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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I live in a part of London that has a very large Pakistani population but I have to say that everyone I hang out with there is white. However, I like to think that this has more to do with the cultural isolationism of so many of the Pakistani/muslim people I live around than any prejudice on my part. I'll talk to anyone but if they show no signs of wanting to talk to me I'm not going to kill myself trying to break the ice.
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This is a dangerous statement, mainly because you fail to point out that this 'cultural isolationism' is a two-way process. If you don't go out of your way to befriend 'them' (speaking as if they're some homogenous mass of 'others'), 'they' won't go out of their way to be friends with you. If they're muslim, there's a strong chance you won't meet them in the pub, but that's not to say 'they' won't go into the pub or you won't meet them elsewise. The worst thing one can do in such a situation is assume that any group of people you don't know are somehow different from you - bottom line is, they go for a shit sitting down, they piss, they sleep, they more than likely wank before they sleep, and the men will, like yourself and most men, be somewhat tragically obsessed with the behinds of whichever sex is their preference.