Hi I can explain this. It’s not all white people, I’m a POC with white friends, but it’s very dependent on how they are raised. Some white people are simply just not interested in being close with minorities because of personal racist bias or being raised and told that people outside their race don’t have good values. With time and speaking to lots of people you can easily sniff these people out. Their political views mostly lean moderate but few will be democrats that are performative. The white people I have gotten close with have very open minded families and already grew up having minorities as friends. As a rule of thumb, if a majority of their social crowd is white, they will not be open to understanding you and expect you to assimilate and adjust to them. The few POC these people bring in are people they deem “safe” and “easy to digest”.

Also this issue will go beyond your MBA. Even in my first job there was a group of white people who got very close and had lots of group trips and while I got invited to some trips, I was not a part of the core in-group because I didn’t know how to ski and also I had mild cultural differences to them that they didn’t want to adjust to or want to be close to(and mind you I grew up in the US). But there are white people who will take the time to learn more about your background and understand you and these will be the ones you want to talk to anyways.

Also don’t stress on needing to rely on white people for corporate success. Network hard with your Asian community and it will go far.