How about no?  If I&#x27;m in a group of sports fans, then no, I really don&#x27;t give a shit about getting to know about how these stupid teams are doing this season.  If you have an interest in something, great, but don&#x27;t expect me to give two shits about it.  If I have an interest, I&#x27;ll let you know, if not, I&#x27;ll just politely decline.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the minority person can&#x27;t ask, &quot;hey, does anyone follow XYZ?&quot;.  He might be surprised.  But if not, don&#x27;t expect everyone to have or feign an interest.<p>And surely, in a team of technologists, they can find something that they&#x27;re all interested in and can talk about.  Maybe something to do with, oh, I don&#x27;t know, maybe <i>technology</i>?  I have conversations at work all the time like that (luckily I work with some really smart people at my current job), about future trends in tech, etc.  But I&#x27;ve worked with some dullards in the past, and I didn&#x27;t get butt-hurt that they didn&#x27;t want to talk about sci-fi or whatever.