Posted on 08/10/2013 10:14:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
About 40 percent of white Americans and about 25 percent of non-white Americans are surrounded exclusively by friends of their own race, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The figures highlight how segregated the United States remains in the wake of a debate on race sparked by last month’s acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of unarmed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. President Barack Obama weighed in after the verdict, calling for Americans to do some “soul searching” on whether they harbor racial prejudice.
There are regions and groups where mixing with people of other races is more common, especially in the Hispanic community where only a tenth do not have friends of a different race. About half of Hispanics who have a spouse or partner are in a relationship with non-Hispanics, compared to one tenth of whites and blacks in relationships. …
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Hell I have no friends period...
Depends on if you count ‘serial monogamy’ as a variant of polygamy.
You may have a friend that has been divorced and remarried.
I call such people ‘slow acting polygamists’.
Let’s see, blacks are 13% of the population and are largely concentrated in cities. Asians are concentrated on the coasts. So, given distribution patterns and the fact that there isn’t yet a national friendship diversity register, it’s possible that many Caucasians will know only other Caucasians. That’s hardly racism. That’s demographics.
Cranberry sauce.
...every American except George Zimmerman who seemed to have a rainbow collection of friends. Oh, the irony.
This poll is completely bogus. From watching TV, I know that ALL white folks have black friends ... LOTS of them.
Somehow this will gravitate toward the intolerance of white America. I’m sick of these articles that hide behind the truth
Whites are too white, Blacks are too black, Indians are too red, i don,t like any of them.
Actually if you look you’ll see that the left is redefining a bunch of Hispanics as white.
They’ve already done this with Asians to a large extent
People hang with those who speak their language. It goes back to the time of the Tower of Babel:
1.Genesis 11:1
[ The Tower of Babel ] Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2.Genesis 11:9
That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
They believe that everyone needs to have at least one black friend with black rimmed glasses and Cheetos shaped afro hair. They just need to figure out how to force it on us so we match up with the tv commercials.
I’m betting that women have more female friends and men have more male friends. I’m betting doctors have more medical friends than landscaping friends. I’m betting wealthy people have more rich friends than poor friends. Birds of a feather.
> Pretty much. You live in Oklahoma long enough and you become convinced that everyone in the state averages three teeth, and can’t count to eleven without taking off his/her/it’s shoes.
And those are the college grads...
Durnit. Ya made me spit up ma coffee...lol
Why should I have any creepy a$$ cracker friends?
Should we be talking about this?
Nonsense. Pure bullshit. In THIS country, I would find it IMPOSSIBLE not to have friends of EVERY ethnic persuasion.
This doesn’t even take into account the segregationists who still vote Democrat from beyond the grave in every election. Thanks Olog-hai.
Never have so few held such power. You’d think they were 75% instead of about 13%.
My BFF is black and we’re friends because we have common values and beliefs.
What do they expect - how would the different races communicate? I don’t understand ebonics or street slang and they don’t understand my “cursiveness”.
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