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It has always been about impressing girls though...always! Salsa, if not dead, is dying. It's sad but so is the death of beepop. It happens.
LOL, Salsa is dying? where do you live, under a rock? Salsa is still played throughout households of all latinos (Ecuadorians to Ricans) on a daily basis. Stop that don't non-sense. Club music is trash.
Salsa was always an older generation thing... When you were growing up who was it that you heard bumping Gran Combo, Hector Lavoe, Jerry Rivera? It was always the parents and that still is the case... The reason why you don't hear salsa outside anymore is simply due to the fact that PR ghettoes no longer exist... PR's have spread across the city and the country... That doesn't mean we don't listen to salsa anymore... And from what I see heading to church parties and having to chaperone sometimes at the events, most of the new crowd of spanish folk are starting to appreciate salsa as well... Everywhere I go, I see more and more kids learning salsa steps for the parties... The dance itself takes so much more skill than bachata or merengue and these kids wanna learn... Only difference between back then and today is that kids learned how to dance salsa from their parents growing up, now they just learn it at dancing schools across the city...
Nope the Bronx is becoming more Mexican too. What you see with Dominicans is just a shift, but Mexicans are expanding rapidly. I think they are going to be #1 Latino group in city in twenty years which is crazy.
in less than 10 years according to some sources.
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At the 2010 Census, there were 319,263 Mexican Americans living in New York City.[123] In 2009, it was estimated that of the city's Hispanic population, 13.5% was of Mexican origin.[122] Mexicans are the fastest growing group of Hispanic population.[73] Some estimates suggest that Mexicans will surpass both Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in 2023 to become the city’s largest national Latino sub-group, and that Dominicans will surpass Puerto Ricans in 2030 to become the second largest Latino nationality.[122] As of 2011, the Mexican Consulate estimated about 500,000 Mexicans lived in New York City, of whom 35,000 spoke a Mexican indigenous language
I don't think there are any ethnic enclaves left in this country to be honest.
You need to get out of the house more
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