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I'm very connected to the Philadelphia Irish community but feel ethnic identity (even if specific to your region) is a separate thing from regional identity.
Alicia Keys is close to representing the quintessential New Yorker from an ethnicity standpoint.
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Music star Alicia Auguello Cook, better known as Alicia Keys, was born on January 25, 1981 in Manhattan, New York City. She is of mixed ancestry and ethnicity. Her father, Craig Cook, is a former flight attendant of African American and Jamaican extraction, while her mother, Teresa Augello, a former paralegal and part-time actress, is of Italian, Scottish and Irish background.
I'm Polish American. Polish Americans while can be found in many places, have a particularly strong presence not only in Chicago, but other Great Lakes cities. Although Chicago obviously stands out from these other cities, on a small neighborhood basis, as well as a wider metropolitan region there are similarities. (even if the urban core are nothing alike). Polish Wedding ('97) was filmed and set in Hamtramck, MI which looks like any Polish neighborhood in Chicago.
If you come from Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Hamtramck (Detroit enclave), or Milwaukee there is a large church called “Saint Stanislaus,” or “Saint Hedwig,” within one block of your childhood home (that is, unless you’re one of those suburban exiles, in which case the church is within one block of your babcia’s house!)
Guess so. I do consider my ethnic heritage to be Caribbean/West Indian, broadly speaking. I consider myself a Northern Virginian and associate myself with the DMV in general. There's a small but significant WI descended population in the area that is quite successful.
Raised in Hell's Kitchen too. She really is the ultimate New Yorker.
She's missing the Italian.
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