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"If you REALLY want to see 'diversity'... go to 'China Town' (count the Chinese there). Then go to 'Little Italy' (count the Italians there). Then go to 'Little Odessa'... etc, etc. (did I mention Harlem, Wash Heights? They are all in New York. Then write a third grade level essay on why people tend to naturally want to live with and near those like them.".

Come to Astoria where I live and you will find an amazing collection of people represeting may nations and cultures on this planet. This is not social engineering at work just the desire of many people (I lived in Manhattan for 32 years but lost the cheap apartment of 28 years) to live in a safe community with strong family values and cheaper everything than many of the surrounding communities. I'm 20 minutes from Manhattan to link up with work and old friends. The "diversity" as manifest in Astoria has led to the proliferation of lots of great little restaurants and food shops.

I know that food was not the initial intent of this thread
but I just thought I'd kick in my two pesos.

I know Astoria. It's a mostly Greek-East European place even though there may be Chinese/Korean infiltrators and it may turn all-Asian in 10 years, the same way BedStuy turned non-White, and large sections of Bay Ridge have seen the Italians moving elsewhere, being rplaced by Asians. And... it's quite ugly (boy aren't I happy I no longer have to ride the diverse New York subways)

I you are a New Yorker you should know exactly who lives where - Jews in Park Slope, Blaks in Harlem and... guess who in the 'Spanish' Harlem.

So... let's be serious and don't B.S. New York is NOT 'diverse', it's only a very large collection of Ghettos. And, whatever 'diversity' is achieved, it is being done clearly BY FORCE, as in the case of Yonkers, where the whites there were forced by a judge to build cheap housing for the opressed minority in the midst of their until then quiet but 'non diverse' little town.