Friends was hugely popular with my generation, and still is. But my son, who is basically their age in the show, and lives in NYC, finds it bland and dull. His first issue is the group itself. "Show me one NYC friend group that doesn't have any minorities or gays."

It's a great point, but I still love them, and laugh at it.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a lot that's unbelievable about their friend group but I dunno about the race/sexuality demographic being one of them. It's much weirder that it's an even 3/3 gender split

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My son's friend groups are extremely mixed. Coming out of college, he had a group of about 8-10, and only two of them were American, and there were various sexual orientations and genders. Then Covid hit, and they all went back to their home countries and never returned.

He's gone back to college for a new degree, and trying to cultivate a new group. He's not interested in social media, video games, anime, Marvel movies, etc., so he doesn't relate too well to American students. So far he's got a Japanese girl, and a Chinese girl, and neither speaks much English. He's been proofreading their homework for them, and taking them to the local museums.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That rocks. Years ago I had an coworker from Iraq and we hit it off so every weekend we'd go to a new place (museum, history, etc) and try a new restaurant.

Unfortunately his wife was never able to integrate and became very depressed. They wound up moving back to Jordan and I haven't been to a museum since. It's nice to learn about stuff through someone else's perspective, I would have never gotten into it alone

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I love Art Museums. When I'm in a new city, I always try to find a couple hours to hit the local museum. Some cities are great, while others have terrible art museums (Mobile, AL is the worst I've encountered). Even if I only have a short time, most museums have a map that highlights their best stuff, so you can do a quick run through, and peruse the masterpieces.

Just pick a museum, and Go!

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm from Chicago and there's no shortage of incredible museums. There's even a leather museum...like...of the daddy variety. Couldn't be further from my interests but I still want to check it out just for fun