Different Cultures & Their Attitudes

I am about to finish my first year at Arkansas Tech University. I am from a very small country town where all the residents are pretty much the same type of person. For example, every one from my town owns farm animals (cows, horses, pigs, goats, chickens, dogs, cats, etc.); every one from my town goes to church on Sunday morning and attends the high school football games on Friday nights; every one says "yes ma'am" and "yes sir" and respects their mom and dad; every one eats at the local Daisy Queen; and every one has each other's backs, but is always interested in the local drama. With all that being said, being at Tech for a year I have come in contact with many different races and people from many different countries. I have realized there are so many different types of people. Not every one has a southern accent and southern hospitality, and that isn't them being rude, it just isn't the way the culture they grew up in was. I have also noticed that the same types of people hang out together. For example, when I walk into Baztech or the caf I like to look at all the tables and the people who are eating or studying or just visiting, and every one sits in their own "groups". The baseball boys all sit together, the people in baseball caps and cowboy boots are usually at the same table, the people of the same ethnicity mingle together, the sorority girls and fraternity boys all dress the same and sit together, and usually the same age people hang out together. People hang out and become friends with the same type of people as themselves and don't even realize it. It's just our nature. All this has made me realize that all of my closest friends have pretty much the same background as I do, the same type of family, and the same interests. With all that being said, being at Tech has brought to light so many different ways of living and how culture affects the way people view and treat others.