It can become very rare for a member of…
Page 103. It can become very rare for a member of the majority group that friendships in the minority group.
— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society) · Human Network written by Matthew O. Jackson
In the book
Worse, simply getting to know one member of an out-group can backfire, marking them in our minds as the exception rather than softening the whole. It is rarer than we like to think for a member of a majority group to form a real friendship across the line into a minority one. The antidote, the social scientists find, is to deliberately call attention to the traits people hold in common rather than the ones that set them apart, and to keep our focus on how arbitrary most of our animosities really are. — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)