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Most of my friends are international students?

I’m a sophomore in high school and I’ve been in the same school since I was in kindergarten. (Well, not exactly the same school but the same school association so it’s just different buildings but same people. This is a private school btw if it makes any difference.) Most of the people I grew up with formed tight knit groups. I was always a drifter during elementary and middle school hopping from one crowd to another. The school always gets a lot of international students (about 30 or so) but they usually stick together. This year I made friends with a bunch of Chinese and Korean exchange students (all of the international students are Chinese and Korean except for 2 from Spain). I really feel that they are more accepting than the students that have been here for years. The international students usually sit together in a big row of tables in the cafeteria and they invited me to sit with them.Now I’m sitting at that table for lunch everyday and I noticed that I’m the only American that sits at this table. Some of the American students started to notice this and began teasing me about it. They called me names like “Asian wannabe” and said “Do you hate your own race?” (Is this racism?) It really hurt my feelings. I don’t understand why they would say things like that to me.. Is it so weird that most of my friends are international? What should I do?

Non-Blacks, Do You Ever Get Negative Feedback For Listening To RHH?

Not just from Blacks, but also from folks within your own race.

I know there was once a popular air-personality out here, that said other Latinos used to hate on him, and say, “Why do you listen to that miate music” and things to that nature.

Also, I hear a lot of Blacks complain, because they feel that Blacks can never have anything to themselves. They don’t embrace the fact that others enjoy listening to Black music.

I take up for you guys because hip-hop has dominated the music scene for many years, and obviously it’s what you grew up on, I know Mexicans that can’t stand Spanish music.

Just curious if this has happened to you?
@ Chicago

That’s a different subject!
@ Avalon

I know plenty of White parents that will NOT let their kids listen to rap because it’s black music…they’re paranoid that if you listen to rap, that it leads to gang violence and drugs. Keep it real!!
@ sarahxox

There’s no need for WET. The reason why BET was created is because the representation (or lack thereof) of AA on television. And even with BET our representation is still not as comparable to Whites. Pay attention next time you watch television. You’ll see.

And we have the NAACP awards for the same reason, before Halle and Denzel won their Oscars a few years back, there wasn’t a black person that had received an Oscar in more than 40 years and that was for a supporting role. No matter how often I explain to people, the existence, of HBCU’s, BET, NAACP, Black National Anthem…they still don’t get it.

And if that upsets you, then you should be equally upset when you turn on the news and it’s a national crisis when a White woman comes up missing (hollaway, levy, peterson)…but c’mon there has to be a missing minority somewhere out there. That alone tells us that minorities are not as valued.
@ Everyone

I never give thumbs down…just want you to know that!
@ Pimp Croissants

I don’t think Avalon is going to like that!! I don’t mind White people listening, they can’t listen, but every other race besides black can??
@ BKS

Thanks for your input, and the guy you are referring to is Avalon!!

R&P! How did you get your taste in music?

A lot of people find their music on their own, but a lot don’t. Like kids that grow up in poor urban areas generally like rap and hip hop, just because all of their homies listen to it, with exceptions of course.

Some people are influenced by parents. A lot of young kids love the Hannah Montana and Jonas, but its my opinion that they just like it because everyone else does. Its really just peer pressure sometimes.

I didn’t listen to music until I was 13 or so. I was on a vacation in Europe, and I was using my dad’s iPod, and I played Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog. I had vaguely heard of them, and some songs on the radio, but after that, classic rock was my life.
I really appreciate the long answers. I like reading them, and I will read them all.