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Basically, you're right and thank you for acting that way. Your parents are wrong.
This could depend where you are from. I'm from France and a bit of chit-chat with a stranger is not a bad thing to me. But if a male stranger try a bit too hard to stir up a conversation, I would feel ackward, mostly because I'll "fear" they are trying to hit on me, which is not okay for a stranger to do out of nowhere.
But at the same time if you try to make friend with more women, maybe one day, you'll find a partner in one of them. If you genuinly try to make connection with a woman in a non-sexual and non-romantical way and after sometime, you feel like having another kind of relation, it is totally different and not creepy at all.
This is terrible advice. Don't listen to it OP! She's sending you down the nice guy friend zone trap!
Where is the trap? There have been tons of women in my life that if celircumstances were (totally) different I would be down for sex, but they aren't. I'm married, they are in committed relationships, and we don't bring it up beyond maybe some silly flirting.
I am happy they are my friends. A couple of them turned me down when circumstances WERE different, but I still value the relationship, as friends. I value their company, and that's enough. I am better off knowing them and I hope they feel the same.
Saying "don't ever express your sexual or romantic interest in women, just be their friend and eventually they'll come around" is the cringy, needy, "nice guy" playbook. It (1) never works, (2) is disingenuous, and (3) never gets you any closer to having any sexual or romantic partners in the long run.
I'm not saying "don't be friends with women". I'm saying - if you are into a girl, make a fucking move. Clearly and openly express your interest and take rejection on the chin. And don't assume that getting romantically rejected means you can't be friends afterwards and use that as an excuse to procrastinate.
That's all true.