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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's okay. Don't make him ashamed for who he is.[/quote]

I’m not but I wonder if I am doing his a disservice not encouraging at least one thing that is a little different? Literally every activity we go to it’s only other Indian and Chinese boys. Very few girls and very few kids of other races. [/quote]

Your child’s soccer team is only Indian and Chinese boys? And all the kids I know who do youth orchestra are white and some are girls.  [/quote]

Actually that’s true soccer has some non-Asians, but it’s the only activity that does. Youth orchestra he will be joining at the younger level and it looks like all Asian minorities, high school levels have a larger mix. But yes the math, chess, and music activities we go to now are 90%+ Indian/Asian. I don’t even understand it because our district is majority white so I think lots of kids are coming from neighboring towns to take math and chess. I have never seen a classmate from school at any of these. That is part why I wonder if I should put him in something else to be with friends and peers. [/quote]

This is because schools don't start strings until 4th grade where we are. When you get into higher levels,  it's heavily Asian again.[/quote]

My non-Asian stereotype kids are not in activities with friends or peers. One of them is seriously into dance and ice skating. Only a few kids from her school dance and even fewer ice skate. Of the one who ice skate, the girls aren’t close friends.

I wouldn’t worry too much about being in activities with school friends.

If you wanted diverse activities, dungeons and dragons is pretty diverse. Many kids who like activities similar to your kids like it. Some writing centers offer dungeons and dragons clubs.[/quote]

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