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damien_s_lucifer 
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Posted on: Feb. 18 2001,07:10 |
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This thread is sort of a spin-off on the Denmark thread... I was thinking about how culturally heterogeneous the US is as compared to most other countries. For example, if you hear "so-and-so is from Denmark" or "so-and-so is from Vietnam," it's almost certain that the person is Danish or Vietnamese. But if a person is American, they can be black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or any number of things. Furthermore, there are pretty big difference between people from the South, the West, the East, etc.Even California is like that. People who live in LA are a lot different than people who live here in San Francisco. In the Bay Area, there is very little racial tension. A white man can walk into a bar in the blackest part of Oakland and not seem out of place or be in personal danger. If he's remotely cool he'll be adopted by the regulars. In LA there are very definite "black," "white," and "Mexican" parts of town. From personal experience, I can say that a white man is not welcome in the black parts of LA (although they turn friendly if you say "I'm from Oakland"), and vice versa - there's a lot of anger on the part of the blacks and white people tend to be pretty racist. Attitudes are different, the slang is different- to someone who grew up in the Bay Area, it seems really, really weird. So I thought it would be interesting to compare the different ways people are in different parts of the world. Tell me something about Philadelphia, West Virginia, Arizona, Syndney, Copenhagen, London, or wherever else you call home. <class="forum-nazi" onload="remove_nationalist_sentiments()">This is not a US vs. everyone else thread!! This is about your HOMETOWN, not your COUNTRY!</class> It should be a little like traveling without having to leave your beloved PC at home  edit : misc. grammar & spelling. This message has been edited by damien_s_lucifer on February 19, 2001 at 02:36 AM
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Sithiee
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Posted on: Feb. 18 2001,11:33 |
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well, here in arlington, (2nd smallest county in the US) we have about 4 or so parts of town. theres the spanish area, and thats pretty big, i think thats sound arlington. i go through that part of town a lot(im white/jewish/whatever), cause i have friends there and its the fastest way to skyline. theres a black part of town, and i go through there pretty often cause thats the shortcut to lee highway from school, and its the fastest way home from kfc. theres the upper class white area, lyon village, but i dont go through there often, cause its not on the way to anywhere, and i dont have many friends there....plus i get lost there all the time about a million do not enter signs, so i dont know how to get around there. and then theres where i live, and thats just sort of a middle class mostly white area. its pretty nice, just a scoch out of the way sometimes....so yeah, thats arlington, most of us arent that discriminating...unless your a republican that is.
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CatKnight
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sithiee, you mean arlington, VA? that place is so white. my home is in silver spring maryland. we live in this little orthodox jewish pocket in the middle of a huge latino/black influx. there is some major white flight going on. usually the races are pretty seperated though. like at lunch all the black people sat on one side and the white people at one table (hehe). here in state college though, it is really white. there are some black people but they seem very reclusive and don't hang out with white people at all. i've also seen several people with confederate flags on their hats or truck license plates. never saw that in silver spring.
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Spydir Web
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it might just be "my young eyes don't see the world" like in to kill a mocking bird, but I see very little racial anything around here. pretty good mix of everyone, atleast in the schools. There are a few different "devisions" of places, but it's more how much money you make then what race you are. Although this is "deep south" (Raleigh, North Carolina), I don't see to many jobs that are specific to a race, except home building. My mom's a real estate agent for Centex Homes, and I go around to the neighborhoods a lot. lots of hispanics working around the houses. But they're pretty damned good at it. Fast as hell.
At school though, whole different story. In classes there tends to be a mix of cliques, but even that isn't to much. I walk around in the halls a lot before school, and I see how people spread out. The punk rock/raver/gonna blow something up kids walk around, laughing about stuff mostly. The wannabee-ghetto-but-is-never-gonna-happen-because-there's-no-such-thing-in-north-carolina kids (black or white) fill up one big hall. All the abercrombie&fitch kids hang out in front, and from what I can tell mostly their freshmen... At lunch it breaks up about the same. Really the only clique that I've seen that has the "best mix" of anything is my own. We're only... 5 strong... but all the other cliques are like 9 idiot football players strong...
anyways... I don't see much racial tension until a fight or something breaks out, and most the time it's just between the fighting people, never really between the asians and blacks or whites and hispanics.------------------
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damien_s_lucifer
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about Concord, CA : The population is 120,000. It occupies the northern part of the Diablo Valley, which is framed by the Oakland-Berkeley hills to the west, Mount Diablo (3800 feet, and features the best view in terms of sheer distance in the Northern Hemisphere) and its foothills to the south and east, and the Sacramento River to the north. So we obviously have a LOT of hills around here. They're bright green in the winter/spring, turning to gold in the summer. They're mostly oat grass with an occassional oak tree. All of the ridges are protected from development, so there is a lot of open space. People go hiking in them a lot, a lot of parties are thrown up there, and *every* kid who grew up here spent most of their childhood playing in them. The only problem with the hills is that since it often breaks 100 degrees in the summer, they're *very* flammable around that time. We have bushfires all the time. Everyone who lives around here knows the standard precautions to keep them from burning your house down, but it makes for a lot of smoky days in the summer. People in the Bay Area are very mobile, mostly because you can get to almost any type of terrain in a couple hours. From Concord, the Sonoma and Napa vineyards (where most California wine comes from) is a thirty minute drive. The Bay (sailboating, windsurfing) is also about thirty minutes. The beach is about an hour, the mountains (skiing! snowboarding! gambling! woohoo!) are three hours away, and Disneyland is five hours. So we take a lot of weekend trips We're pretty proud of our heritage, as home of the Beats, the hippies, the gays, and various other eccentric types- and yes, in San Francisco it is very common to see gay couples walking around. Very few people are actually bothered by it. The vast majority think it's cool that we live in a place where people are accepted for who they are. We also are very emphatic that L.A. != California. For example, very few people here surf simply because the ocean is too cold, and the beaches are rocky - with the exception of Santa Cruz, if you go to the beach you bring hiking shoes and a jacket. Gated communities exist, but most of us (even the rich) shun them. Although the word "dude" is in wide usage, that's about the only Valley Talk you'll find. Black people are allowed to do more than wait tables and run from racist cops. Ditto for the Mexicans - although a large portion of them are day workers who hang out at 7-11s waiting for a farmer to hire them. (The Central Valley - which is like 1/4 of the state's total area - is one enormous farm.) Oh yeah, and can anybody say Medical Marijuana and the Cannabis Clubs? The Clubs carry a couple dozen varieties of the absolute best bud in the world outside of Amsterdam. Northern Lights, Purple Kush, White Widow, hashish, hash oil, kif, and a wide variety of magic foods (brownies, chocolates, spice mixes) are available there. I smoked four hits of White Widow and was damn near catatonic, and apparently that's not the strongest variety they carry. If you know the Right People you can get a card for just about anything. **drool** and if you get caught with weed, the cops just take it, grind it out with their boot, give you a lecture and move on. If they're in a really bad mood, or you're a total dick, the worst they can do is fine you 贄 and suspend your driver's license for 6 months. Okay, I showed you mine, so let's see more of yours. I ain't going on vacation any time soon.
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Sithiee
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CatKnight, you are so wrong. we have a major spanish population, id estimate at least 1/2 the county, if not more is spanish. we also have a decent sized black population, and to a lesser extent arab/asian/etc. maybe you were hanging out around yorktown hs, where everyone is rich and white, but trust me, this place isnt "so white".
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I live in Des Moines, IA. What a perfectly boring place... well, not to me, but I bet some of you guys would think so.There's not much to do but go to the little clubs in Ames (Iowa State area) or a bar. Since I'm a) too young to drink and b) don't drink, I mainly go to movies. I think that we've probably got "hanging out at a friend's house" down to a science, though. And if you want to make this a matter or race... there's not a whole lot of that stuff going around. Of course, there are always those independent fools running around doing stupid stuff. (Like trying to ban immigration -- we even had commercials on TV about how they were "stealing our jobs." Keep in mind that this was while the unemployment rate was 2.5\%. Anyone who didn't have a job was unemployed due to laziness.) There are blacks and whites... concentration depends on where you are. In the suburbs, it's mainly upper middle class whites, and it sorta downgrades as you get closer to the center of Des Moines. There are more and more Bosnians showing up; more Mexicans, too. But aside from exasperation at the language barrier, there's no problems... ------------------
Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent. This message has been edited by Prometheus on February 20, 2001 at 09:54 PM
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