I see what you mean. Perhaps, reiterating my statement would help, because I wasn't entirely clear the first time.

I find most of my groupmates shallow, insecure and often self-centered. The things they're discussing are, from my perspective, boring, insignificant and meaningless. They talk because they want to talk to somebody, which I'm not interested in (gotta have standards). I don't want to spend time with most of my groupmates so that I will not adapt to their ways. My mind already has its own collection of self-destructive ideas which I want to purge, and spending time with those people won't help me any; I'm afraid it will even encourage them. Don't even get me started on going good to them - as in, helping them come out of their shells or something: I'm not the guy; see above for reasons.

Like I said, I understand what you mean. Given a good person, I would be glad to spend time with them even if we're different in views. Maybe my groupmates are good people, too, and I just haven't discovered it, but they aren't engaging me as persons right now.

EDITed the post a bit; I made it unnecessarily angry at first and painted my groupmates in a worse light than I intended to.