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Unless asians, whites, and latinos, participated in the 1960's riots, your comment is basically way off. 1990's riots were a whole different ballgame, which also involved the paradigm of Latino vs white, anti conformist(sublime made a song about "participating in anarchy" when making a song about the riots) vs establishment, korean vs black, etc.
It started out as minority VS Majority then as it started to ruin areas of the city it turned to complete chaos.
It started out as minority VS Majority then as it started to ruin areas of the city it turned to complete chaos.
Not at all. There was a huge underlying tension with Rodney King. The latasha Harlins murder was what turned the black community against the Koreans. It was the straw that broke the camels back, and relations have never recovered.
There was also of course huge latino white tension in the early 1990's as La's demographics started to change dramaticaclly. Latinos at that time held very little political power but represented a huge chunk of the population. They were getting bullied around pretty good too by the Good Old Boy system La had at that time.
Of course we can not for get the LAPD rampart scandal either...
Houston and Dallas are stepping up their efforts in cordial race relations and genuine integration, but I would not say Atlanta...that is unless you're able to play the role of "acting black" and "staying in your place." It isn't known as the "black mecca" and "rap capital" for nothing.
Heh, no. SF is 'whiter' than LA for sure and I'm pretty sure than NYC or Chicago. Where are you getting your info?
You're right, I was wrong. I looked at the census bureau data on the Wiki's for SF and LA... the first paragraph lists LA as being 49.8% white as opposed to SF being 48.5% white but that number includes white hispanics. The non-hispanic white percentage is actually 28.7%.
Latinos still struggle way more than Asians do. Yes, Asians struggle in the US, but so do white people, doesn't make the Asian struggle equal to what a real minority has to go through in the United States everyday.
If anything, Asians are the "realest" minority... they make up a whopping 5% of the total US population.
And is there a reason you collectively group Asians? Nobody does that for blacks... everybody knows that African immigrants are statistically the most educated and most successful on average in the US. There's a world of difference between the current situation for Chinese and Indians in the US vs. the current situation for SE Asians. There's also a reason for that... Cambodia itself is recovering from its civil war and Vietnam was in the same predicament up until very recently. A lot of the immigrants coming from those countries - particularly the poor - are bringing rampant drug use, PTSD, illiteracy, etc. with them from the war and their kids often have to fend for themselves.
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Do cops stop Chinese people nowadays for no reason?
Do Japanese people get randomly thrown in jail for no reason?
Are Koreans disproportinately poor?
You'll get an idea where I'm going with this.
If they live in the hood they do.
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There's a reason why most people in the US think San Francisco is a majority white city.
SF is a minority majority white city, and that has absolutely nothing to do with the Asian population.
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Was there something false about what I said? I'm just speaking from my experiences dealing with Blacks and Latinos vs. Asians.
Do you actually know any asian people personally, i.e. people you've let into your house and you to theirs?
I'm not sure that any city would be number one. I think plenty of the cities who like to proclaim themselves so tolerant and accepting see diversity as a novelty and I think the others that are genuinely accepting are equally as accepting as each other.
Maybe New York in parts. Manhattan is probably the most tolerant, diverse part of a city in the US I would think.
I hate the word 'tolerance' when describing how people get along because it implies to me that you begrudgingly put up with something.
What's the word for celebrate andvehemently defend the right of others to exist and have a place at the table, on equal footing with everyone else regardless of their race & ethnicity? Because that's describes Oakland in my experience.
"Tolerance" doesnt really fit the bill.
This is why we have such a huge swath of the city that has no racial majority, areas from the wealthy hills to the middle class areas and poor areas all have huge enclaves of integration.
Of all the cities I’ve lived in (Houston, Dallas, LA, Chicago, and DC), Houston is the most racially/ethnically progressive IMO.
It’s ironically the least progressive on other issues though.
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