[Buckeye McFrog]

I take it EVERY little Hispanic sub-group gets it’s own day and own parade in New York City?

[Mercat]

So are you saying that there are too many parades in the world?

[Clemenza]

Dominicans are the largest immigrant group in NYC so yes, they get their own parade, as btw, do the Poles, Germans, and Italians although all of them are smaller in terms of thier immigrant populations in NYC.

[wideawake]

The "little Hispanic subgroup" known as Dominicans have a population of about 600,000 people in New York City.

There are more Dominicans in NYC than there are people in general in Portland, OR.

There are about 700,000 Puerto Ricans in NYC as well.

They both have parades, and both groups in NYC sent a lot of members to fight and die in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf Wars.

If Irish, Italians, Poles, Germans, and EVERY little European subgroup gets its own day and parade in NYC, I think the Dominicans are entitled.

[kabumpo]

The Dominicans are not a little subgroup, in NYC they are the largest group from Latin America. I don’t know if every country from Latin America has a parade. I know there is a small Cuban parade in May, a Puerto Rican parade to celebrate their patron saint, John the Baptist, in June and an overall Latin American parade in October. We have the biggest St Patrick’s Day parade in the world, and also parades for Greeks, Israelis and Indians. We also have a Columbus Day parade and a very large Thanksgiving Day parade.