Mythee
Potato Singularity
Depending on where you are, it can be highly multicultural. I never know what to expect from people in Montreal behaviourally except for some general rules that seem to permeate more thoroughly like the right side of an escalator's for standing, the left side's for walking up (a fast lane even for foot traffic)- ya know, stuff that you can learn and pick up easily.
Also, as a general rule everywhere in the world, where there is more flux and diversity (ex.: an international school, where transfer students are often arriving from all over the world and departing to all over the world, or a diploma program for college/university that caters specifically to international students) there will be less cliques (ie.: the closed folds of preformed groups of people who have known each other a long time, making it difficult to befriend any of them).
This comes from my experience in both international and non-international school and the various settings I have described.
A tip: When I meet someone I really like and wish to befriend, I try to do a group project with them, thus providing an excuse to meet up as a group multiple times outside the school setting and at the end, celebrate as a group with cake at a cafe or something. This gets them used to the idea of meeting you out of class context, and then they will be more likely to accept/send invitations for friendship stuff.
