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#3 Omaha, Nebraska

Part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska. Omaha has been racially and ethnically diverse since its founding and continues to boast a rich cultural background. With diversification in several industries including banking, insurance, telecommunications, architecture/construction, and transpiration, Omaha's economy has grown dramatically since the 1990's.

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[putz85]

75% white culturally diverse 13% percent black. Not very culturally diverse.

[Dave1215]

This whole area grew throught immigration and those first generation communities have much influence on Omaha's makeup, its history, and its businesses - immigration of the polish, irish, italian, hispanic - due to the railroad and stockyards.... its one of the higher population for sudenese immigrants in the US and quite a few asian/vietnamese immigrated here as well. Cultral diversity is much much more than just a black/white statistic. International

[kdbrich]

There are more cultural groups than black and white.

I work with a fairly diverse group of people. I remember at one point I stood in a group of people. Looking around me, there was a black man, a Chinese woman, an Indian man and Indian woman (country of India), and me, a white guy.

We are more diverse than you might think.

[Go Ne]

Originally Posted by putz85

75% white culturally diverse 13% percent black. Not very culturally diverse.

White and Black are not cultures in anyway. We have massive German, Polish and Norwegian influences, plus we have a Little Italy, I think we might have a Korean Town somewhere and there are Hispanics and tons of people from Darfur.

[mattpoulsen]

Putz,

What percentage of the U.S. population is black? As of 2006, try about 12.4%. Furthermore, in the same year there were approximately 74% that were white.

So, i would say Omaha is right on par with the actual absolute nation wide percentage of whites to blacks. We are nearly exactly as "diverse" as the nation as a whole.

You can't have a population of 50% African-Americans in every city and state when the total nation wide percentage is only about 12%.

Would you like to misrepresent some more numbers?

[buffy888]

Originally Posted by putz85

75% white culturally diverse 13% percent black. Not very culturally diverse.

If discussing true diversity, why would you only list the figures for 2 groups of people? Classes I took in college which dealt with cultural diversity (Theories of Multicultural Pluralism, Teaching in the Culturally Diverse Classroom, etc.) certainly did not discuss only whites and blacks.

Throughout its history, Omaha has consisted of a variety of ethnic groups. Especially in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, there was diversity even among the broader category of "white" - Bohemian/Czeck, Polish, German, Irish, etc. Today Omaha continues to have a variety of more broadly defined groups (white, black, and Hispanic are the three largest groups). While it currently reflects the racial distributions of our country as a whole, I think the percentages will continue to shift in the future as they will throughout the United States.

Originally Posted by Go Ne

White and Black are not cultures in anyway. We have massive German, Polish and Norwegian influences, plus we have a Little Italy, I think we might have a Korean Town somewhere and there are Hispanics and tons of people from Darfur.

Just FYI that most Sudanese in Omaha are actually from South (Southern) Sudan rather than Darfur. At the school where I taught in Omaha, about 30% of our students were from Sudan; the majority were from either the Nuer or Dinka tribes, although I know other groups from Southern Sudan are represented in Omaha as well.