As mentioned before, one can have various friends, of varied kinds. The funny thing is that you cannot define a friend's type so easily. If you could, you wouldn't get hurt so many times.
For those who remember the last post on the same subject, I have very literal friends called carole and denise, and as stereotyped as it can sound they are opposites. I got this week on the mail a very delicate card where my dear friend denise thanks me for my concern about her and for a gift I brought her from home. My actions were some much simpler than her retribution. It really is true the saying that when you give you get so much more in return...
Nevertheless (and I apologize for my academic vocabulary... too many papers these days)my friend carole only gives me hard times...There is nothing really straight with this person. Nothing is for sure, and at any time you can hear an awful thing, whereas from denise you will only hear awsome things.
Last night, for the second time, I got the feeling that one of the traits of carole friends is xenophobia. Do you even know what this means?
According to our very useful wikipedia, Xenophobia is one of prejudice with more suspicion, hatred, anxiety and rejection against foreigners, or, more generally, against the different ethnic groups, or individuals whose face social, political and cultural life is unknown.
Awful, ham?
How awful then, is to hear from your dear carole friend that in her family nobody will ever get married with a foreign girl? that if they do, they will be out of the family... when, not only you are a foreign, but also you have dated her nephew?
but again, friends can't ever be similar, right?
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