North lake shore - walking trails - safety for Indians? (Chicago: neighborhoods, income)

[tiyakhambadkone]

How safe is it for Indians (especially old people who can be very well identified as Indian origin people) to walk on Lincoln Park trails near the lake in the morning or evening?

[Maintainschaos]

I'm not sure why you would be any less safe identified as Indian or any other ethnicity, but it's perfectly safe. You'll have more difficulty avoiding fair-weather cyclists than anything else.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by Maintainschaos

I'm not sure why you would be any less safe identified as Indian or any other ethnicity, but it's perfectly safe. You'll have more difficulty avoiding fair-weather cyclists than anything else.

This. Yeah, America in general can be racist to Indians, but I don't think Indians have any more to fear in Lincoln Park than anyone else. Which is to say, not much to fear. I know why you ask, but most of the people in Lincoln Park probably work with Indians at their office. Chicago is no more racist than any other big American city and it has a sizable South Asian population so most people wouldn't even bat an eyelash at seeing an Indian.

[TBideon]

This is one of the more retarded posts we've had.

[flamadiddle]

If you're Apache, Sioux or Comanche there could be trouble. Especially if you ride your horse in Lincoln Park. j/k

Nah, Indians (American or Asian) are not a target of discrimination in that area.

[glass_of_merlot]

just bring bow and arrow and you be fine

[Alacran]

I don't think this post is dumb.
There's plenty of neighborhoods i feel unwelcomed.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by Alacran

I don't think this post is dumb.
There's plenty of neighborhoods i feel unwelcomed.

If you are of East Indian heritage and feel "unwelcome" it would be interesting to know where / why. Nearly every workplace in Chicago or the suburbs that I've been in over the past two decades has had large numbers of skilled and respected employees of East Indian heritage that are involved in all the social events of the office. Are you suggesting this does not translate over into living conditions in parts of Chicago that would otherwise to "welcoming" to other traditional office workers?

Mind you, I would agree that there are parts of Chicago where traditional professional type workers might feel "unsafe" because they'd be seen as higher income "targets" of street criminals, but this is largely a functional of different economic strata, not primarily race...

[jvr789]

As someone else alluded to the most dangerous thing on the lakeshore path in that area of Chicago will be making sure you don't get hit by a cyclist. And they don't care what color or nationality you are. They just don't want to stop/slow down so you just have to be on the lookout for them and get out of the way if needed. If anything, wearing traditional Indiana garb like a Sari would probably be of benefit b/c you would be hard for the cyclist to miss.

All that being said, after dark I don't think it is a good idea to walk on those paths b/c it is the city and muggings/etc can happen anywhere and the amount of folks on the paths goes down significantly as the sun goes down.

[MarianRavenwood]

I've never noticed anyone on the Lakefront path taking any notice of anyone's skin color or ethnicity, much less making an issue of it.