I pretty much grew up in an all white area in the suburbs, went to a school where there were only 2 other black people that I can remember and had no relatives nearme of a similar ageso I've got white friends. Funnily enough I actually didn't have any real black friends until I was about 13 because when I went to secondary school I tried to be friends with most of the black kids who were still low innumbersbecause I wanted to have friends who were the same as me and I thought it was dysfunctional to only have white friends. I wanted to connect with them because I felt a strong urge that I wanted to be their friend and it would please my parents but initially as CeeCee said many of them they would say I was 'too white' (whatever that is) and I was ridiculed. It didn't help that I lived in Enfield whilst most of the black kids came from Tottenham or Edmonton as I couldn't get the bus with them after school where the real fun happened. It was with sheer irony that my first real black friendship was with a girl who had also been rejected for being 'too white!lol

Now I'm 30 I would say that I have a 50/50 mix of black, white and a couple of mixed race friends. Surprisingly though I've never had an Asian friend. I was friends with a Chinese girl for a while but the fact that her parents wouldn't speak English in my presence made me feel suspicious of them and I also had an Indian friend when I was very young but her older sister was a racist so I stopped hanging out with her because even at that young I wasn't going to tolerate racism. Since then I've never had an Asian friend and unfortunatley the ones I've come into contact with since have been sneeky andwere masters at lying.