids, and 15 black kids.

Sorry, but I don't consider this to be diverse at all. It's majority black. Are there any Latino kids? Any Jewish kids? To me, diversity means people from several different backgrounds.

How does having 15 black kids make a school 'diverse'? It just means that there are alot of black kids. (not bad or good, just not diverse)

[Anonymous]

I didn't read all the posts, but OP, I agree with you that this area seems particularly segregated into white/black.

I'm not from this area, and I'm not white (not sure if that matters) but I'd say I have a reasonably diverse set of friends - Asian/Italian/Caucasian/Latino. Our daycare is pretty diverse also and I'm finding my neighborhood to be more diverse than I expected.

I can't say it matters much to me either way. We're an interracial couple so I figure DD gets enough diversity in our own family.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a group of friends. I have one friend. That's it.

[Anonymous]

You guys are lucky, sometimes I wish I had a group of friends. All I have are various social interactions with the parents in my son's class, very pleasant, somewhat diverse, but very superficial.

[Anonymous]

Racial, cultural, ethnic diversity sure. But ZERO socio-economic diversity. All have graduate degrees. Some have more $$$ than others, but it's mostly because of the career choices some of us have made (gov't vs big law, academia vs consulting firm), rather than as a result of missed opportunities.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

I am AA, and I have a diverse group of friends. But, for several of my white freinds, I am the only AA friend they have.

[Anonymous]

Somewhat diverse ethnically, but otherwise most of my friends are pretty well-to-do financially and have advanced degrees.

[Anonymous]

I have a lot of different kinds of friends, but I don't think the group is as diverse as my group of high school friends. When I went to college -- all of the black kids sat together, then the white kids, hispanics, etc. I think that is still true today at a lot of schools I've visitied.