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I grew up in Manitoba in a neighbourhood of mostly Jewish and Ukrainian kids. The Ukrainians didn't like us, because they thought we killed Jesus Christ [[who ironically, if there was such a person, was a Jew!). There were other ethnic groups in the area, mostly Scandinavians, Finns and Icelanders. We hung out with our Jewish friends and also the non-Ukrainians. My best friend was a Norwegian, who lived next door. We stayed good friends all the way till his untimely death in 2005. Everyone was a Caucasian. Maybe there were one or two Chinese kids during my entire school time there.
Just before high school, we moved to Chicago [[South Chicago, near its boundary with The South Side- an area which was almost exactly half African-American and half Caucasian. Almost all my friends there were Black. In also worked a few miles up the road on The South Side, which was 100% Black. I made a lot of friends there as well. For whatever reason, I felt more "at home" among The Black Community. In high school, The Caucasians and African Americans were not tremendously integrated, but there was some mixing. As small amount of the opposite group were "accepted by" and hung out with each of the 2 groups. Just before my senior year, we moved to a "Lily-White" suburb [[Homewood), which had a fair amount of prejudiced people [[who didn't like Blacks or Jews). Worse yet, Homewood-Flossmoor High School had kids from Flossmoor, which was a suburb full of very rich people [[most of whom [[HS kids included) didn't want to associate with us "poor peons". I still had friends from the old neighbourhood and the area near my father's store, as I still went to work.