Middle School in the states was just a learning curve.. because throughout those 3 years I went through 2 school districts. The one school district I started in had an ELL program at the time for foreign students to learn English, and within that ELL program, you've had your wide variety of different nationalities...
You've had your Bosnians, Russians, Polish, Indians, Ukrainians, Pakistani, and even better... The Mexicans.
During the lunch period, there was a whole table that was referred to as the Mexican Table, and a lot of the Mexican Kids sat together in that table. I had a friend who sat at the table... and each time they always made a joke that White kids weren't allowed... so of course, I figured a way to join in with them... after awhile they didn't care that I was white... they knew I was different for a white kid, and I gotten to know a lot of them.
Some of them had their tough-guy attitudes, yet the others were quite insightful...
The politics behind that experience was that these guys were going with what they were familiar with... and adding me into the mix, was just a way of melting down the weird tensions they had with White Kids at the time... I'm sure it's better now, yet back then it wasn't "Trumpy Like Even"... it was better, because you had more open dialogue with different people... no matter if they were Mexican, Bosnian, or any other nationality.
If the Trumpist ideas were like that back then in the school district with the ELL program, it wouldn't be a comfortable environment for them, as well as myself.