>>4478323Race is important. As a jew, personally I'd be fine having white or Asian friends, but blacks, latinos, Arabs and Indians put me off on an instinctive level, it'd sour the experience.
Age is important cause a 18yo is worried about college and losing his virginity, a 30yo is worried about not losing his house or trying not to quit art. A 50yo is probably looking forward to retire and his art has no financial obligations. So the environments are completely different.
Gender is important because trannies will eventually bring you trouble, women won't ever be good for harsh criticism or more banter-like connection, although I do have female art friends and they are cool to talk about meta stuff (life problems, client-artist relations, stress managament and all that).
Nationality is important partially because of race, but also timezones, culture (if we're both from Eastern Europe, we might understand each other's particular problems better), even language affinity. An EOP might not want to deal with some Peruvian who can't put a grammatical sentence together, but a random guy from Guatemala might take up on his offer and they can Jaja alongside.
