Research about interracial friendships?

[>:^|]

Some time back, I read some research about Whites who claimed Black friends but when the Black "friends" were interviewed, they said they were only acquaintances. I could swear somebody mentioned this recently on yw, but couldn't find the post.

Anyway, can anybody give me a lead to a reference? Thanks.

And anybody here in interracial friendships? Is one of your best friends White? :wink:

[rice cracker]

Haha, since you put it that way, I feel funny saying one of my good friends is black :redface: The best friend is a hapa.

[nonamerasian]

I've been the "Black friend" thrown around in arguments in hs.

Those moments left me dumbfounded. Like, sitting next to me in Social Studies doesn't make me your friend. Especially if we've only known each other for two school weeks, lol.

[rice cracker]

I've been the "Black friend" thrown around in arguments in hs.

Those moments left me dumbfounded. Like, sitting next to me in Social Studies doesn't make me your friend. Especially if we've only known each other for two school weeks, lol.

Oh, darn, I was referencing you in post #2 :tongue:

[Kuchana]

I've had several best friends: white, black, indian/nepalese, and chinese.

[Mo'Taka]

People use that "I have a ___ friend" arguement only to justify their racist views. It reminded me when I was in Japan for duty and had some conflict with some white dude. A mother of one of them told me not to take it personally and that "we don't hate orientals, our sons marry them."

[missmeow]

most of my friends are non-white and yes, they are friends.

[hooligan]

my best friend is vietnamese and i'm chinese. i had a "white" best friend in high school. : P

[Emperor_Mike]

My best friend is Russian. My best acquaintance-bordering-on-being-a-friend is Turkish. Among the people I call friends in Canada most are Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese. I have white friends too and East Indian ones. I know one black acquaintance from Malawi. He's very reserved and doesn't seem to enjoy being social.

[Hiroshi2]

I've been the "Black friend" thrown around in arguments in hs.

Those moments left me dumbfounded. Like, sitting next to me in Social Studies doesn't make me your friend. Especially if we've only known each other for two school weeks, lol.




It doesn't? :frown:





LOL ok seriously one of my best friends does happen to be white. Well, he's white but he's one of those white dudes that people will say "acts black", dresses like it, sorta talks like it, dates black girls, etc.



My other best friend is black.

[>:^|]

Hey! I don't need any of you to prove to me you're not racist! :biggrin:

But don't any of you google-meisters have a source for me? :confused:

[hooligan]

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~tsailab/PDF/Culture%20Influences%20on%20Emotional%20Responding .pdf

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~tsailab/PDF/Cultural%20orientation%20and%20racial%20discrimina tion.pdf

for chinese americans. the second link is pretty interesting. especially the cross-racial coherence that they find.

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~tsailab/pubs.html

here's the link where i found the studies at! good luck face. : )

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1403972

here's an abstract. i don't have access to the paper.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=3665651

another abstract.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12872548&itool=iconabstr

abstract for preschool kids.

[>:^|]

^ Thanks, hooligan! That second article is really interesting. One of the first times that I have seen generation taken into account in studies of Asian Americans.

Still looking for the other research.

[kuilong]

Somewhat apropos: http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/ :P

[TB4000]

It doesn't? :frown:





LOL ok seriously one of my best friends does happen to be white. Well, he's white but he's one of those white dudes that people will say "acts black", dresses like it, sorta talks like it, dates black girls, etc.



My other best friend is black.
Yeah, those are probably the only white people that some black people will claim are truly their friends, the ones that act more or less ghetto, chill in the black areas, etc. Most of my friends are black, and the ones that are mexican, asian, or white, though we talk and chill on occasion, are pretty much just acquaintances to me, not best friends. Don't know why for certain, I just never felt that close enough to hang with them like that.

[missmeow]

You think it's partly because of their willingness or unwillingness to hang in black areas or ease of being the only non-black person in the room? Sometimes I wonder because I hardly act "ghettofabulous" but I've had black friends comment that they were surprised that I would actually come over to their place to chill, you know?

[Hiroshi2]

You think it's partly because of their willingness or unwillingness to hang in black areas or ease of being the only non-black person in the room? Sometimes I wonder because I hardly act "ghettofabulous" but I've had black friends comment that they were surprised that I would actually come over to their place to chill, you know?




Well I dunno I hate to be really stereotypical when I say this but a lot of times black people are just more cool and laid-back about that kind of thing than other ethnicities. I've heard quite a few non-black people say this, so it's not just me saying it cause I'm black or whatever.

This white friend of mine though.................he acts black, but at the same time, he still holds onto his whiteness, lol. He played bass guitar in a rock band and lives in a big house on a hill and everything and his parents are cool but they're the whitest people I know (I mess with sometimes and tell him his dad looks like the dude off of "Leave it to Beaver"). But at the same time, he listens to a lot of rap music, wears urban clothing, drives a Caprice, basically only talks to black girls, etc. I dunno.

[tapestrybabe]

hey just curious...
maybe kinda off topic...
but when it comes to interracial friendships...
how does your friendships...
the ppl you associate with...
compare with your parents??

like when you think of your parents...
how diverse are their friends...
compared to your friends...

[nonamerasian]

My mom's friends are very diverse.

My dad's are probably all minorities. Those who I think are his closest are all Caribbean Black men.

My associates are more like my mom's. She probably has more variety than me, though.

[Hiroshi2]

hey just curious...
maybe kinda off topic...
but when it comes to interracial friendships...
how does your friendships...
the ppl you associate with...
compare with your parents??

like when you think of your parents...
how diverse are their friends...
compared to your friends...




I think I'm like my mom, who has a lot of black and asian friends and a few white friends.


I have a lot of black and a few white friends (all of them went to or go to inner-city, minority public schools) and no asian friends, quite frankly.


My dad has a lot of friends, some black, some white (mostly the redneck types who work out at the steel mill where he works).

[tapestrybabe]

my parents...
and oh yeah, they're white...
they dont really have any asian friends...
i mean, they know of asian ppl...
they even know other koreans...
but they're more like associates...
ppl who are like co workers and so forth...
but they're not like really close friends with them
in whom they actually invite over to the house
and what not...

kinda the opposite from me...
actually, the racial make up of my
circle of friends has changed a lot...
when i was a kid... they were white, black, etc...
kinda diverse... but i never associated
with other asians tho...
until like the past several recent years...
and currently, i dont think i really
have that much a diverse interracial
circle of friends as i use to when i was younger...
since well, most of them are
currently asian... and a large % of that
are korean...