I had some great conversations about friendships this week with a couple of my friends, and it inspired me to delve into this topic a bit deeper. Growing up in the northern English town of Barnsley, I was usually the only brown kid in a group of white people, so my friendships were mostly based on my unconscious assimilation to whiteness. I didn’t discuss my culture or my difference, and if it came up, it was usually an exoticized comment on their part which made me feel quite exposed. Despite this, however, I found it pretty easy to make friends and it was an element of my life that felt relatively smooth.
This is amazing!