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[quote=Anonymous]OP. I’m Arab born and raised abroad. My husband is Arab American. His parents moves to the US in the late 70s. DH grew very isolated from non-immigrants. His parents just didn’t trust white people and wouldn’t allow him to go to their houses unless they came with him. He definitely wasn’t allowed to go to any sleepovers. My MIL was a homemaker and had 5 kids. FIL worked two jobs. They didn’t have much time to socialize so when they did they socialized with their own kind. Fast forward to today. Most of DH and I’s friends are Arabs or if not from a Muslim background (we aren’t conservative or anything). We are friendly with the neighbors and with the parents in our kids schools but we won’t go out of our way to be friends with them. I just feel so different and don’t have much in common. I find myself more comfortable with immigrants and expats even expats that are European or British.  That being said our kids do go on play dates and we reciprocate. We have a couple of friends from work that we are each close to but otherwise I don’t hang out with ppl from work. I don’t go to happy hours and I’m usually happy when the work week ends (super happy with covid now since I work from home).[/quote]

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