I am Filipino, but it seemed everybody in school thought I was Chinese.
In elementary I was best friends with a very popular Black African.
We had white supremacist friends who were close enough to reciprocate invites to birthday parties; they did not exactly invite "everybody".
Those race haters spewed racial hate only against strangers, so maybe they were desperate for friends in our small town, or maybe some racists make an exception for attractive women and useful "friends"?