This guy has the best reasoning of the bunch. I'm asian and I admit that I hang out with mostly asians? Why? Maybe because when they call my house and my mother picks up the phone, they can kind of understand what the hell she is saying. Maybe because in Jr. HS when we used to get in trouble for not getting all A's they can sympathize. Maybe they are the only one's who can take the smell of ethnic Asian food. Who knows? It's just natural for those of certain asian backgrounds to gravitate towards each other. Does that mean that you shouldn't get to know people of other ethnicities and backgrounds? Of course not. I would venture to say that more times than not, a "white" person has mostly white friends. That goes for blacks, hispanics etc. Of course people are going to chime and say, "Well i'm white and all my friends are hispanic." Or Black, or Asian, etc. That's probably because there is/was a bigger than normal concentration of that ethnicity in the area you grew up in. Listen - why do Asians come and make their own towns? Yeah it's easy for some of you morons to say, "Well if I went to China I would learn chinese..." blah blah. Yeah you would go to China, try to learn Chinese, get frustrated over the fact you can't, starve and eventually leave. OR You would find a McDonalds or other nonwestern restaurant where they understand some English and start going there regularly. Lots of Asians can't speak a lick of English when they come here. They want to be in an area where they can buy groceries without having a 20 minute dialogue trying to ask where the hell the sugar is located. Also generally there is easy access to ethnic grocery stores, video stores, clothes stores, etc. I don't know, I guess not everyone likes to travel across town to by some ethnic groceries. Yeah this is long, sorry bout that. But in summary, it's absolutely true that asians hang out in cliques, but there are lots of legitimate and understandable reasons why. It's more about the convenience of being with those of your own kind, than some negative attitude or wish to STAY AWAY from those who are different.