The Benefits Of Interracial Friendships

When two teens value similar things and are able to bond over things, the teens are more likely to have a better relationship, Finding friends that teens like and share similar values with is not easy too. This is the stage where teens start to figure out what they want and who they want to have a relationship with, which is why teens spend a lot of time handling relationships. Another reason why teens spend most of their time learning how to handle relationships is because all teens are at least a little racist. In the movie “Remember the Titans.” Gerry’s girlfriend Emma says “look at them Gerry, They hate us’ (Emma is referring to the black people and in that scene when Emma says that the white people are screaming and being violent). Emma says that the black people do not like the white people, but the black people never said that. Emma is the one who actually does not like the black people, but she does not say that because she does not want to look like the villain in the situation. It is the white people who were being violent and making a lot of noise in front of T.C Williams’ high

Has anyone wondered how can a person, who differ in appearance than other people, become friends? If there’s a connection between them, it doesn’t prevent each other from becoming friends though they differ in appearance. In the movies “Finding Forester” William Forester is a white, middle-aged former writer and write several books. Jamal Wallace is a black basketball player and a teenage student, who is an expert in writing. At first, Jamal encounters William at William’s apartment, and they have an associate in writing. Although William and Jamal are writers, their characteristics are different in their personalities and living situations. (87-B)

People of the same social class tend to be friends. People of the same level of attractiveness tend to be drawn to each other. Athletes that play the same sports flock to each other. I feel as if often times, we fall ignorant to the real world. Sometimes, I think we close our minds off to possibilities and opportunities just because we don't expand our network and step out of our comfort zones. Everyone has a story. Growing up and going to a private Catholic school, I’ve seen this happen my whole life. The rich kids are friends with the rich kids, and everybody else just kind of coexists. My mom always told me to not be friends with someone just because you share similarities. I have carried this value on through life. By closing yourself off to one group people, you limit your exposure to different experiences. Through meeting other people and people that are different from yourself, you can expand your

I have always thought and been taught that racism was a form of ignorance; people used stereotypes are the easy route, instead of looking at the individual outside of the whole. But Kelley’s thoughts on the topic rang very true to me—“Racism is knowledge…is learned behavior…” (7). When we are babies, we don’t notice or care if someone is of a different race, socioeconomic standing, sexuality; we just see them as people. It’s through repeated actions that we learn what separates us from the “other”. As a young child, my neighbor was my best friend. We played every day until I moved, but our families still kept in touch. It was until probably the 3rd or 4th grade that I realized he wasn’t like me, he had Down syndrome. Of course, that didn’t make a difference to me then or now, but I find it to be a striking example in my own life that as a young person, I was unable to see anything different about us, to me we were the same, we were

As humans we are relational beings. Relationships foster our social life. Outside of the family of origin school age children often begin to foster relationships in school. I grew up in a very diverse town. My neighborhood and the school district resembled the United Nations with many ethnicities, dialects and races represented but yet there were two cafeterias in the high school. Not officially named but known as the white and black cafeterias.

As a result, we as a society and parents need to teach our kids equal values and to like yourself no matter someone’s skin color, instead of judging yourself of society’s stereotypical

I remember playing with dolls with my black friend and she took the white doll instead of the black doll. Racism thrives even in the black community. It is the reason why humans are taught that white is “pure” and black is “evil” and I could not even imagine how that would make me feel if I were a black person. My mother mentioned to me once that since I was little, I always had a variety of multi-cultural friends who all have broadened my perspective on life. My best friend who is black told me once how when she was growing up, her father made her research a genocide in Africa and made her learn about African culture although she is Haitian.

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In the article, The Importance in Friendship, by Jane Collingwood, friendship is when, “close friends like each other for who they are, not for what they deliver”. They also have friends in school that discriminate others for their background statues and their cliques. Their social groups have power over who they can hang out with and the ones who they can talk too. Friendships should not have to be about discriminating the people around you. Friendship is about love, understanding, unity, and

An interracial relationship is a connection between persons of different races; this connection can be purely platonic or involve sexual relations. It is important not to confuse interracial dating with interracial marriage because there are distinct differences, implications, and data. For example, more individuals are likely to interdate than to intermarry because dating is less of a commitment (Yancey). The earliest examples of intermixing occurred during slavery when White plantation owners forced themselves onto Black female slaves (Foeman). Whether by law or by custom, there was a time when interracial interactions were strictly prohibited; legal restrictions and regulations existed as early as 1662. These prohibitions reinforced

This anthology includes three books of the author relating to interracial relations. The works belong to the genre of erotic romance and noir novel.

I have always surrounded myself with different types of people. Whether you’re black, white, Asian, or Indian… a jock, prepster, nerd, band geek, or normal…. Republican, democrat, tea party, or green party… I do not attack these differences like some might, but I embrace them. If I had gone through life choosing to only associate myself with people of my race, socioeconomic status, religion, party affiliation and so forth I would not be as open-minded and as accepting as I am today. Whitley, Ryan, Lauren, Maura, Cullen, and countless others: we would not be friends if I judged them based on our differences. The only way we can begin to understand one another is if we embrace diversity and ignore the false ideas of how different people are supposed to

The results illustrated how adolescents communicate with one another, and how their friendships can influence their behavior. For instance, adolescents are more likely to communicate openly and engage in the same activities with close friends. More simply, the closer the friendship or bond, adolescent are willing to maintain their closeness by communicating openly and share similar experiences. The authors did well in describing and analyzing their results, because they showed how a close relationship could affect adolescents. For instance, strong relationships could affect who adolescents date, what activities they will engage in, what experiences they will share. More simply, strong relationship made adolescents more open minded and more willing to communicate openly. However, the weakness of the article included how African American adolescents were above or below other racial groups, when pertaining to friendships and sexual behavior. Illustrating where other racial groups stood with friendship and sexual behavior could have made the article stronger. An interpretation that the authors overstated how adolescents depend on their friends’ experience and opinion when making their own decisions about relationship. More simply, adolescents will form their own opinion based off their friends’ experiences or feelings. Weakness in the article had an effect on the interpretation of the results and conclusion because it seemed

The article I chose to summarize is “Contact theory extended: The effects of prior racial contact on the current social ties.” The purpose of the study is that the psychologists want to address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. As well as how prior social contact with interracial individuals at a young age, leads to those same individuals continuing to have friends that are also interracial during adulthood. They also look further into behaviors and attitudes and how they link to the contact theory.

In the multi cultural society that we live in today, relationships from all different cultures are welcomed. The mixing of races has been going on for hunherds of years and dates back to the unfortunate years of slavery. Where the mixing of white and black was a taboo, but still carried out by the white slave masters on their black maids/ slaves.