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Originally Posted by BlakeJones
I think Brooklyn is very very ethnic, maybe about the same as Queens. The difference is the variety of different cultures with a critical mass
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Right, that's what I was just judging on and why I put the Bronx behind Manhattan. I think we're arguing the same thing for the criteria, but might have differing opinions on the magnitude of difference between the two boroughs.
I think people may be overlooking the sizable Eastern European, Caucasus, and Central Asian communities that Brooklyn seems to be home to a much larger degree with the larger Russophone sphere there. There's also a large Arabic-speaking sphere in Brooklyn. Queens has some of this, but to a lesser extent. Queens has the greater number of East, Southeast, and South Asian enclaves and Latin American one which isn't to say Brooklyn doesn't have these in large numbers especially seeing Sunset Park's Chinatown sprout so many of its own satellite chinatowns, but just not as much. They sort of trade horses on a lot different categories, but I'm pretty sure it works out with Queens having more enclaves of a certain size.
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