What different races and nationalities of people have you had the pleasure of being around throughout your life?

Note that i said 'pleasure'. This is not a thread to moan about or attack anyone. This is a thread to help eachother understand more about people with different cultures. It can be a touchy subject, so lets just keep it positive.

What are some good things you have learnt about(or from) these groups of people?

Growing up, my aunt & uncle's house was the gathering place for their very large and very diverse group of friends. Their debate nights were incredible, and I was allowed to sit on the stairs and observe. I learned to judge people by their character and their actions, not the color of their skin or the nation of their birth. I learned to laugh at myself and not take things so seriously, and I learned that an open mind can introduce you to a world of possibilities.

Native Americans, north and south, Mexicans, Vietnamese (favorite foods from these people), French, Tahitians, Russians, Japanese, UK, Canadians, Norge, Germans, India Indians, all Middle-easterners, Italians and Yoopers......

East-Indians,- ex girlfriend
Eastern European Gypsy - ex girlfriend
Brazilians, Mexicans,Polish,African American,Puerto Rican -working with at jobs

Germans - married into family
French,- married into family
Romanian, Russian, Irish, Swiss, Slovakian - friends
British - Military (trained together)
Americans - they are all over the place, can't get away from them

Hungarian - that's me.

I grew up in a military family, so I have been around a lot of diverse people. So I accepted many cultures. I even had the pleasure of meeting my room mate's family from Germany. It was loads of fun! I gained weight from them coming down too. If I didn't grow up around culture, I would have been a boring person...in some kind of way.

I live in N.Y.

I was bought up in a London Borough which has the largest population of Jewish people in the UK. Although i am still yet to meet an Orthodox Jew who takes his religion very seriously. Most of the people i know are less about the religion and more about the culture. But they really are into their culture, family life and traditions. One of the best weddings i ever went to was a Jewish one, they really know how to party and can let their hair down when they allow themselves to.

I have seen little truth to the stereotype that Jewish people are tight-fisted. My experience has been that they are as generous as the next group of people.

I was born & raised in the melting pot state of Florida...so pretty much all of 'em...

I have f**ked everything except Inuit (working on it)....and Mongol....just give me time....does Tibetan count?

Sadly, I grew up in Idaho and here in Spokane. I thought black people were only on TV when I was a kid before I moved to Spokane. I found out as a teenager that my beloved town had run the ONLY doctor out because he was black.

Every memory I have of Genesee is now tainted by that knowledge.

I haven't had much exposure, except my Jewish friend Josie. The stories she tells are awesome!

I've been around people from all over the world. Ireland, Austrailia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Germany. I'm sure I'm forgetting some. I've learned something from all of them. I am fascinated to learn about other cultures, their histories and influences on the world.

My cousins' grandparents on their father's side were Hispanic.

One of the best memories I have from being a kid ( and there aren't very many ) is going over to the grandparents' house...and as soon as we got there, grandma would start making fresh tortillas.

Every time we went there, the tortillas went very long in coming.

I don't know why...but I have tried and tried and I can't seem to make them to save my life.

Kudos to you Dan99! Fantastic thread!

My Mom raised me by saying we're all different colors on the outside, "but God made us all the same color on the inside, we all bleed the same color, our hearts are the same color, in God's eyes we are all the same." My Daddy; however, was raised by a very prejudiced man and was quite prejudiced himself. If it had not been for my mom I would be very biased. Don't think I ever would have been racist...but had she not been in my life (as well as my older sisters) then I would be a very different person.

I've come in contact with every nationality you could possibly think of, known to man. With the exception of rare tribesmen, and others as such. I have many Jewish friends (not Israeli, but Jewish heritage) also black friends, American Indians, as well as I've met Indian from India, hispanic, orientals, French, German, English, Australian, Canadian, Alaskan, Hawaiian and yes...even a few from Alabama! LMAO!!!

I really wish we ALL could and would work on making racism and treating others with indifference something that ceases to exist in our vocabulary! Man! That would be SO awesome! Don't think I'll see it in this lifetime, though. :(

Thanks again!

Haha yeah same here, being from London there are few races of people i havent had some kind of dealings with in one way or another.

Where i work, where i also lived for five years, white British people are a minority. I would say its predominantly Asian(India/middle East rather than Oriental), and closely followed by black people. People consider it a rough area, but in all the time i have lived here i have seen very little proof of that. Granted, its quite scary to walk down certain places late at night, but still, i have (almost) always been left alone.

I grew up in north western MN. Most of it farm land and small towns. Most of it was Caucasian people who were from Skanda-hovian country...Norway and Sweden...the rest were Germans and Polish for the most part...

Yet, I was always aware that the color of a persons skin really did not define people for me. When I was raising my children in North Eastern ND...I wanted them to be exposed to many different types of people, so I had them work at the National Parks in the summer time when there were old enough...they were exposed to people from all over the world!!

I really thought it was more about the culture than any race...

I worked with several different NDN tribes over the years and it was about the culture of the tribe...

I have several friends who are Jewish, all of them Reform Jews, so they are much different in their everyday culture than an Orthodox.

Regardless of the color of skin, I think the cultural differences are the areas that I treasure about people...that is always a great learning opportunity for me...

Last summer, I had people from 5 countries at my home...there were some things that everyone seemed to connect on...and then things like...Rice Krispie bars were differences...

I'm scared of Reptoid Draconians

I am Texan first
American second
Polish third....

Got sooo many friends from every continent except for antartica...

I sat here and thought about it...

North America, central and south america, Aussies, Brits, Irish, Eurotrash, africaaners, Asians, South Seas islanders......

I know a lot of really cool mo fo's.

We are fortunate to have the communications that we have readily available.

All of them. I have learned that I can take good from all cultures, and beliefs.

I know that they all feel really similar when the lights go out.

'nuff said. I hear you.