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This list makes the most sense. You have to factor in the metro area of a particular city, and not just the city itself. I don't necessarily consider a city/metro area diverse because it has a large number of one minority ethnic group; i.e., San Antonio (lived there for 4 years and loved it) isn't diverse simply because it has a majority of its residents with a Mexican-American background, it just makes it a majority-M/A metro area. Same with Detroit and African-Americans. I currently live in the D.C. metro area, which is considered on the list above at #2, and rightfully so. We have every conceivable ethnic group represented in large numbers here, most of whom don't congregate in 'neighborhoods' (like NY), but live all over the metro area, mostly in the suburbs. The following ethnic groups have a sizable presence in the D.C. metro area (and I'll probably forget a few):
Ethiopians
Guatamalans
Salvadorans
Russians
Koreans
Vietnamese
Chinese
Thais
Mongolians (no kidding)
Peruvians
Bolivians
Jamaicans
Ukrainians
Bulgarians
English
Irish
Polish
Columbians
Nigerians
Ghanaians
Phillipinos
Somalis
Egyptians
Moroccans
Greeks
Lebanese
Turks
Armenians
Brazilians
Venezuelans
Cubans
Mexicans
Indians
Pakistanis
Bengalis
Nepalese
Iraqis
Afghanis
Persians
Palestinians
Saudis
The Baltic States (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia)
The Balkans (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, etc.)
Romanians
Czechs
Smaller, but still significant numbers of people from:
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Scandanavia (especially Norway)
South Africa
Australia
Trinidad/Tobago
St. Kitts
Haiti
Liberia
Eritrea
Cambodia
Myanmar (Burma)
Honduras
Guyana
Dominican Republic
Canada
Japan
Ecuador
Hungary
Slovakia
These are all immigrant groups, and I haven't mentioned that native born American ethnic groups also reside here but the area is so international that, for example, an African-American, Italian-American or an Irish-American isn't even figured into the local 'diversity' equation----we're just considered "American" here.
How could the Queens have more diversity than Miami ,LA ,Toronto ,SF or Houston?
Queens, pound for pound, is probably the most diverse place on the planet. It's definitely more diverse than all the places you listed.
I mean, some you listed, like Miami, have a dominant ethnic background (Latin American, esp. Carribean Latin). Queens has nothing remotely close to a dominant background.
It has big concentrations of all kinds of little known groups, from Bukharan Jews (largest community outside of Tajikistan), to Indio Ecuadorians (largest community outside of Ecuador) to Nepalese (largest community in the Americas) to Guyanese (largest community outside of Guyana). Queens is crazy diverse.
Factor in the metro and indeed Toronto and SF are incredibly diverse. I'd say it's NYC, LA, SF, Toronto... Sacramento is incredibly diverse but the numbers are smaller than these huge metros. There's something said about the density and shear number of ethnicities in a compact area which makes it feel even more diverse than it may actually be. This is why Toronto and London feel way more diverse than Sacramento IMO.
What communities exist in Houston that aren't found in say, L.A.? It's pretty easy to think of large groups in L.A. that don't have much of a presence in Houston, but not the other way around.
No it isn't. I'm almost certain the methodology is the "balance" between the "big 4" ethno-racial groups: whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians. It doesn't measure diversity of the immigrant population or diversity within these 4 categories. It's nonsense like this that leads many to erroneously believe that places like Oakland and Sacramento are more diverse than London!
New York's Black population is heavily Caribbean, while L.A. is almost all African American. L.A.'s Hispanic population is dominated by Mexicans, while in New York the two leading Hispanic groups - Puerto Ricans and Dominicans only make up about half the Hispanic population. New York's white population is more diverse than L.A.'s - more "white ethnics" like Italians and more European-born in the population, though the large Armenian population in L.A. certainly is unparalleled elsewhere and adds to its diversity. The Asian populations in both cities are very diverse, although L.A. has more Filipinos, Koreans and Vietnamese while New York has far more South Asians. Indeed, it's strange that South Asians are lumped in with East Asians.
Armenian being "White ethnic" is arguable...many Armenians I know consider themselves mixed or Asian, since that part of the world has been conquered by many different empires (Persian, Russian, Mongol, etc) and racially mixed up throughout history.
Plus, LA does have many "White ethnics". A lot of Russian people moving there straight from Russia, and other Eastern Europeans coming there as well.
Premise doesn't make sense. There's no clear cut boundary between Toronto and some of the other metros (most importantly LA) since you can measure diversity in many ways such as sheer size of so and so number of different communities (obviously goes to LA).
An argument for NYC's exclusion might make sense, but that's about it.
48 percent Foreign Born - 49 percent identified as Vis Min and healthy representation from a variety of ethnicities and over 140 languages/dialects spoken. Plus over 30 percent of T.O's residents no speaky English or French at home.
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