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Maybe no state is like that but my block was like that so are some neighborhoods. I had Italian, Philipino, Puerto Rican, Ecuadorians, Irish, African American, Guyanese, Jamaican, Dominican, Egyptian etc. all with in a short walk on my block of where I lived in the Heights.
That's what i meant when i said state.. most towns in all states are not "living among eachother" diverse. If you're referring to HH then yea i wouldn't doubt it. Hispanics and Whites live among together there just fine... the black population is very low though. But you are talking about a block.
Parts of Maywood is like that too.
Hackensack is kind of like that, but it's very segregated for the most part.
Englewood is the most segregated town in NJ, IMO
That's what i meant when i said state.. most towns in all states are not "living among eachother" diverse. If you're referring to HH then yea i wouldn't doubt it. Hispanics and Whites live among together there just fine... the black population is very low though. But you are talking about a block.
Parts of Maywood is like that too.
Hackensack is kind of like that, but it's very segregated for the most part.
Englewood is the most segregated town in NJ, IMO
No, I was talking about Jersey City Heights I figured people would see my sn and know where I was talking about. I forgot every one isn't familiar with the neighborhoods of Jersey City.
Kids learn it from adults- There's a bunch of spanish girls in my nursing class that don't socialize with anyone but the spanish girls- then they all talk in their language at break time. "HELLO"! Why not make friends with everyone in the class, why make others feel as though they don't belong ... I tend to wonder if they are really that ignorant, or inconsiderate, or they just don't know any better.
No, I was talking about Jersey City Heights I figured people would see my sn and know where I was talking about. I forgot every one isn't familiar with the neighborhoods of Jersey City.
OO yea, i'm familiar with JC, i lived there when i went to college.. i feel stupid now... but yes, JC heights is one of the most diverse places in the country, JC as a whole is really.
"Being lazy"? Why do people feel it's necessary to make a conscious effort to have a mixed bag of friends? As several people have mentioned above, IMO, it's about common interests- not about common skin color or common ethnicity. My kids have friends who are white, black and asian, as do my wife and I- we didn't actively work to develop that blend of friends- it just happened.
Well Bob, you are idealistic. I should be running a mile a day and eating lots of vegetable, but I am being lazy just eating my microwave dinner. I am not endorsing their laziness, I am merely describing a fact. You know what I mean?
People I know in Jersey - their grandparents (same ethnicity, as they don't know a lot of English) hang out with each other for all the holidays, so their kids (who are adults now and all American born) hang out with each other - and that's all they do - hanging out with the same people for the last 40 years, and so are their kids, since their children have nothing else to do every holiday. It's tough to break into their circle, and even I am married into it I am still being treated as an outsider, although I am the same ethnicity and speak their language. It's just the way people is, physics calls it "inertia". (For the record I do have different friends.)
I really don't think it's idealistic at all.
That's the way it is for most people.
I think it's a challenge just to meet people in certain types of environments- in those cases some people just don't bother.
I personally don't come from the type of life where you hang with people for 40 plus years.
You should have tried going away to college at 18.
Just to add - I don't think hanging out with people of different races than you is some type of goal you should be trying to actively achieve. Just live your life, treat everyone fairly and the pieces will fall where they may. If that means being friends with people who look like you, great. If it means being friends with people who look different than you, that's cool too.
We all get so hung up on this stuff sometimes. Sometimes everyone has to take a step back and ask why.
Just to add - I don't think hanging out with people of different races than you is some type of goal you should be trying to actively achieve. Just live your life, treat everyone fairly and the pieces will fall where they may. If that means being friends with people who look like you, great. If it means being friends with people who look different than you, that's cool too.
We all get so hung up on this stuff sometimes. Sometimes everyone has to take a step back and ask why.
I agree.
As a matter of fact, in where I come from - the white folks never hang out with the locals - the French, the Canadian, the American, the British...etc., except for the missionaries, NONE of them would send their kids to local schools, and many of them don't know a word of local dialect. Are they racist? No. Most of them I encounter are very super-friendly. They are already in a foreign place and they have reached out to the world more than many people do.
I think the same goes for ethnic minorities in Jersey. They are foreigners here, and deal with different people at work. On the weekend can they be lazy and just speak their own language, eat their own food and watch a few their homeland soccer games and hang out with their hometown buddies? Why not. And if you wonder and ask them "if I can come to your daughter's birthday party", I bet most of them would gladly invite you. Most of them are just shy. We are not here to tell them how to live their lives.
Sure, but you'll have to leave now to make it to dinner tomorrow- we live in GA now...lol
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i feel stupid now... but yes, JC heights is one of the most diverse places in the country, JC as a whole is really.
