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During this conversation, I would have to watch what comes out of my mouth and make sure that it is kind and not exclusive. I could also invite some of my friends who I normally sit with at lunch to come and sit at another table with me. While sitting at the new table I could also invite some of the kids to come and sit with my friends and I at our usual lunch table. Second, I could talk to other people at my school, mostly meaning my friends, about putting out an extra effort to try to have a wide variety of friends including friends of all races. My friends may or may not be open to this idea for a few different reasons. First, most students at my school have at least one friend of another race, but that student also belongs to a group that is mainly if not entirely made up of students of that same race. That group seems to be the friend's first choice when they need to talk about something and the group they most open up to, whether it is because they can better relate to each other or for a different reason. Also, some of the students may not be able to understand the students of other ethnicities when they are talking, whether they are talking in a different language or if they are talking in English. People of different races seem to use different linguistics, which can sometimes be hard to understand. I myself could also try to befriend someone of a different ethnicity. I have a few friends of different races but I am not particularly close to any of them, and that is something I could work on. Again, I am not sure if my friends would want to be closer or if they prefer to be closer to people of the same race, but I could definitely try to get closer to them and to make some new friends. I also make many comments about others, and some of them are racial. I need to be careful about what I say and I would �