Many Americans have no friends of another race: poll

[Gerald]

(Reuters) - 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.

Symbolizing this western world....?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/08/us-usa-poll-race-idUSBRE97704320130808

http://www.reuters.com/article/interactive/idUSBRE97704320130808?view=small&type=domesticNews

^(Poll: Race in America)



Note: Thu Aug 8, 2013 10:05am EDT

[Takeda Shingen]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Fishing_1.jpg/300px-Fishing_1.jpg

Dawn in Sweden.

[Red October1984]

Not sure what to think of this.

I'm surrounded by friends of my race only because it's where I live. There's one person that's half of a different race. I've got nothing against them.

I've got friends around the country that are of a different race but I don't regularly see them.

Some of that statistic is probably just because of where people live. If you live in a backwoods Catholic farming community that isn't on the map, I doubt you'll see too many minorities. I'm not saying it isn't possible...but this statistic doesn't mean we're all racists. :hmmm:

[the_tyrant]

I love you guys on subsim, does that count as multiracial friends?

I live in a very diversified town, we seem to have every kind of person imaginable. Hell, this buddy of mine wants to turn Canada into an Islamic republic:O:

[Gerald]

Not sure what to think of this.

I'm surrounded by friends of my race only because it's where I live. There's one person that's half of a different race. I've got nothing against them.

I've got friends around the country that are of a different race but I don't regularly see them.

Some of that statistic is probably just because of where people live. If you live in a backwoods Catholic farming community that isn't on the map, I doubt you'll see too many minorities. I'm not saying it isn't possible...but this statistic doesn't mean we're all racists. :hmmm:We live in a multicultural society, and for me personally, I have good experiences with people from different countries, which has been rewarding especially related to my travels and in Sweden.

[Jimbuna]

http://nofilmschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/usual-suspects-line-up.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=the+usual+suspects&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=0IZ4-vxvfeco9M&tbnid=2bZ5lB8mTLTysM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnofilmschool.com%2F2013%2F07%2Fth e-usual-suspects-teaches-better-screenwriting%2F&ei=os8DUryoLKmK0AXD8ICYBQ&bvm=bv.50500085,d.ZG4&psig=AFQjCNGuxbUmnuxp5pjfPbtPL62EWyvtIg&ust=1376067863087648)

[Betonov]

Too much IFs in this poll to prove anything.

Close friends all people you hang out in general. is 40% of Americans just less traveled. Is mixed races included in the questionare and how does one interpret mixed races. Does someone choose not to hang out with someone different or just didn't met someone different that one might call him a friend.

Media is bored these days. I think someone should start another war

[Penguin]

Who cares about inter-racial relations?
Inter-Paranormal relationships is where it's at: http://www.ginalanier.com/paranormalRelationships.php :sunny:



Media is bored these days. I think someone should start another war

Splendid!
I'll tell my troops to attack the northern flank of those pesky Austrian neighbors tomorrow at 5am. Get your guys ready to attack their southern border!
Death to Österreich! :arrgh!:

[Betonov]

Will have to wait. The entire Slovene army is not deployment ready.

One has a broken leg and the other three are on vacation

[eddie]

:haha::haha:

[vienna]

Will have to wait. The entire Slovene army is not deployment ready.

One has a broken leg and the other three are on vacation


Not a problem; the French are patiently waiting to surrender to them at their convenience...


<O>

[AVGWarhawk]

Not sure the purpose of this study. What next? Social engineering?

[Jimbuna]

Not sure the purpose of this study. What next? Social engineering?

Best ask that of the OP and best of luck with that :)

[Gerald]

Best ask that of the OP and best of luck with that :) Nice conclusion Jim!!

[Jimbuna]

Nice conclusion Jim!!

Well come on you've done the cut and paste...wassup?

[Gerald]

Well come on you've done the cut and paste...wassup?It's history .... cut and paste now, it is handmade as it comes, if I post something which is not often, I am retired from it, the young have taken it over, with new inspiration joy,:yep:

[Jimbuna]

Thing is most of our country men and women are integrated into their own societies and people can become siloed...human nature I suppose.

[Skybird]

I remember some years ago there was some incident in German media, many years ago, where a white young man was accused of "racism" when he said that until then he happened to have never slept with a black woman. But he just had not met any black woman, and thus could not say that she would have interested or attracted him or not.

I have never had an Indian friend. Obviously I am Indiaphobic, if not racist?!

The West's moral compass has lost its needle, and wear and tear have corroded the direction markings so that often the one gets mistaken for the other. Today, if you do not agree to the demanded opinion, you are phobic to reason, or "racist".

In other words, you are either mentally ill, or a dangerous extremist. Forget what I said about that broken compass above. The whole damn thing went amiss a long time ago.

[Takeda Shingen]

And at the end of the day, the Swede is successful. His dinner in hand, he triumphantly poses for the camera.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120824042021-fish-phobia-story-top.jpg

All that remains now is notes for the next day; the bait with which to cast tomorrow.

[AVGWarhawk]

Have we integrated with our aquatic friends?

[Skybird]

Thing is most of our country men and women are integrated into their own societies and people can become siloed...human nature I suppose.

Genes tell truths, that'S why politcally correctness activists and social campaigners and radical feminists tend to completely ignore them. Like it is also ignored that intelligence gets tremendously influenced by genetic passing, and that the human IQ over the centuries and millenia probably has not grown, but shrunk, and that the more successful medicine becomes in allowing people with genetic diseases to live that before would have died, the more this helps to weaken the general human genepool and spreads the disease.

People prefer the likes of themselves. That is genetic, and in ancient times, it made sense, when every foreigner to the tribe was just a threat to one's own limited food resources, the only water hole, and mating rights. To get together with different ones, foreign ones, is cultural and sociological, and gets learned (or not, some ideologies even teach the unlearning of it). The genetic heritage roots much deeper in our nature, than culture. And Freud said, civilization is a very thin layer of paint on the surface of our abyss of animalistic heritage.

[HW3]

The poll was probably done in relation to this...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/HUD-diversity-new-rule/2013/08/07/id/519305

[Tchocky]

Like it is also ignored that intelligence gets tremendously influenced by genetic passing, and that the human IQ over the centuries and millenia probably has not grown, but shrunk, and that the more successful medicine becomes in allowing people with genetic diseases to live that before would have died, the more this helps to weaken the general human genepool and spreads the disease.

No comment.

[Oberon]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Fishing_1.jpg/300px-Fishing_1.jpg

Dawn in Sweden.

Just another day. :haha: :up:

And at the end of the day, the Swede is successful. His dinner in hand, he triumphantly poses for the camera.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120824042021-fish-phobia-story-top.jpg

All that remains now is notes for the next day; the bait with which to cast tomorrow.

:haha::haha::har: :yeah:

[August]

The West's moral compass has lost its needle, and wear and tear have corroded the direction markings so that often the one gets mistaken for the other. Today, if you do not agree to the demanded opinion, you are phobic to reason, or "racist".

In other words, you are either mentally ill, or a dangerous extremist. Forget what I said about that broken compass above. The whole damn thing went amiss a long time ago.

You act like this is a new thing, it's not. Those that disagree have always been labeled something derogative. Those names change but the intentions remain the same.

[Stealhead]

Have we integrated with our aquatic friends?

I tried making friends with a fish once but he kept forgetting my name every seven seconds after that a penguin ate him.

So I tried to make friends with the Penguin but he was German and had no sense of humor.

[Rockstar]

Quote:
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.



If Im not mistaken according to the investigators, the courts, the prosecutors, the defense, and the jury. Race was NOT a factor in this serious of unfortunate events leading to the death of the late Mr. Martin. Race wasn't an issue until it was made a issue by the most self-righteous reverends, poverty pimps, politicians, and media and the local subsim fisherman

[Wolferz]

Tis better to be color blind and see only other human beings.
If they bleed a different color, then I might be a tad prejudiced. But, probably not.... "Welcome to Earth.":salute:

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.:up:

[Platapus]

I guess it would depend on how one defines friend.

I suppose I am one of those who only have friends my own race... Perhaps because I have very few friends as I place a much higher definition on friend than some others do. I have many more acquaintances than I have friends.

But I know other people who consider everyone they know as a best friend.

To each his own. But it does make collecting these statistics a bit more problematic.

[Skybird]

No comment.

The argument is simple. In past times, life was more in danger and technical options and comfortable safeties were few. People not outsmarting their environment and it's risks and unable to maximize the options it provided them with, did not survive, did not reproduce. The easier our lives has become, the lazier we can live, the less caring for our survival we must be since culture an social stuff replaces survival of they fittest.

I tell you if you would meet some educated guy from let's say the Roan or Ancient Greek era, his (standardized against the time context) education would outclass yours, and he even more probably would outwit you.

Before you keep on giggling, do some research yourself, and you will find that this is a theory that currently is hotly debated in science, since several years. Originally started as a provocation against the academic schematic thinking, it has won a self-dynamic and earned it solid support.

And just in case you are about generally opposing the genetic heritage of intelligence, against science has left you behind then already. There is a very huge consensus since decades that genes set the framing conditions inside which the final intelligence of an individual forms up. I know that socially oh so worried people are hating to be told this, but reality does not bend just because ideology claims it should.

[Skybird]

You act like this is a new thing, it's not. Those that disagree have always been labeled something derogative. Those names change but the intentions remain the same.

Yes, but it has won a new quality in the public's endless debates with itself. More and more things slide so that when you call a politically incorrect opinion "insane", it is meant as that for real, the meaning of a mental disease from which society must cure the subject. That may be part of the explanation why correctness and its activists have become more and more intolerant will a surprising amount of totalitarianism and force to enforce their "therapies" and "cures" (you should listen in to some of the suggestions coming from the Green and the left in Germany).

It's no longer just rhetorically meant, but often is implied or meant as being fact. Disagreeing with the wanted opinion becomes evidence for your mental problems, your "insanity". Education camps come next. That they want a legal obligation that parents have to expose their children to Kindergardens already at the age of 1 year although medical and psychological research shows that this means so much stress and fear that it is damaging to the children's health (immune system defects) and personality development (concentration deficits, risen risks for later neurosis and personality disorders), must be seen in this context. Of course the idea is most loved by the left and Green: the individual means nothing, it's dissolving in the collective means everything.

[Simmy]

I would think the same truth could be said about most of the people/countries in the world. Who do they think the Taliban hang out with?:)

[Tribesman]

I tell you if you would meet some educated guy from let's say the Roan or Ancient Greek era, his (standardized against the time context) education would outclass yours, and he even more probably would outwit you.

Whereas an educated modern person like Stephen Hawking would wheel circles round the intelligent greek or roman, as long as the dumb eugenics fans don't get their dream of restarting the T4 program to "improve" the breeding stock:doh:

Before you keep on giggling, do some research yourself, and you will find that this is a theory that currently is hotly debated in science, since several years.
Indeed......Erbkrank, Das Erbe, Obfer der verangenheit, Was du erebst, Sunden der vater, Alles lieben ist kampf......plenty of material on the theory.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Is this a Double Blind "Bias" research poll?:doh:

[Red October1984]

Who do they think the Taliban hang out with?:)

The same people who play violent video games and listen to rap music.

[Cybermat47]

The same people who play violent video games and listen to rap music.

'Scuse me.





Quick, Achmed! We've been discovered!



I don't listen rap music. FTW.

[August]

Yes, but it has won a new quality in the public's endless debates with itself. More and more things slide so that when you call a politically incorrect opinion "insane", it is meant as that for real, the meaning of a mental disease from which society must cure the subject. That may be part of the explanation why correctness and its activists have become more and more intolerant will a surprising amount of totalitarianism and force to enforce their "therapies" and "cures" (you should listen in to some of the suggestions coming from the Green and the left in Germany).

It's no longer just rhetorically meant, but often is implied or meant as being fact. Disagreeing with the wanted opinion becomes evidence for your mental problems, your "insanity". Education camps come next. That they want a legal obligation that parents have to expose their children to Kindergardens already at the age of 1 year although medical and psychological research shows that this means so much stress and fear that it is damaging to the children's health (immune system defects) and personality development (concentration deficits, risen risks for later neurosis and personality disorders), must be seen in this context. Of course the idea is most loved by the left and Green: the individual means nothing, it's dissolving in the collective means everything.

Again it's nothing new in human or even western history. The players and the topics change but the purposes and intentions do not. Extend ones control over the population and outlaw or marginalize the opposition. Any reason will do. In an earlier time they would just have declared them heretics or counter-revolutionaries.

[CaptainMattJ.]

What does this have to do with anything? What, im mandated to have a friend of a different race now? (I have MANY friends of a different race, by the way) Because people who dont have friends of another race are clearly segregating themselves from other races? And they reach this conclusion based off of the answers of 4170 americans? The surveys they do sometimes are so pointless i swear. Yellow Journalism at its finest.

[Red October1984]

'Scuse me.





Quick, Achmed! We've been discovered!



I don't listen rap music. FTW.

:rotfl2: :rotfl2:

I personally think that violent video games have no effects on a properly educated person.

Now the term "Properly Educated" is debatable.

I just don't think they cause many problems.

I don't listen to much rap...if anything, a little bit of hip hop...but for me, Country and Rock FTW.

[Armistead]

A mixed race of bi-sexual atheist is our only hope of civility?

My best friend is my dog:yeah:

but he is a mixed breed.

[Skybird]

Again it's nothing new in human or even western history. The players and the topics change but the purposes and intentions do not. Extend ones control over the population and outlaw or marginalize the opposition. Any reason will do. In an earlier time they would just have declared them heretics or counter-revolutionaries.
Sure, but in the West we have had kind of an intermezzo of creative optimism and civil rights, liberal spirit and founding entrepreneurs, humanistic philosophy, educated burgeois classes and a focussing on justice, ration and reason. Much of that is coming to an end, or is in the phase of terminal decline, it seems to me.

[Jimbuna]

Who do they think the Taliban hang out with?:)

The Turbinators :hmm2:

[AVGWarhawk]

My best friend is my dog:yeah:

but he is a mixed breed.

Aren't we all? :haha:

[Gerald]

Mankind's early development occurred in Africa, if I remember correctly :)

[CaptainHaplo]

Many years ago, America was referred to as "The Great Melting Pot" - meaning different ethnicities and cultures could come together in one large society. Unfortunately, many are unwilling to let their culture combine with any other, else it be "diluted".

I am half German, part Irish and Scottish, with a bit of Cherokee and African in me. I look "Caucasian". I am not a "German-Irish-Scot" American - I am an American. Hyphenation and holding onto distinct racial and ethnic culture out of fear - as many in society do, only continues to reinforce racial and ethnic stereotypes - creating chasms that need to be bridged.

I get along with people of many ethnicities - and I can't stand a number of other people from those same ethnicities. Why? Because some people don't see everything as some sort of challenge to their "culture". Others do - and those that do need to grow the heck up and get a clue.

Societal segregation exists not only due to economic and educational differences, it also exists because many people of "minorities" choose for it to do so out of a misguided concept that if they are not "ethnic" enough, they will lose their "culture".

[Sailor Steve]

I won't even try to speak for anyone else, let alone "many". I've had friends from all walks of life and all races, and one of only two people I would describe as a "close friend" is of a different color than mine. I didn't say "race" because I don't hold with the splitting of the human race into sub-categories, other than to use as a descriptive term