How to make friends with white suburban moms as a minority?
I’m of south Asian descent but American born. I admit, most of my friends are other south Asians that I met during my schooling and professional career, because a lot of people in my profession tend to be south Asian/Middle Eastern. My husband has no problems making friends with people of all ethnicities, but for some reason, as a woman in her mid 30s, I have issues making female friends. It seems like, in general, the women that live in my community, although we live in an affluent area are harder for me to relate to and don’t reach out to me. Like for example, I threw a birthday party for my daughter and invited all of the kids in her daycare class, but no one has reciprocated for their own kids birthday parties. No one has attempted to create a group chat for us to do play dates and I feel like I’m the only one that puts in the effort.
I seem to have no issues finding new South Asian/arab moms and instantly becoming friends with them but overall it feels like, white women are more closed off. I would like to be able to interact with my daughter’s friend’s moms, but I don’t seem to know how to do it. Any advice?
I don’t mean this as an insult btw, but my general observation that white people in their 30s don’t seem to want to expand their friend circle and it sucks. In our south Asian culture, we are naturally very social and we don’t have a stopping point when it comes to building our friend circle.