What Nationalities are represented in your area?

[binny]

Do you have one or two that have a very strong presence?
Or is your area really diverse?

We have a very strong Basque community here. They are very active and we hear a lot about them. Also hear a lot about the Greek community. Other than that we don't seem to have a huge population of any one nationality.
We used to live in a very Swedish area. I think its great when we can learn about different cultures and heritages, I'm not trying to stir a pot or anything LOL I'm just curious

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

We have lots of hispanics and a very large russian community. Of course we have great mexican food! And everybody celebrates Cinco de Mayo and we have a Fiesta Amistad to bring together all of the different cultures.

The russian community is pretty close knit and we don't really see them doing any cultural events.

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

Just flipping thru both DD's yearbooks and noticed that there are quite a few Asian and Indian children. Both schools are a melting pot of several nationalities and cultures.

 

[Talking Hands]

Large Latin community (Cuban, Puerto Rican, Columbian, etc) , large Haitian community, large bahamian community, and a large Jewish community.

 

[janette]

Something I've liked about our area is the diversity. This is the stats from the elementary school:
Student Ethnicity
African American 9%
Hispanic 8%
White 49%
Other 34%

The hard part sometimes is pronouncing the names; a pretty wide variety but the kids have no problem with any of them.

 

[minkydog]

Lots of Latinos here, from Mexico, Guatamala, and Brazil. Also lots of Indians & Pakistanis, Nigerians, Ghanians, Jamaicans, Koreans, and Chinese. It's a little United Nations!

 

[deide71]

Minnesota used to be the land of Noreweigans, Swedes and Germans. In the 70's and early 80's we had a lrge influx of Hmong (Laos) and Vietnamese. Currently we are getting many Somalian and Mexican people.

I am very glad to see an increase in diversity here. We needed it. No offense to Scandinavians (I'm one of them) but their food is terrible.

 

[MorganLeFey]

NYC and its environs are the most ethnically diverse in the United States.

my Long Island community is predominatly Jewish, Italian and northern European, but we also have Latino, Greek, Chinese, Afrian-American, and Arab(Moslem). We have a Hindu house of worship in the neighborhood. my daughter has a friend whose parents are African immigrants, and another friend whose father describes himself as a "Persian Jew" -- he immigrated from Iran when he was 17.

when our school district does its cultural divsersity celebration every spring, it is undeniably diverse.

 

[LisaNJ25]

Hispanic more than anything else in my town.

 

[soccerfreak_08]

We are mainly Caucasian people. They have nicknamed our town(Vandalia) and call it Klandalia. It is very sad when I was a child my parents and I lived in a city with lots of different cultures and races. Now I am 16 and we live in a very small, racist town filled with Good 'Ol white boys. I hate living here. I hate the racism and I hate everyone being so closed minded. I miss diversity.

 

[nwdisgal]

Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hawaiian, Tongan, Portuguese, Brazilian, Caucasian.. and quite a bit of mixed races.

 

[Quinn222]

Our area is pretty diverse. Cuban, Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, Brazilian, Cambodian, Korean, Hatian, Middle Eastern, Italian, Greek, french canadian.
It's nice. I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of cultures and I think it makes for a richer experience.

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Difinite mish-mash here.......But I'd say most are white, Mexican, Asian and Middle Eastern. Much more diverse than when I was growing up. To quote Martha.... It's a good thing!!

 

[Barb D]

On the first day of school I counted DDs Kindergarten class, and I think about a third were Indian. She came home from school upset the other day because one of her friends has already left to go to India for the summer. "We won't see her again until first grade!"

 

[Evil Queen]

Large Latin community (Cuban, Puerto Rican, Columbian, etc) , large Haitian community, large bahamian community, and a large Jewish community.

Same here in Palm Beach County.

 

[PixieDust32]

Well, in the metro area, everything, but here in my town, about 2% african american, 6% hispanic, 90% white, 2% other.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Just about every ethnic group is in our area. Just in our tiny neighborhood of homes there are many different religions/ethnic groups, including people from Mexico, Columbia, Israel, an Arab country (not sure which--don't know them other to wave when we pass by), Indian, Asia, Africa, Greek, and I'm sure more that are not coming to me right now. It's extremely diverse, which I really like.

My kids are probably the minority at the high school, being caucasian. Maybe not really, but I didn't realize how diverse it was until my oldest started visiting colleges and some of them were not at all diverse, which stood out to us as being very different than we were used to.

I grew up in Southern Oregon, which was not at all diverse, so this is a welcome change from that. And one big added benefit are all the different cuisines of food for us to try.

 

[grlpwrd]

In Hawaii where I am from there are a lot of ethnicities and cultures represented: Filipino, Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Caucasian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican and other Hispanic people, Vietnamese, Korean, East Indian, Guamanian or Chamorro (indigenous Guamanian people), Samoan/Tongan/ and other Pacific Islanders, and others. Now there is a influx of more Hispanic people and people from Micronesia and the Marshall Islands migrating into the islands.

In Virginia where I am now we have Chinese, Korean, African American, Caucasian, Hispanic peoples, and some Native American and Pacific Islanders.

Forgot to add... My kids and I are multiethnic and I notice where we live there are people like us - families with biracial or multiracial children.

I like diversity.

 

[lowie]

Large Latin community (Cuban, Puerto Rican, Columbian, etc) , large Haitian community, large bahamian community, and a large Jewish community.

Lori<------ must be neighbors with you! (royal palm beach here) but my immediate neighborhood is VERY mixed... we have Indians, pakistanis, jews (including us), WASPs, columbians, jamaicans, israelis(non-jews) and more right on our own street! it's exactly the way i wanted to bring up my kids, realizing that everyone is equal and can live comfortably together.

 

[Viking]

My hometown Frankfurt has about 25% foreigners among its population of 650,000. Major groups are:
-Turkish
-Former Yugoslavians (Croatian. Serbian, etc)
-Morrocan
-Tunisian
-Greek
-Italian
-Spanish
-Polish
-Russian & other former Soviet states
-Thai
-Vietnamese
-Japanese
-Indian
-People from all over Africa