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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking as a South Asian woman with mixed kids, it's because the white kids exclude the non-white kids (or rather, the white parents exclude the non-white kids from a very early age), so the non-white kids feel like they have to stick together. At least this was my experience as a child, and my kids' experience, too -- even though they are the children of a South Asian mom born and raised in the midwest and a white dad. I'm as American as apple pie, but the white moms have always still excluded me. Even after talking to me and realizing I'm not an immigrant (they're scared of immigrants).[/quote]

I am white and live in an area with many predominantly south Asian neighborhoods and it’s the reverse there. The few white kids in schools stick together. [/quote]

Same. In my neighborhood they didn’t want to come to block parties so they made their own south Asian block parties. They also don’t join the normal moms groups and make their own. I’ve actually never met such exclusionary people and I went to school in the Deep South. Blacks and whites mingled a whole lot more there than south Asians do here. Other Asian Americans are not like that. [/quote]

+3. Some South Asians in my neighborhood are exclusionary and sometimes outright hostile  towards non South Asians. 
Some. Not all. My son has had friends with friendly parents and they are usually Khatri.[/quote]

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