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It seems as more and more towns/ villages are made of children from different natinalities. Mostly gone are the days where a lot of us could say we were 100% Italian or Irish or whatever.
Eastchsester has a sizable Italian population, but there are also Irish, Anglos, Asian, etc.
At the end of the day, I don't think anyone really pays much attention to which nationality is is that person over there. Like another poster said: We are Americans and are tolerant of one another.
I am going to take a guess and say 20 percent Irish?
XTiberiusx- I agree that is how most of America is- less so in the Northeast- but generally there are few places where you find most of the population to be 100% of any one background. BUT- there are exceptions and I am trying to figure out if Eastchester is still one of them (good or bad). Like I said- when my friends and family were growing up there in the 80's and 90's they felt very excluded not being Italian Americans. From what I am hearing- it is a bit more mixed than it once was, but still very Italian dominated.
It's not Italian dominated. Italians are probably the largest ethnic group, but it's not like they have secret societies that have weekly meetings trying to figure out how they can dominate the other ethnicities in the town.
Coming from a nearby village, and attending high school with many Eastchester residents, I 100% concur the stereotype of Italian-Eastchester is outdated. Being an American citizen/ New York Resident with a mix of both Irish and Italian heritage, I find one's ethnicity in my generation to be completely irrelevant.
I have lived here for over 20 years and I did not meet a single solitary mom or dad of a school kid who spoke with an Italian accent. Not one.
That's unfortunate.
What an odd thread. The OP worries about Eastchester being "too Italian" and people respond by saying don't worry there aren't "authentic" Italians in Eastchester anyway.
What an odd thread. The OP worries about Eastchester being "too Italian" and people respond by saying don't worry there aren't "authentic" Italians in Eastchester anyway.
Oh brother.
There was no "don't worry" in my statement. I could care less if there are recent Italian immigrants living in Eastchester. I was just stating a fact - you could probably count the first generation Italians under the age of 60 on one hand. That's not a good thing or a bad thing.
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