Cry me a river.  Honestly, you&#x27;re not going to share interests with everyone.<p>I&#x27;m a white guy.  If I go to lunch with a bunch of manager or sales guys, and they start talking about sports, I&#x27;m going to have exact same problem.  I don&#x27;t give two shits about sports, and I think spectator sports are incredibly stupid.  So if I find myself in a group of sports fans, then I&#x27;m also going to feel that I don&#x27;t have much in common with these people.  Does that mean they&#x27;re a bunch of racists?  Obviously not; we simply don&#x27;t share the same culture.  If the conversation shifts to technology, or sci-fi, or Game of Thrones (a lot of people are into that these days), etc., then I&#x27;ll be able to join in, but if the sports fans aren&#x27;t into talking about that stuff over lunch, then I&#x27;m out of luck.  I&#x27;m not going to whine much about it, except maybe for making some snide remarks about how stupid sports fans are, but I&#x27;m certainly not going to go on a crusade about it.<p>Luckily, I usually get along pretty well with coworkers this way, but I guess engineers tend not to be sports fanatics as much as the general population.  But I certainly have found myself in situations with groups of people with very different interests than myself.  I didn&#x27;t make a big deal out of it; I know that my interests are a little more narrow and that I eschew many things that regular people like (sports, popular TV shows aside from GoT), so I try to find people I do share interests with.