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Ladies please forgive me forbudding into your forum.
A worked with a man from South Africa for about ten years that explained to me that his reason for not associating with African-Americans had really nothing to do with being lumped together with the negative stereotypes found here and overseas. Rather he was simply reacting simply to the fact that he did not understand African-American culture. Because it was so different from his own culture, it was hard for him to find a common cultural ground. He did get married to an African-American here in the States has has since told me they have worked through any cultural differences.
I have also worked with several Somalis here on student visas. Each student would classify himself as being arab since Arabic was their native language. One student went so far as pulling out his university papers to show me that he was "white" since he was from the Middle East (North Africa).
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