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I don't understand why that's hard to believe. I do not engage in political and/or religious discussions with most people. If someone starts up, I change the topic. That being said, I've lived where I live now for five years and I probably have very little in common with my neighbors---I've never had ANYONE ask me about my ideology or leanings and I have no idea what anyone thinks. The few things I might know about my neighbors would be related to building complaints, professions, their pets, etc.
Where I have had people bring up politics and religion would be at work, which I hate. I do not live near anyone I work with, so that doesn't relate to this.
Like I said, I just want to be where you do your thing and I do mine. I also think there are a lot of wealthier people in NYC who might align with a more of a libertarian outlook but don't actually use that word.
What I was trying to say is that people do seem to care who their neighbors are and whether they have things in common with them. I don't know how many threads over the years have been white person moving to whatever neighborhood, or black person moving to whatever neighborhood, which would seem to matter less than ideology. It all of a sudden seemed strange that the question was never even asked considering all the other things that have been brought up.
I am a South American immigrant, brown and indigenous looking, who has been in NYC almost 3 decades. I immigrated by gaining admission and a stipend from a PhD program in Computer Science. I have been making well into 6 figures for quite a while.
Though I don’t live in Parkchester –I live in Brooklyn Heights- it seems like I would be one of those considered by elnrgby as a civilized minority. In my experience when you *qualify* some group with a positive adjective it does indicate, like yodel said somewhere before, that it insinuates the usual status for that group is something negative. When you talk about ‘civilized minorities’, the insinuation is that minorities are usually uncivilized. That is certainly what it sounds like to me, and throughout this topic, elnrgby’s discourse *has* sounded condescending towards minorities. Just thought it would be useful to have input from one of those ‘civilized minority’ individuals.
Considering that I am a female immigrant from South-Eastern Europe (ie, basically a minority myself), does that mean I have been condescending of myself?
1/2 of my family is/was from Romania. They're all white. There is a difference. I'm not trying to attack you, but I'm being honest, it sounds offensive.
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Reason: Edited - most of my Romanian relatives aren't alive anymore :(
I don't have just EE roots, I have a very thick EE accent (which people consider the same or more "different" than skin color). Okay folks, I won't participate in this any more. You can have your porn-fest of racially prurient stuff without me.
I don't have just EE roots, I have a very thick EE accent (which people consider the same or more "different" than skin color). Okay folks, I won't participate in this any more. You can have your porn-fest of racially prurient stuff without me.
Nobody cares about that either. A Hispanic person born in the US is more likely to be discriminated than you, that's just how things are.
Very few conservatives would want to live in an urban Bronx neighborhood. NYC as a city is barely conservative in general, the only neighborhoods that are conservative are Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, Italian-American neighborhoods, and to some extent Russian neighborhoods . I doubt any of these would be appealing to your friend.
My friend is probably a special case, but no, in general conservatives don't seem to want to move to urban Bronx neighborhoods (except for 1). I don't think conservatives tend to be gentrifiers either for whatever it's worth.
My friend is probably a special case, but no, in general conservatives don't seem to want to move to urban Bronx neighborhoods (except for 1). I don't think conservatives tend to be gentrifiers either for whatever it's worth.
I don't think conservatives in general like urbanity. Every major city I can think of is left leaning.
I don't think conservatives in general like urbanity. Every major city I can think of is left leaning.
They arw the minority, but they're here (lots on citydata too.)
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