Is NYC or White or Ethnic City? (New York, York: fit in, high school)

[Miss J 74]

Why is this even relevant or remotely important? Or was this started to merely incite controversy? SMH

[NooYowkur81]

NYC has always been very different from the rest of the U.S.A. Even the dominant "White cultures" (Italian, Irish, Jewish) here were considered different from the mainstream of the U.S.A. So yeah it's always been more ethnic...

[nykiddo718718]

Ethnic or White, where do these ideas come from?

NYC is super diverse, all kinds of people with different ways of life even within the same neighborhoods.

Also for the record, not all non-Whites are "Ethnic", whatever that's supposed to mean. The White population in NYC is very sizeable when compared to most cities. There are also many Hispanic Whites.

[shmacked]

NYC is extremely diverse but at the same time somewhat segregated. Many neighborhoods are diverse but at the same time many other neighborhoods hold just one or two races as majority (usually just black and hispanics).

[nykiddo718718]

Originally Posted by shmacked

NYC is extremely diverse but at the same time somewhat segregated. Many neighborhoods are diverse but at the same time many other neighborhoods hold just one or two races as majority (usually just black and hispanics).

Segregation in NYC is nothing like I have seen in other cities in the USA.

For one you will find all kinds of people in every neighborhood. Maybe not in large numbers, but you will see them. Especially these days with the high housing cost throughout. Segregation only seems to be increasing economically.

[wawaweewa]

Originally Posted by shmacked

NYC is extremely diverse but at the same time somewhat segregated. Many neighborhoods are diverse but at the same time many other neighborhoods hold just one or two races as majority (usually just black and hispanics).

Somewhat segregated?

I'd argue (and could prove) that NYC is highly segregated.

[whitlock]

6 train from Manhattan to Mott Haven makes nine stops between E59th and Brook Avenue. When you enter you are in the seventh richest congressional district in the nation when you leave some 18-minutes later you are in the poorest.

[checkmatechamp13]

Originally Posted by wawaweewa

Somewhat segregated?

I'd argue (and could prove) that NYC is highly segregated.

It depends on how you define "segregated". Is an area that's 60% Hispanic and 40% Black considered segregated? If so, then yes, we're pretty segregated.

The thing about NYC is that practically every neighborhood has a small Hispanic population (though in some areas, they have a small Asian population instead). There are very few areas that are 90% White or 90% Black. For instance, if East NY were in the Rust Belt, it would probably be something like 95% Black, but in NYC, it's more like 70% Black and 30% Hispanic (of course, with some Whites and Asians here and there, and with a small population from Bangledesh in the City Line section).

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey

What makes NYC so unique is that it has equal representation. It has the yuppie and hipster representation, which is portrayed in movies and sitcoms. Friends, Seinfeld, Sex and The City, etc. On the other hand, NYC also touts street and hood persona in which we have witnessed in popular media. Hip-hop and other "hood" movies show the other side of NYC.

So what is the consensus?

You can't poll away the facts.

According to the 2010 census NYC is 33% White,28% Hispanic,26% Black and 13% asian.

How could anyone think NY is a "white" city with only a 33% white population?

[Bronxguyanese]

White native new yorkers are a different beast from the suburban white kids who flock to Nyc after college. Also nyc has always been a clickish you against them type of city for the past 2 centuries. Everyone here is ethnic, you can be black but what type of black African, African American or Afro Anglo Caribbean and less relevant Afro Latino. Your Asian but what type, south, south east or east Asian and then what country. Whites in nyc has always been ethnic, Italians, polish, Russians, Greeks, Serbs, Albanians, Irish, levantines and the jews all sets themselves apart from general white suburbia culturally. Alsso nyc has always been different from rest of America, only until after September eleven that Americans started to embrace nyc and new yorkers started to embrace America. The average American still believes north Brooklyn, south Bronx and Harlem is a dangerous place.