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Boston isn't the most diverse city in the world...but to claim there is no diversity is foolish.
Sure there are lots of white people in the area. There are many Portuguese communities throughout Massachusetts/Rhode Island (especially around Narragansett Bay), along with many Irish and Italian communities. Don't get so caught up on the shade of someone's skin.
C'Mon now T-Mac, all white people are the same.
The other day I was at this Portuguese restaurant and asked the Chef if he had any Bangers and Mash, because hey they must have that on the menu. I was shocked to hear they didn't. Like, they fill out the exact same box in the census as the Irish dudes in Southie, so I figured they would all be the same.
Plus get this! They were speaking some funny language that didn't sound anything like "Irish English". It was weird, I think they were all F'in with me....
White = French, Canadian, Italian, English, British, Polish, German, etc.
Just because Boston is primarily white doesn't mean it's not diverse.
Really? I just just joined this site and noticed quite the oppostie.
The claim was made that metro Boston is not majority white. It most certainly is by the way the Census Bureau measures these things, no matter what the ethnic background may be. Do you think the Boston region has some kind of a lock on these ethnicities?
As far as your last remark, yes, you are new. Stick around a while and you will see the real story a daily basis.
I think Boston has one of the largest, if not the largest, Brazilian communities in the nation. Could be wrong though.
According to this study, about 17% of the American Brazilian population lives in Massachusetts...second behind Florida (22%). As of 2006, an estimated 75,000 Brazilians were living in Massachusetts, making it the fifth largest immigrant community in Mass.
Boston isn't the most diverse city in the world...but to claim there is no diversity is foolish.
Sure there are lots of white people in the area. There are many Portuguese communities throughout Massachusetts/Rhode Island (especially around Narragansett Bay), along with many Irish and Italian communities. Don't get so caught up on the shade of someone's skin.
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Originally Posted by TheCity
White = French, Canadian, Italian, English, British, Polish, German, etc.
Just because Boston is primarily white doesn't mean it's not diverse.
I just joined this site and noticed quite the opposite.
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Originally Posted by Cart24
C'Mon now T-Mac, all white people are the same.
The other day I was at this Portuguese restaurant and asked the Chef if he had any Bangers and Mash, because hey they must have that on the menu. I was shocked to hear they didn't. Like, they fill out the exact same box in the census as the Irish dudes in Southie, so I figured they would all be the same.
Plus get this! They were speaking some funny language that didn't sound anything like "Irish English". It was weird, I think they were all F'in with me....
I don't think johnATL said anything about Boston NOT being diverse or all white people (of different ethnicities) being the same or anything of the sort. He was responding to someone else laughing at the idea of Boston's MSA having a white majority (which is statistically true--no value judgments being made).
If anything, pick on whoever it was that tried to laugh at someone else for saying something true and then trying to shunt the conversation into something else.
I could care less if a place is majority [insert race here], but I find the Boston area to be quite diverse. The only thing I've really noticed is that more than any other city I've been too, ethnic groups tend to be separated here. The people and the cultures are here, but many people, even some metro area residents, will never see it. To get down home BBQ, Mexican or other Latin foods, or encounter people from these areas (when not on the T) I usually find myself outside the inner city, in favor of places like East Boston, Somerville, even Cambridge.
A question to ask is, what good is the diversity of a population when the culture of the population is more inaccessible (especially for tourists)? Most people I know only visit East Boston to go to the airport. It's really one of the few things that I've come to dislike about Boston, but then what can you do when the inner city is so cost prohibitive?
I could care less if a place is majority [insert race here], but I find the Boston area to be quite diverse. The only thing I've really noticed is that more than any other city I've been too, ethnic groups tend to be separated here. The people and the cultures are here, but many people, even some metro area residents, will never see it. To get down home BBQ, Mexican or other Latin foods, or encounter people from these areas (when not on the T) I usually find myself outside the inner city, in favor of places like East Boston, Somerville, even Cambridge.
A question to ask is, what good is the diversity of a population when the culture of the population is more inaccessible (especially for tourists)? Most people I know only visit East Boston to go to the airport. It's really one of the few things that I've come to dislike about Boston, but then what can you do when the inner city is so cost prohibitive?
You force everyone to breed. It's the only viable thing to do. I'm game.
I could care less if a place is majority [insert race here], but I find the Boston area to be quite diverse. The only thing I've really noticed is that more than any other city I've been too, ethnic groups tend to be separated here. The people and the cultures are here, but many people, even some metro area residents, will never see it. To get down home BBQ, Mexican or other Latin foods, or encounter people from these areas (when not on the T) I usually find myself outside the inner city, in favor of places like East Boston, Somerville, even Cambridge.
A question to ask is, what good is the diversity of a population when the culture of the population is more inaccessible (especially for tourists)? Most people I know only visit East Boston to go to the airport. It's really one of the few things that I've come to dislike about Boston, but then what can you do when the inner city is so cost prohibitive?
Youre right to some extent. But other than in New York City, where is that not generally the case? Even there many of the ethnic enclaves of some of the more recent immigrant groups are not in Manhattan.
The answer to your question is that it isnt good for tourists, but it is for residents.
On the flipside though, I would counter by saying that Chinatown is directly next to Boston common, the North End is touristy (though possibly no longer really ethnic).
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