Which City Is More Racially Diverse, Sao Paulo Or San Francisco ?

[Tiger Blood]

18Montclair have you ever been to the favela of Capao Redondo in Sao Paulo ?

[MelismaticEchoes]

Interesting! I would say both are very racially mixed as well as racially diverse.

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[caribny]

Originally Posted by DrEarth

Jeez, these threads about race get old. Who cares. Please tell me why you care which city is more racially diverse.

maybe he enjoys the vitality that ethnically and culturally diverse regions bring.

I mean who is interested in Oslo?

[Gentoo]

San Francisco is not even the most racially diverse in the Bay Area so I would cautiously say, Sao Paulo. Cautiously because I've not been there.

[City Boy Columbus]

Dude sao paulo is very mixed and plus it has the diversity as any American city so I say Sao Paulo too.

[antma robel]

Originally Posted by Tiger Blood

The haves and have nots would be even more blatantly obvious in Sao Paulo than it would in San Francisco.

Look at this pic of Sao Paulo for example.

How sweet

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

And almost 100% speak only Portuguese, they like the same music, eat the same food, have the exact same culture. SF is the opposite--everyone is different.

So Sao Paulo is a melting pot, but San Francisco is a salad bowl.

I lived in both Sao Paulo and I lived in San Francisco.

I didn't find San Francisco being a bunch of differnet people. Sure, to SOME extent. But, generally, you had gays, yuppies, and hippies that would shortly be leaving to the Pacific Northwest or going homeless.

The Asians, Mexicans, and Africans were in SF, but the power of the city lies in the hands of the yuppies and gays. As a person who also lived in Asia, for a long time, I was disappointed to live in SF, and see that Asians in SF seemed to be more on the margins of the city in any political sense. They were just the quiet minority ever present, but ever seemingly silent.

I think among the gay population, there was a lot of racial mixing. I noticed that generally Asians in SF were 3rd or 4th generation, and more Asian for the Asians when it came to dating. Some mixed, but generally they wanted to marry Asian. Actually I was involved with an Asian woman, and got tired of her friends and family telling her that she should be dating Asian as well.

Blacks were super marginalized unless they were gay or yuppie and fit into one of those two groups. But, generally they were living elsewhere in the Bay Area, usually Oakland. At least the AA men were into IR, but not so much the AA women. The Mexicans, seldom dated or married outside of Mexican.

Enough of San Francisco though. When I lived in Sao Paulo, everyone intermarried and dated with everyone else. It went back generations and generations. Additionally, you have one million plus Japanese in Sao Paulo, and a million plus Italians and on and on.

It sounds like you've never lived, and probably never even been to Brazil. However, you do seem to think SF is great, and it is by US standards, but it's no Sao Paulo however.



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(JUST A NOTE ON THIS THREAD: Tiger BLOOD is the OP, I'm Tiger BEER. We're two different posters).