If I were in their shoes...

People with different background (habit, major, home town, sex) can have trouble to

communicate with each other even if they speak same language. Most of us have no

problem to talk to friends with similar background. For people with unrelated (or

even conflicting) background, it will be an art to communicate with them.

For me, it's important to have friends from both categories to increase the

depth and width of my knowledge. Talking to people with similar background,

I increase the depth of my knowledge on the similar back ground. On the other hand,

I could know more totally new stuffs and ideas if I talk to somebody majoring in

literature and thus increase the width of my knowledge.