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Check out Google maps. They don't even recognize ave of the Puerto Rico. They have graham as via vespucci all the way down to flushing ave. Should try to get that changed.
It's just another discrimination tactics against Puertoricans. We've been going though it for decades in NYC.
checkmatechamp13: For starters, that only applies to the households who actually get visited by a census worker. Most of the households fill the form out themselves, and if they want to put Puerto Rican down in any category (whether it's the racial category, or the ancestry category), they can put Puerto Rican.
Second of all, they have a category for ancestry/nationality, and the census worker asks if they have any ancestry they'd like to put down.
The census worker comes to their door and goes through the form with them:
How many people are living here? Can you tell me their names? Alright, for person one, what's their race, ethnic background (Hispanic or non-Hispanic), and do they have any ancestry they'd like to report? Same thing for person 2, 3, 4, etc.
hablodecorazon2013: What proof could you bring to the thread that most of the Puertorican households fill out the U.S. Census form themselves?
What's the violation? Bicycle violations? Do you think it was great when the Italians were less than welcoming when the Puerto Ricans first moved in? When Puerto Ricans move to a new neighborhood, is the best thing to do for that community is to fight until they drop dead because of some imagined violation? I don't understand this kind of mentality. It seems stupid and a sure way to keep your own community down by being so insular.
Threatening to take down our street sign is like violating our flag which represents our nation. The Hipsters should just move to another neighborhood if they can't stand Puertorican music, not threaten to humiliate us within our own community. Italians in East Williamsburg have nothing to do with this problem, so I will not comment anything about them. It will not keep our community down to fight for our reputation and establishment, it will be an honor. If you was to have your Albanian flag on a street sign where you have a reputable and established community and some rebellious Hipsters set it on fire because they don't like your culture, wouldn't your community fight back as well?
If not Puerto Ricans being the majority in E. Williamsburg, is it the Orthodox Jews? Other Hispanuc groups? I've driven on Bway between Flushing Ave and the East River, and I see Hispanics, Jews & black people (Bed Stuy is close).
Threatening to take down our street sign is like violating our flag which represents our nation. The Hipsters should just move to another neighborhood if they can't stand Puertorican music, not threaten to humiliate us within our own community. Italians in East Williamsburg have nothing to do with this problem, so I will not comment anything about them. It will not keep our community down to fight for our reputation and establishment, it will be an honor. If you was to have your Albanian flag on a street sign where you have a reputable and established community and some rebellious Hipsters set it on fire because they don't like your culture, wouldn't your community fight back as well?
It's not the hipsters doing it--it's the real estate developers. Those are actually two different groups of people. Italians in East Williamsburg were there earlier and some didn't like it when Puerto Ricans first moved in--do you think they should have been more aggressive in trying to make things harder for their new neighbors back then?
Your scenario of rebellious (rebellious? do you even know what the word means?) hipsters is too silly. The hipsters are setting Puerto Rican flags on fire on streets signs on fire all around the community? Even if they did do so to the Armenian flag, I'd prefer everything went through the court of law and the individuals responsible were put on trial rather than an entire group of people (because that would be ridiculous and racist--sort of the kind of ridiculousness where someone like Ariel Castro is Puerto Rican with a Puerto Rican flag waving outside his house, therefore we should claim all Puerto Ricans are monstrous kidnapping rapists--sounds ridiculous right?).
Threatening to take down our street sign is like violating our flag which represents our nation. The Hipsters should just move to another neighborhood if they can't stand Puertorican music, not threaten to humiliate us within our own community. Italians in East Williamsburg have nothing to do with this problem, so I will not comment anything about them. It will not keep our community down to fight for our reputation and establishment, it will be an honor. If you was to have your Albanian flag on a street sign where you have a reputable and established community and some rebellious Hipsters set it on fire because they don't like your culture, wouldn't your community fight back as well?
I seriously doubt most of the Puerto Ricans in East Williamsburg are property owners, so its not their/your community at all. There will be a lot less there as the cuts go through to NYCHA and Section 8.
It's the Hipsters that us Puertoricans have problems with because they're trying to violate our street (Graham Avenue AKA Avenue of Puertorico) and we're not having any other community violating ours, so we're gonna fight for what's ours till we drop dead and that's never. Peace..
Rather than fighting hipsters in the streets, maybe welcome them into your heritage by opening up more businesses that can profit off of them. When a hipster, yuppy, transplant, or a non-Puerto Rican thinks of Graham ave, it should be branded in their minds of a place to get good Puerto Rican cuisine, a cortadito, etc...
If not Puerto Ricans being the majority in E. Williamsburg, is it the Orthodox Jews? Other Hispanuc groups? I've driven on Bway between Flushing Ave and the East River, and I see Hispanics, Jews & black people (Bed Stuy is close).
Rather than fighting hipsters in the streets, maybe welcome them into your heritage by opening up more businesses that can profit off of them. When a hipster, yuppy, transplant, or a non-Puerto Rican thinks of Graham ave, it should be branded in their minds of a place to get good Puerto Rican cuisine, a cortadito, etc...
Hipsters have a divide and conquer mentality. They are not in East Williamsburg to be welcomed as tenants, neighbors and consumers, they are in East Williamsburg to divide and conquer only for themselves (They're trying to convert East Williamsburg into a Hipster Headquarters, 99.9% population).
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