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I'm looking for recommendations on cities/areas with a nice level of diversity- areas where people of different groups (racial/ethnic) don't just coexist peacefully but also really form a community together. Areas to check out?
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I'm looking for recommendations on cities/areas with a nice level of diversity- areas where people of different groups (racial/ethnic) don't just coexist peacefully but also really form a community together. Areas to check out?
I read somewhere Sacramento is reportedly diverse with, relatively, low tension. Santa Cruz, California comes out as fairly integrated by the "dissimilarity index." Also some Hawaiian cities, but forums here indicate they have more Hawaiian/non-Native tension than people think. Although I take things forumites say with a pinch of salt.
Also, even though this might sound counter-intuitive, some of the Southern cities are said to have a good deal of integration with low tension. In particular some of the cities of North Carolina looked to be fairly integrated going by the "dissimilarity index" and I think Virginia also has some diverse/friendly towns. I believe Roanoke had a black Republican mayor during the entire 1980s, which doesn't imply a lack of racial hostility (they might have a high amount for all I know) but was used by the New Yorker as an example of contemporary Southern Republicans embracing black leadership.
I'm looking for recommendations on cities/areas with a nice level of diversity- areas where people of different groups (racial/ethnic) don't just coexist peacefully but also really form a community together. Areas to check out?
Honolulu, Hawaii! It's one of the most ethnically diverse places in the world. Like I said in another thread, I grew up here thinking that racism didn't exist anymore and was something you read in the history books. When I was a kid, I never really thought of people by their ethnicities. Racism does exist here, but it's more passive. However, I would say Hawaii's ahead of most of the world in terms of how people of different ethnicities live together in the same community.
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