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Every town I've ever lived in is dominated by its ethnic enclaves. Is this politically correct in this day and age?
If you are black, is it OK to prefer housing in Harlem?
If you are Orthodox Jewish, is it OK to prefer housing in Boro Park?
If you are white, is it OK to prefer housing in Soho?
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Yes, live where you want. I can live anywhere. I have been adopted by the Armenian, Black and Jewish communities. Of course I'm a real life bastard ( no father - actually two fathers) and we get plus ten to our adaptive living skill.
I was so accepted in a Black neighborhood, a guy took a baseball bat to every car windshield on the block , except my truck.
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Yes, live where you want. I can live anywhere. I have been adopted by the Armenian, Black and Jewish communities. Of course I'm a real life bastard ( no father - actually two fathers) and we get plus ten to our adaptive living skill.
I was so accepted in a Black neighborhood, a guy took a baseball bat to every car windshield on the block , except my truck.
I'm on the border of a white area and a Dominican area. They have their different flavors. The Dominican area has this bodega where I'd say 90% of its business is working stiffs playing scratcher tickets. The white area is all artists or upper-middle-class pretend "artists" all showing off the latest fashion in baby strollers. I think I like the Dominican area better.
Also, the whiter an area is, the smaller, foofier and yappier the dogs are. This seems to be an ironclad rule of New York.
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No, it is not ok. The government should break up all groups and redistribute them so that every household is as close to a 1:1 ratio of each race as possible!
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No, it is not ok. The government should break up all groups and redistribute them so that every household is as close to a 1:1 ratio of each race as possible!
Would that mean you couldn't live with your goats anymore?? 
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Dominican is just a Latino neighborhood. A pseudo artistic neighborhood is an interesting topic for a work of art. The characters could be rich multi dimensional cardboard cut out stereotypes. I get a big kick out of granny welders and plein air geriatric water colorists. However, this group may be a little too familiar to me.
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Live wherever you want to, I only ask that you live within your means. 
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There was a Spongebob episode where Squidward went to live in a town full of people who looked exactly like him. Sure, it was great in the beginning. But over time life became boring and monotonous, so he ended up leaving his segregated environment and moved back to his old mixed neighborhood where he was most happiest.
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It doesn't really matter to me, as long as the place is safe and clean I don't care who I live around. I was the white guy in our neighborhood in Florida.
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Only if white people say that is the reason for it
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Its nice to live in places where everyone looks like you. When ypure an immigrant and have to live in a town where everyone looks different then its just a grind, everyday - you never feel at home.
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I lived with my identical twin for 25 years straight. It's an alright experience to live around people who look like me
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I'm more interested in lving near people having similar values; neighborliness, pride in their home and community etc. Yahoos come in every color.
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I grew up in southern california with all mexicans and my area had vietnamese. That was fine for the most part.
When I lived in northern california.. the apartment complex I was in was mostly black. Seems like someone got robbed almost every night or the cops were there every night.
So of course my experiences will help influence my choice of where to live.
It doesn't matter when it's a mixed area to me. I got a black neighbor now and we get along ok. But it's when it's almost entirely black that I don't really dig the situation.
/open racist I guess.
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Is it ok to not want to live around people at all?
For the record though, I prefer multi-cultural neighborhoods. I grew up in enlisted base housing - always feels like home to me to be surrounded by people of all walks of life. My current neighborhood is as good as you can get in the area (ie - we have one black family that lives in it)
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Never thought about it much, I suppose it's fine to want, but I just don't care.
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Its a natural thing to do.
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I'd prefer to live around white people. I know that white people are fucking me over no matter where I am. Other colored people rely on me being near them in order to fuck me over.
If possible, I prefer being fucked over by the least amount of people as possible.
It doesn't mean that blacks or hispanics are more or less likely to screw me over, I just know that those of them that would have a limited proximity.
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I live in a multicultural area and it's great. In the 6 units in our block there is only one other whitey and he like me wasn't born here. The only people that were born here are the lebanese family
it's really the food that I like the most though.
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I spent years living in cities (mostly Chicago and Atlanta) in areas that were racially and culturally as diverse as you can get. Loved it.
I now live in a small town that is more than 99% white and mostly stupid. I don't mind it here either.
Gets pretty damn boring at times, but what the hell? Not like I'm Mr Excitement and I fit in pretty damn perfectly..except when they start getting all religious and stuff and that's mostly just surface bull that you can ignore, same thing I did when it happened in the city.
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One reason I'd live amongst people of various ethnic origin is they have better food, music and practicalities.
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Yeah, I do miss variety in food, music and culture. Good thing that Asheville, NC is a short drive away and I tend to travel all over the place quite a bit.
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Asheville, NC is a nice place.. Not a lot of variety though. Just white and black people.
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That has changed a lot recently.
There has been a huge influx of Asian and Hispanic people and there are growing communities of eastern European and middle Eastern people as well. Only downside is it's getting a LOT more expensive in the area lately.
Besides, even with a mostly Black and White racial makeup, the number of subcultures within those two racial groups represented in Asheville is pretty amazing for such a small city, particularly one in this region. Every fringe group you can imagine is not only present, but often fairly well represented and accepted.
A nice city. Too bad it's also fast becoming geezerville of the east. Number one retirement relocation city in the US by some measurements. I think a lot of those people aren't aware of just how open and accepting of difference the city has been, and some are working hard (and spending a lot of money) to try and change that. They even tried to outlaw the Friday night drumming circle the hippies, burn outs, and just looking for fun hangers on have.
Place reminds me of a landlocked 1980's Key West...before development and corporate take over started to destroy it.
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I lived there back in the early 90s, it was like a hippie/new age place. I have fond memories.
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Yes, it is okay to want to live around people who look like you.
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Taliesihne posted:
Is it ok to not want to live around people at all?
Totally ok too!
The building in which I live is full of working class families, mostly first or second generation immigrants. They're pretty awesome, too busy working and taking care of the family to be pains in the ass to other folks.
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It is if you are hot and sexy like me.
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If you want to live around people who look like you BECAUSE they look like you you're kinda stupid and probably racist.
Most people don't really care that much about the looks, they just think looks are a proxy for shared interests and outlook. Which is also kinda dumb, but sadly there are worse proxies out there.
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Badjar kinda stole my thunder, but this would be hard for me because I'm the best looking dude in 3 states.
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I don't want to live near anybody. I don't care about language, looks, values, just go away.
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the_great_intex posted:
I lived with my identical twin for 25 years straight. It's an alright experience to live around people who look like me
the funny thing is you know what he looks like naked without even seeing him.
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Taliesihne posted:
Badjar kinda stole my thunder, but this would be hard for me because I'm the best looking dude in 3 states.
States of denial apparently.
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