"Minorities" in your Community

[a_propagandist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut,_California#Demographics

Of Asian descent and semi-knowledgeable of my ancestral culture but pretty throughly Americanized. Don't care really, just care about the level of wealth (though I myself am lower-middle) and crime here. Have heard stories of a minor Asian gang in fact.

As for Al_da, the question is not whether you close your borders or not. The Caucasian birthrate is below 2, thus, you'll die off anyways. For the sake of having liberal and secular white people, I beseech you guys to procreate! Not you though. Also, what is your problem, man? Understand the difference between culture and race and that cultures are not mutually exclusive! You can celebrate whatever you Scandinavians celebrate, go out and eat Thai food, then drink yourself to sleep with Russian vodka. For anecdotal example, I speak excellent English (not online though), pretty decent Cantonese, and am entering my fourth year of high school French.

By the way, aren't you part Slavic and part Nordic? Theoretically, you're a mix, aren't you?

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

According to the 2005 Population Census of Japan, the city of Osaka has a population of 2,628,811.... ....There were 99,775 Registered Foreigners, with the two largest groups being Korean (71,015 people) and Chinese (11,848 people).

That's 3.8%, plus the tiny number of minorities that have taken on Japanese citizenship. I certainly certainly don't object to my presence here, and the other minority populations, though small enough to miss, are a big plus for the city.

I voted for the last option, as Japan needs more immigrants and should get over its reluctance to allow them to settle here.

 

[CaptainF]

Columbus has a thriving minority community, full of Somalians, other African-Americans, Latinos, and Greeks....which means That we have wonderful food around here!

Ahh man, that sounds wonderful.

That's one thing I really like about truly large cities (like NYC, Chi-City, etc.) is their ability to cater to everything. Around here in my part of (rural) Oregon in a town of 50,000 ppl, the options are rather limited indeed. Our menu extends to Mexican, Japanese Indian, and that general glitzy yuppie infested shat holes that serve faux and effete "Italian". Ugh...I'm starting to understand the concept of Californication a lot better these days...

 

[CurtSibling]

I have the rivers of blood speach bookmarked. I don't beleive in racial discrimination. I beleive in segration. In a truely segregated world there would be no discrimination and no racism.

It is sadly true - !
If everyone kept themselves to themselves, it would be a better world.

There is no law that says we must all mix together...
It's an agenda by world leaders to destroy cultural identity...

It goes both ways, the refugees and asylum seekers are also victims
of this plan, as their countries are ruined by the same kind of leaders.

Defeated people with no heritage are easy to control...

Think about it...

....

 

[CurtSibling]

Its hilarious how the Turks and Arabs could never conquer Europe militarily, so they decided to just migrate to Europe and you guys actually fell for it. Have fun living in the Sultanate of Europistan in 50 years with sharia law everywhere lol.

Even funnier will be AMERICO, when you lot are drowned in Latino 'culture',
and also every US city is like a scene from 'Escape From New York' - !

Bigger LOL!

 

[Mise]

The foreign food is good. Lots of take-away / restaurant variety. That's about the only benefit. I can't think of any disadvantages specifically related to their foreign-ness.

 

[jessiecat]

The foreign food is good. Lots of take-away / restaurant variety. That's about the only benefit. I can't think of any disadvantages specifically related to their foreign-ness.

Lived in a Turkish (and Kurdish) neighbourhood in London for 20 years. Great food. Nice people. Don't know what some kids on this thread are babbling on about. Didn't do my cultural identity any harm. Where's the problem?

BTW The "Rivers of Blood" speech? Written by Enoch Powell, who, as Tory Minister of Heathin the 1950's recruited the largest no. of Caribbean people ever to staff the National Health Service. And was completely wrong in his predicting that black immigration who spark violent racial conflict and massive bloodshed. Powell was even shunned and dumped from membership of the Conservative Party for his extreme views.
Al needs to find a more appropriate mentor for his racist rants, I think.

 

[Ansar]

Even funnier will be AMERICO, when you lot are drowned in Latino 'culture',

We don't say Americo, though...

We call the huge mass on the western side of the world America.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut,_California#Demographics

Of Asian descent and semi-knowledgeable of my ancestral culture but pretty throughly Americanized. Don't care really, just care about the level of wealth (though I myself am lower-middle) and crime here. Have heard stories of a minor Asian gang in fact.

As for Al_da, the question is not whether you close your borders or not. The Caucasian birthrate is below 2, thus, you'll die off anyways. For the sake of having liberal and secular white people, I beseech you guys to procreate! Not you though. Also, what is your problem, man? Understand the difference between culture and race and that cultures are not mutually exclusive! You can celebrate whatever you Scandinavians celebrate, go out and eat Thai food, then drink yourself to sleep with Russian vodka. For anecdotal example, I speak excellent English (not online though), pretty decent Cantonese, and am entering my fourth year of high school French.

By the way, aren't you part Slavic and part Nordic? Theoretically, you're a mix, aren't you?

Great you have lost your culture and identity. With globalisation there will soon only be one culture, an americanized commercial culture. Genuine native cultures are loosing ground.

So we will have to have more kids. In the past it was done, why can't we do it now? Besides there are to many people on this planet.

I want to preserve both cultural and racial differences. I don't want people all over the world to look the same or have the same culture.

Both slavic and nordic people are white so even if I was a mix it wouldn't have been a problem. My dad is french canadian, my mom is swedish.

That's 3.8%, plus the tiny number of minorities that have taken on Japanese citizenship. I certainly certainly don't object to my presence here, and the other minority populations, though small enough to miss, are a big plus for the city.

I voted for the last option, as Japan needs more immigrants and should get over its reluctance to allow them to settle here.

I have been to Japan. It is paradise. Homogenous, strong culture and traditions and low crime rates. Don't make Europe's mistake.

The foreign food is good. Lots of take-away / restaurant variety. That's about the only benefit. I can't think of any disadvantages specifically related to their foreign-ness.

The loss of your culture and heritage?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

This is a question I've wanted to ask for a while:

Is there a large minority community in your town? What's your opinion on minority communities?

For this question, assume a minority to be a religious, ethnic, or racial community which is not the majority in the nation (i.e Asians in America, etc). Thus, if you are a white guy in your town where everyone else is black, then there is a large minority community in your town (the black people). Also, "large" is defined as greater than the national average.

My answer:
Yes. My town has roughly 80,000 people in it, of which 40% are minorities *by my estimate). 15% are North Indians and Sikhs, 10% are South Indians, 5% are African/African-American, and 10% are East Asian.

Poll's coming up.

I live in Baltimore most of the year; I AM the minority.

However, when I am home, I am in the majority.

Great you have lost your culture and identity. With globalisation there will soon only be one culture, an americanized commercial culture. Genuine native cultures are loosing ground.

So we will have to have more kids. In the past it was done, why can't we do it now? Besides there are to many people on this planet.

I want to preserve both cultural and racial differences. I don't want people all over the world to look the same or have the same culture.

Both slavic and nordic people are white so even if I was a mix it wouldn't have been a problem. My dad is french canadian, my mom is swedish.


I have been to Japan. It is paradise. Homogenous, strong culture and traditions and low crime rates. Don't make Europe's mistake.

I call Godwin's Law.

The loss of your culture and heritage?

Brothers! We are foregathered here to preserve our hallowed culture'n heritage! From intrusions, inclusions and dilutions! Of culluh! Of creed! Of our ol'-time religion! We aim to pull evil up by the root! Before it chokes out the flower of our culture'n heritage! And our women! Let's not forget those ladies, y'all, lookin' to us for p'tection! From darkies! From Jews! From Papists! And from all those smart-ass folk say we come descended from the monkeys! That's not my culture'n heritage! Izzat your culture'n heritage? And so... we gonna hang us a neegra!

 

[Whomp]

Cook County is where I live.

The county has 5,288,655 residents, which is larger than the populations of 29 individual U.S. states and the combined populations of the six smallest US states.

The racial makeup of the county was 56.27% White, 26.14% Black or African American, 0.29% Native American, 4.84% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 9.88% from other races, and 2.53% from two or more races. 19.93% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 9.1% were of Polish, 8.1% German, 7.9% Irish and 5.7% Italian ancestry according to Census 2000. 17.63% reported speaking Spanish at home; 3.13% speak Polish.

2005 Census estimates placed the non-Hispanic white population of Cook County at 45.4% of the total population of the county. Other racial groups were African-Americans at 26.4%, Latinos at 22.2% and Asians at 5.5%.[11] 2006 estimates showed the non-Hispanic white percentage of the population down to 44.7%.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois

 

[Bigfoot3814]

The loss of your culture and heritage?

OK look I'm a white guy. My "cultural identity" has nothing to do with whatever's going on in Scandinavia or anywhere else but right here in America, in my hometown that I share with people from all different races and cultures. I like going to eat at my Chinese restaurants and getting my hair cut at my Eastern European barber shop and going to school with my Hispanic, Asian and Black friends and teachers. Give me one good reason why I should change the way I am if I'm happy.

 

[Squonk]

There are three cities I have lived in for a year or more: Gliwice, Warsaw, and Damascus.
Gliwice: de facto it is homogenic linguistically. Yet, about 5% citizens of the city declared german nationality (in the suburbs, mostly, they aren't real germans, but polish-speaking Silesians who declare themselves Germans for various reasons, it's a complicated story) and 1% declared themslves Silesians. There are also some people of armenian origin, including yours truly. When it comes to religion, there are a lot of catholic churches, at least 2 lutheran, at least 1 adventists, at least one some other fringy denomination, 1 armenian-catholic, 1 buddhist temple, and perhaps some orthodox one, but I guess 90% or more of population is roman-catholic. There are also some new immigrants: Roma, "real" Armenians, a couple of Turks. There used to be more people from all over the world coming to study here, now it's less, but there are a couple of africans that settled here pernamently, including my neighbourhood. Oh, there are a couple of Jews as well, but the synagogue was destroyed during Kristalnacht and lately even the remains of it were destroyed. There is some place of worship next to the jewish cementary, though.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

My city is 90,000 and about 20% of it is Asian, with some places (like my neighborhood) being much higher.

 

[Mise]

The loss of your culture and heritage?

Err, no...

You might as well have said, "the loss of my purple and green-smelling fish."

 

[Quinzy]

Even in my small town in the North-West of Ireland, there's a large enough Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Romanian and Nigerian population.

 

[Mirc]

Bucharest, Romania - I don't think we have any stable minority except for the Roma. Some of them are perfectly ok people (I could give a few tens of examples from my music highschool - music highschools are probably the places with most Romas concentrated in any kind of educational institution), some of them are beggars and the kind of people we are famous for, abroad. Can't give a general rule, but I would DEFINITELY prefer if the latter group would change its habits or leave. The former kind, I'd be happy to help them stay if they ever need my help.

Honestly I'd like a bit more diversity, I don't know why, I guess it just denotes well-being and good standard of living. We have almost no immigration, although we do get quite a bit of tourists, mostly in the early summer.

Occasionally we'll get Hungarians from the areas with a significant Hungarian population, but not very often. And I know 2 Koreans living here.

During communist times, we used to have quite a lot of African students at various unis here, but now there are much less.

 

[a_propagandist]

Great you have lost your culture and identity. With globalisation there will soon only be one culture, an americanized commercial culture. Genuine native cultures are loosing ground.

I want to preserve both cultural and racial differences. I don't want people all over the world to look the same or have the same culture.

Both slavic and nordic people are white so even if I was a mix it wouldn't have been a problem. My dad is french canadian, my mom is swedish.

I have been to Japan. It is paradise. Homogenous, strong culture and traditions and low crime rates. Don't make Europe's mistake.

Eh, not really. I've just become a carrier-link for multiple cultures.

As for the "I want to preserve" portion, are cultures mutually exclusive? It is possible to retain traditional Swedish culture while absorbing the ideas of other cultures. Why don't you want everyone to look the same? Wouldn't that also reduce racism? That point made, I have to point out that even after thousands of years of "inter-racial" marriages, we would still look different.

Er, don't know what you're smoking but those two are both racially and culturally different. Oh noes, if you allow inter-racial marriages between Europeans, you'll end up with one homogenized culture! By definition, culture is an amalgamation of language, religion, tradition, and other goodies. Let's compare Swedish and French culture:

Language: Completely different
Religion: One favors Catholic while the other favors Protestant
Traditions: It would be difficult to find French people who routinely listen to Swedish folk-music etc.

On multiple criteria, Romance cultures differ from Nordic cultures, so the bit about preserving and not mixing cultures is ironic since you are the product of a mix of cultures. Yes, white people have different cultures amongst themselves, so do every other color on this earth.

As for race, you are a mix yourself.

OMG, the Germanics need to stay in their own lands, while the Slavs need to stay in their own corner of the world! We need to preserve teh blond hair and blue eyes of Scandinavia from teh brown eyes and dark hair of Southern Europe! You don't want to have a homogenized Europe where everyone has the same culture and appearance, do you?

As for Japan, I ask you: ever hear of yakuza? And why were you even there? Shouldn't you stay in your own lands and refuse to buy any and all Japanese goods? It must have been tough searching for the Franco-Swedish restaurant every time you were hungry in Japan, right?

 

[CurtSibling]

We don't say Americo, though...

We call the huge mass on the western side of the world America.

Sigh!

I was playing on Latino language! Like Mexico!

That is why I said AMERICO!

Geddit?Geddit?Geddit?Geddit?

*Curt shoots himself*

 

[CurtSibling]

Do we have to derail the tread to pander to the abserdities of a biggoted teen?

Why not? That's business as usual around here!