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I was watching that movie "Crash" and watch about the director and why he made it. He talked about the diversity in L.A., so many different types of people but yet you can sense a separation from each group. Which is why I vote for Chicago, because he mention, although Los Angeles has great diversity, in Chicago like New York City, you are always amoungst different cultures and people, almost forced into it because of its density. Thousands of families living in buildings within a square mile as oppose to Los Angeles which has more spread out communities.
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Chicago is not extremely more diverse compared to Houston.
There you go, proof! Proof is how the truth comes out instead of people assuming which a number do on this site. Tried to rep you but must "spread rep around first".
There you go, proof! Proof is how the truth comes out instead of people assuming which a number do on this site. Tried to rep you but must "spread rep around first".
Thats not really "proof". Sure there are lots of whites in Houston and Chicago, but there is more diversity amongst given races in Chicago than Houston. There are not too many right-off-the-boat whites in Houston like there are in Chicago. You wont find Albanian/Russian/Lithuanian/etc storefronts in Houston, let alone their architectural styles. THATS where the difference is. You wont find entire neighborhoods in Houston speaking in Russian or Polish, like you will in Chicago.
And noone is denying that Houston is diverse. Its quite diverse, just not on the same levels as CHI or L.A. Does this make sense now?
Chicago has the various eastern European communities that Houston doesn't. (My background is Polish-Americans and I for one deep down think the differences between Russians and Ukrainians or Serbs and Croatians is splitting hairs. People love nationalism for the simple fact that they like to get riled up over something).
Houston is very comparable or even more diverse in terms of Asians, Latin Americans, and Africans.
Thats not really "proof". Sure there are lots of whites in Houston and Chicago, but there is more diversity amongst given races in Chicago than Houston. There are not too many right-off-the-boat whites in Houston like there are in Chicago. You wont find Albanian/Russian/Lithuanian/etc storefronts in Houston, let alone their architectural styles. THATS where the difference is. You wont find entire neighborhoods in Houston speaking in Russian or Polish, like you will in Chicago.
And noone is denying that Houston is diverse. Its quite diverse, just not on the same levels as CHI or L.A. Does this make sense now?
It does have those kinds of stores. Just about every race and ethnicity is represented here. The difference is that there are not any real ethnic enclaves, everyone is kind of mixed together.
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Chicago is not extremely more diverse compared to Houston.
The OP said nothing about ETHNIC diversity, just "diversity." This whole thread has morphed into a discussion of which city has the most ethnic diversity which isn't necessarily the definition of being "diverse."
To me, "diversity" is about more than just someone's skin color.
At any rate, those stats you gave are interesting, but they point to only skin color. Other than "Hispanic" which is technically a language group and not a race or ethnicity (you can be black or white and still be "Hispanic"), none of those other sub-groups has anything to do with a particular language or country of origin.
So I still say that Chicago is more diverse than Houston because Chicago has dozens of ethnic enclaves from countries all over the world, and those enclaves have been there a long, long time. While much of Houston's ethnic community is 1st or 2nd generation, Chicago's is 3rd and even 4th generation. Just look at O'Hare's flight schedule and see where all those planes are coming from and headed to compared to IAH or even LAX.
Houston has the most diversity of these 3, hands down.
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