On Being the Only Afro-Caribbean Woman in My Friendship Group

My experience with having a lack of BAME friends, how it made me feel, and how I changed my situation.

Shamar M
ZORA
Published in
5 min readJun 20, 2023

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Photo by Gemma Chua-Tran on Unsplash

According to Statista, in 2011 only 3% of the entire population in the United Kingdom were black. Therefore, I lived and grew up in a predominately white neighborhood in a predominately…

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Shamar M
ZORA
Writer for

27. Based in the UK. PG DIP HR Management. Chief of publication The First Time. Editor in About Me Stories.