People who we meet and who we choose to
meet matters a lot, as it affects our life as well as our way of thinking. In
this regard, spending time with few close friends or mingle with lots of
friends could be a controversial matter. If I were asked to choose between two
options, I would choose it is more beneficial to meet many friends and spend
time together. There are several reasons as follows.
To begin with, when we meet many
friends, we can have chance to broaden our perspectives. Spending time with them
exposes us to different lifestyles, customs and cultures. Such exposure is
likely to help us to acknowledge that there are different values and ultimately
comfortable with it by understanding its(their) diversity. For
example, when I was in middle school, I saw one of our classmates from India
eating his meal with bare hands. I felt it quite uncomfortable at that
time and started to keep distance from him. However, after spending few weeks
with some of other foreign friends from other country in the soccer club, I got
used to this cultural difference. I realized that we just had different eating
styles but had a lot in common in a way that we all care about our family and
friends. I no longer felt awkward with them any more and since then, we
still keep in touch.
Second, spending time with few close
friends could form a lopsided view as they are likely to convey biased
information. People have their own personal views, beliefs and values. When
their personal thoughts are delivered to others, it is likely to form a skewed
idea. For example, Oxford university found a huge difference between two groups
of young adults in their understanding of the refugee policy. One group is
consisted of those who interact with few of their friends and the other group
was made up of those who meet a lot of friends. The former was more likely to
have a lower level of accuracy in understanding the refugee policy than the
latter. In particular, many of the first group had an extreme one-sided feeling
about the refugees, while most of the second group acknowledged both the bright
and dark side of the issue. This implies that people are not likely to get a
balanced perspective to the issues they are dealing with by interacting with
few of their friends.
To sum up, I
believe it is a lot valuable to mingle with a lot of friends than just
interacting with few close friends for the reasons I mentioned above. Spending
time with many different friends from diverse background should not be
overlooked.
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