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Originally posted by lifesaver
Kind of interesting, but in the south, especially in Texas, no one ever identifys themselvs as italian, Russian, etc. Yore either white, black, asian, hispanic, etc. You'll never hear, so whats your race? "Oh Im irish." I did hear that tho a few times when I was in NYC.
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NYC is a huge city of great diversity including white ethnic minorities. Apparently there are over 140 different ethnicities and cultures in NYC. Due to immigration, certain areas became Irish, Italian, Greek, or Russian neighborhoods even though the people who live there are not exclusively those ethnicities. For example when I tell people where I live, they automatically ask if I am Greek because it's known as a Greek neighborhood. This resulted in a lot of confusion in college.
