For example, if you're korean, did you go to a company that had alot of korean people there and meet them, or did you just befriend non-koreans?

Or did you know people from your college/high school and hung out with them if they were in your city?

i don't get ppls obsession with trying to only hang out with people that are the same race as them. if i tried that, i'd never, EVER have anyone to talk to.

in my case, i find it hard to make good friends in general. good-quality friends, that is.
and being overseas just makes it that much harder.

i'm in no position to hope or want that my friends be the same race as me, and personally, i've never really cared that much.

finally, i think that it is harder to make friends after university if you don't have some kind of network that you can work within (like people you know in your area, etc).

I don't hang out with my own race. Ok that came out wrong, I meant it as if race doesn't matter to me.

I got lucky...I was releasing a bunch of mixtapes by then. One of them got into the hands of a local GoGo dancer, who was also a fashion designer. Well, she hunted me down and asked me to Dj for her show, and it was at a club. So I did it, and the owner hired me as a Dj. That kicked off my Dj life, and boom....the whole meeting people thing just came outta nowhere.

I only have one Korean friend. With the exception of him, I've lived my entire life having befriended people of other races as it naturally occurred. In high school, 90% of my friends were black. I had a few from high school that were also Indian and I still hang out with one today. I used to have Caucasian friends (even in college), but due to lack of contact or betrayal, we're no longer each other's company. I don't care about race though. If the person is cool, the person is cool. That's not to say that I don't pick my friends carefully 'cause I do. I've grown to never trust anyone, but play it safe with those that I think are worth keeping.

Yeah seriously, I don't get this apparent obsession on Soompi with 'just hanging with your own race'. Maybe because I'm Australian but I just don't view people or my peers or whatever like that. If I get along with people then I get along with them. If I don't, then I don't. It has nothing to do with race. I've travelled quite a bit and I'm currently convinced that ethnicity has very little to do with personality. I've met people in Asia, Europe, Central and South America that I have more in common with than some Australians. People are people. Some you get along with, some you don't.
In terms of the after college thing, just find friends in the same places you do in college; through work, through activities; through mutual friends etc.

I think college opened doors to making friends of other races. However I never ever befriended a truly white friend except one or two, and I'm not even that close to them to be frank. I'm not sure where you'd put hispanics though. There are white hispanics and mixed hispanics, so, shrug.

It's important to befriend other races simply because in the real world there isn't just going to be asians around you. You might have to work with a black, hispanic or white people.

i'm having the same problem too.. for some reason, the friends i make in college and uni are more classmate/group project friends than they are let's-hang-out/go-to-the-movies friends, lol. those from the latter category are all my elementary and high school friends, is that normal? lol

i never pick out certain ppl to be friends with just based on their race, but it just so happens that the majority of my closest friends are asian. i think it's probably cuz we have more to talk about since they understand the culture.. well, that and we're all huge j/k/c-drama fanatics

College is the best and convenient way to make new friends as well as getting the exposure of being around people everyday. Take advantage of it, before you know it, you'll be graduating, and it'll be hard to make friends once you graduate other then at your job of course.

everyone always has friends of their own race..
i'd rather pick them on quality than on race.
i used to hang out with a lot of them..but those are just... 'hang out buddies'
but my real friends aren't chinese [unlike me] simply cuz they arent but still are the best friends u can wish for :]

I hang out with own my race called the HUMAN race...LOL
Color doesn't matter to me. I hangout with whomever I am comfortable with. Whomever I can be myself with.

I'm currently in my 3rd year of college but I find it hard to make life-long friends. I have lots of friends but most are just friends you'll meet at a point in your life. Or it could be I'm not very friendly, I don't know.

^LOL, I agree!!!

lol I can't even find people in my ethnicity here in NYC. But yeah I have lotsa friends in the asian race, but I have a lot that are outside the asian circle as well. lol so i think I'm doing fine.

I didn't hang out with the Asians at my university because I am not Asian enough. I have like...two Korean friends here in Korea, but overall, I hang out with foreigners the most since they can speak English.

-ginger

my friends are my friends since middle school/high school til now that we are on our last year of uni..honestly i barely have any friends who have the same ethnicity..maybe one that i can consider a really good friend...but most of my friends, we have different ethnicities..

I've been lucky. My family never moved and I was able to have some really close friends here, however I made additional friends from work and some although much less at school. I hang out with work friends, but not that often. As for college, I go to a commuter school so the friends I meet aren't very close. My friend that went to Cal Poly SLO is still very good friends with many of her friends she met while living on campus there.

About the "gravitating towards your ethnic background" deal, I can relate. During high school I had all sorts of friends. Indian, Black, Caucasian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese but then after I went into a phase when I started strongly identifying myself as a Korean and listened to Kpop for the first time and made all the Korean friends I could from church and the Korean Student Association club at school. Prior to all this I was a bit ashamed to be Korean or Asian. I believe this is a phase (which may vary) many people of different ethnic backgrounds go through if you have some sort of identity crisis as in my case.

havent graduated yet but i've been taking a break for a few years now.. i used to hang out w/mainly koreans bc we were close friends before i moved down here for school, but these days i've been spending a lot of time with coworkers

As soon as I finished college/university, I got a job at a software firm, there was an even balance of caucasian and asian people, I got a long fine with no problems.

Now I work at an engineering consultantcy firm and again there's an even balance of caucasian and asian people, and again I got a long fine with everyone.

It is more to do with your social interaction skills than the person's race.