'When youth have friends from different racial and ethnic groups, they are more likely to report feelings of safety and are less likely to feel victimized at school,' writes CornellBCTR
The study found that students who had more friends from their own ethnic group – especially Latino and African American students – felt more positively about their ethnicity. It’s likely that these students were able to draw comfort from feeling like a member of a larger group, and therefore were less likely to feel vulnerable, researchers said.
Despite the demonstrated benefits of cross-ethnic friendships, the data show that youth prefer to make friends from their own ethnic groups. Encouraging schools to create diverse classrooms, then, is an important component in fostering friendships that cross racial and ethnic boundaries, the researchers wrote.published in 2018 evaluated an intervention called the Fast Friends Task to find out if it could encourage cross-ethnic relationships.
Afterward, all participants were given surveys that asked how they felt about their new friend and measured theirlevels toward different ethnic groups and their ability to understand someone else’s point of view. Youth who participated in the friend-making intervention were more likely to have developed a close relationship with their partner and demonstrated more willingness to spend time with members of that partner’s ethnic group. Although intervention participants did not demonstrate greater empathy toward their partner’s ethnic group as a whole, the researchers concluded that developing a new friendship within that ethnic group could help youth to develop that empathy over time.
The take-home message: When youth have friends from different racial and ethnic groups, they are more likely to report feelings of safety and are less likely to feel victimized at school. Cross-ethnic friends can also help to boost academic achievement. Some data demonstrates that youth may not be likely to seek out friends from other racial and ethnic groups, but interventions that encourage these friendships can be effective.
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