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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My eldest is in a predominantly white friend group and has been since middle school. Occasionally, there’s one other Black girl and a few Persian or Desi girls. She also only dates white guys. She has one close friend who is also AA and also has only dated white men. Some of it is where she was raised 5-13 and some of it is common interests that are expensive to pursue so they seldom attract AAs and Latinos. We’re from a generationally multiracial, multiethnic family so the dating part isn’t as big an issue as the friend group part has been. The friend group has been great for networking professionally. There are some drawbacks though. I have pointed out a few times that she gets upset when her friends miss ways she’s treated differently from them in exclusive settings. They are supportive when she points it out, but they are blind up until then.

Meanwhile, my younger kids don’t have any close friends who aren’t people of color. They have really tight circles of young folks from different cultural backgrounds but similar values. This has been great for keeping them focused academically, but not so great as they start to network for careers.[/quote]

"Networking" for careers is another word for corruption. Not a very strong foundation on which to build your social structure.[/quote]

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