What ethnicity are your neighbours?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

lisa and my neighbours are polish, hispanic, and white people.

do you live in a mixed ethnicity neighbourhood?

[MrCoffee]

1. gay and breeders with chickens

[MonkeyFunk]

5. They breed with chickens?

What're they up to, trying to create some super breed of gay man-chickens?! I can't approve of that.

[ohiosmith]

9. Nice post Mengele.

[MrCoffee]

17. back off, Dr. Moreau

[ohiosmith]

22. What is the law?

[Dr. Strange]

111. Not to spill blood, that is the law.

Are we not men?

[Kucinich4America]

85. Insert "big cocks" joke here....

Wait.... insert...cocks... oh shit, now they'll think this is a sex thread and shut it down. :rofl:

[madeline_con]

69. Aren't there ordinances against that sort of thing?

Or are you allowed to have chickens in your area?

[MrCoffee]

125. apparently you can have up to 6 hens, no roosters allowed...

and reneging on your promise to give your neighbor eggs is apparently part of the deal.

[KitchenWitch]

2. I live in a mixed ethnicity house!

But my neighborhood is quite diverse as well.

Caucasian, Korean, Arab, Indian (from India), and Chinese are all within 3 houses of us.

In our house, we have Caucasian, Thai, and American Indian.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i live in a mixed ethnicity household too. lisa is white, and i am indian

[Xipe Totec]

52. Me too!

Mexican-Irish, English-Norwegian, Sephardic-Spanish, German-Scot.

And that's just me and the missus.

Then, one of our kids is ethnic Russian, and he considers himself Asian.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. I have no idea...

But I do know that my building is full of Caucasians, Asians, and some Africans. :shrug:

And my city population is over 20% Chinese.

[KamaAina]

4. Korean and Japanese, mainly

Japanese predominate within the building, which also has a sizable elderly haole contingent. Outside is a Korean business strip, complete with its own UPS Store(TM) that specializes in shipping stuff to and from Korea.

do you live in a mixed ethnicity neighbourhood?

Duh! There are very few haole enclaves on the island, and they tend to be upper-income precincts such as Lanikai over on Kailua Beach.

[Zuiderelle]

7. Caucasian, Hispanic, East Indian, Chinese

Posted in the wrong spot, but I'll leave it.

[ohiosmith]

6. They say they're from France. I don't believe it. I think they're hiding something.

[Xipe Totec]

13. ROFL!

:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. African American, Latino, Caucasian, Phillipino and redneck.

[redqueen]

11. Mixed. Apartment community.

Caucasians, African Americans, and Mexicans. They're mostly all assholes.

[flvegan]

12. My neighborhood is almost absurdly white.

My next door neighbors were black, but they've since moved. House is still vacant.

[grace0418]

14. My house is Asian and Euromutt. My neighborhood is various shades of brown and

white. This is why I love living in the city.

[judaspriestess]

15. we live in a cul-de-sac

on the one corner are the zombies, then its us our inter-racial home (Hispanic/White) then its a family of Latinos(Argentinians to be more precise)then its a White family and on the other corner, Hispanics (Mexican, I believe)

[supernova]

16. Hispanic, black, white,

[CreekDog]

18. mixed

filipino, chinese, white, black

[SeattleGirl]

19. Mine are white, Vietnamese, black, and Philipino.

That is on a very small street (half a block long).

Around the corner are whites, blacks, Hispanics, and (though not a racial distinction certainly), a gay couple.

I love my neighborhood.

[Deep13]

20. Russians to the left of me, Scotts to the right! ...

...here I am.
Stuck in the middle with you.

Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.



:D

[rug]

21. I can't tell, she just keeps pointing at me.

[Turbineguy]

23. All types and colors.

[AlCzervik]

24. Hispanic, Laotian, white, black, Persian and Asian.

[seemunkee]

25. Hispanic and Neocon

I like the Hispanic family

[IndianaJones]

26. white....white...and white. very diverse. nt.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. well dont you break that trend? nt

[mwooldri]

30. We're not breaking it around here either. ... but travel a mile...

and it's black, black, black. Travel another mile and you get Hispanic, Hispanic, Hispanic.

There's a few mixed neighbourhoods around our area, but that's mostly people with some actual money. Those with less cash tend to get ghetto-ized - blacks and hispanics tend to be in the 'hood, whites tend to be in the trailer parks.

Of course all of this is a generalization and I know "trailer parks" with a good mixture of people and I've seen some white people live in the 'hood. But that's how it appears to me - the casual observer.

Mark.

[IndianaJones]

35. I guess so. Diversity in the cities is much greater. Out in the farmland, not so much.

[Xipe Totec]

53. What flavor?

Bretton? Franc? Celt? Slav? Basque? Roman?

[IndianaJones]

67. they all look the same to me. nt.

[Xipe Totec]

70. have it your way

It's funny, in a grotesque sort of way nt

[skygazer]

28. I live kind of out in the sticks

Even so, my neighborhood is ethnically mixed. What can I say? I live in the California Bay Area. :)

[Wcross]

29. I live in a very rural area but have diverse neighbors.

The farm behind my place down in the valley is owned by a Laotian man & his family. The nearest neighbor down the road one way (a half mile) is a baptist church whose members are African American. The preacher lives next to his church. The other neighbor going the other way is an older white couple. My NEAREST neighbors are cows if they count. They are the ones that make too much noise. :-)

[ThomCat]

31. Chinese, Romanian,

Italian and mixed european.

My neighborhood is not very ethnicly mixed by NYC standards.

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[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

87. you're so polite!

:D

[FloridaJudy]

33. You name it, we've probably got it

By my estimate: 40% White, 30% African American, 20% Hispanic, 10% Everyone else. We get a lot of grad students, retired people and working class families because the rents are comparatively low and public transportation is handy, but it's still a quiet, relatively safe neighborhood.

I like it here.

[Gonzo Gardener]

34. Crackers and Rednecks as far as the eye can see.

Hold me.

It seems that many folks in my area, central Indiana, are very guarded and not overly friendly. If you didn't go to their high school or attend their church you're an outsider and I haven't found a group of 'outsiders' to hang with yet. I'm very social, love to entertain, but have done very little of that in the last 6 years (since we moved here). :(

I really miss my old neighborhood in So Cal. Lots of great people, very mixed bunch. We were all about BBQ block parties.

Maybe I'm simply seeing the difference between a more rural/conservative population compared to urban dwellers. I'm at a loss for a good answer. It's just the way it is here. Mr. Green Meanie and I talk often of moving to Chicago sooner than later.

[madeline_con]

66. Rednecks love BBQ

Throw one, and they'll all come arunnin' to show you how you're sposed to do it. They'll bring beer, too! ;)

[Xipe Totec]

74. Nuth'n wrong with that

I git along with them fine, same as I git along with everyone.

And I never turn down beer.

[Gonzo Gardener]

92. I wish!

I'm in a very rural area. My closest neighbors informed me that, "We do not glorify demons here." when I was decorating for our first Indiana Halloween. The gargoyle on the front porch has really unnerved many of my neighbors. It's a shame, because we do have a killer firepit out back and weenie roasts just about every Saturday night in the spring and fall. I'd throw a hoedown, but something tells me that they probably don't dance either.

Hell, If I want beer I have to go to the interstate truck stop 20 minutes away or drive more than 30 minutes to Indy!

2000 Census info from the nearest town: 14,520 people, and 5,366 households residing in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 97.44% White, 0.32% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.78% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races.

[SPKrazy]

36. White and Some Asians

:shrug:

[stuntcat]

37. I live in South Arlington

the Hood, we're so mixed up I've got no idea where everyone came from :shrug:

It's mostly Hispanic, white, Indian (but not the kind my husband is, he's Native American), black. .and a lot of other stuff that I don't know the politically correct word for really and I don't wanna sound like a butthole, just lots of different people.
South Arlington :headbang:

[MrScorpio]

45. I lived in South Arlington up to 12 years ago

It was the same then

[stuntcat]

47. my husband grew up here!

He says it's always been this way too. He went to Wakefield High School (we live behind their track now) and he said 20 years ago there were already people at the school who spoke about every language you can think of.

[MrScorpio]

48. Great food in South Arlington

I love Attilas on Columbia Pike

Always delish

[distantearlywarning]

38. I live in a mixed neighborhood.

I really like it. It's made up of primarily Caucasians and African-Americans with a few other things tossed in the mix for spice. I know that it is a gay-friendly neighborhood as well.

[Throd]

39. White and Lily White

[GOPisEvil]

40. My immediate neighbors are caucasian as far as I know.

However, this area is fairly racially diverse. Asians, African-Americans and Hispanics live in this area.

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. Little bit of everything

White, African-American, Latino, and Indian/Pakistani.

[lightningandsnow]

42. Jewish, Jewish, and more Jewish.

My parents wanted me and my brother to have the "Jewish experience", because apparently my mom grew up all depressed because she lived in an Italian neighborhood and was the only Jewish kid for a few blocks. So we live in an extremely Jewish neighborhood.

Naturally, I'm kind of the neighborhood freak... the little non-social queer Jewish pagan activist kid.

[ronnykmarshall]

60. Jewish and Ru Paul

he just moved in.

[Redstone]

43. We happen to live in the only part of town where there are some black folks. Besides them,

the rest are pretty much standard whitebread.

Mrs R and I have more ethnic diversity between the two of us than the rest of the nieghborhood put together.

(Although, and it might surprise anyone who didn't know our town well, we do have a significant Tibetan population; close to 200 in a town of 9,000.)

Redstone

[MrScorpio]

44. All the above

Mixed neighborhood

[Lil Missy]

46. I have no idea, and don't care.

[madeline_con]

71. Do you peek out your window a lot? eom

[CreekDog]

49. I imagine these reponses are similar to what James Watt says about his neighbors (nt)

[txwhitedove]

50. Mixed ethnicity, all ages, retired folks and young families.

[PVnRT]

51. White trash (n/t)

[Whoa_Nelly]

54. Is asshole an ethinicity?

:rofl:


Actually, we have a real mix here. All good, except the jerk next door. :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

55. White, white, white, white, white, white--oh, and white.

What's diversity?

:P

[DarkTirade]

56. I just moved here, I don't know my neighbors that well.

[YDogg]

57. black, white, hispanic

I like my little neighborhood, and the neighbors.

[Oeditpus Rex]

58. I live in a mixed-ethnicity *state*

But I don't know all those people, so.... :D



Le'see... Viv's a WASP, but she's cool. Used to work in the pits with her husband, who was a weekend drag racer.

Ramón and his family are Mexican. He's from Jalisco, I think.

Dottie's another WASP and Ebbie's black.

Here's how the county breaks down, as of the 2000 Census:

* Hispanic (47.9%)
* White Non-Hispanic (46.0%)
* Other race (24.9%)
* Two or more races (5.1%)
* American Indian (2.2%)
* Filipino (1.2%)
* Black (1.1%)

(From www.city-data.com)

[XemaSab]

59. Mexican, Oriental, Cracker

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

62. Oh, wait... I said "Oriental" before I had all the facts of the matter. They're Jap

anese.

[Xipe Totec]

75. That sounds like a hot mix to me

:loveya:

[Kajsa]

61. White, Latino and Asian.

Yep, even Repub Central( OC) has diversity!

Just ask Kitchy.
;-)

[Chovexani]

63. My complex is pretty diverse.

There's an Indian family in the apartment above mine, a white couple across the hall, and some Navajos below me. I just moved in here but so far everyone's been really nice.

[madeline_con]

64. Black, Hispanic, some White

Why?

[GreenPartyVoter]

65. Pretty WASP here, but a few years ago we had several students from the ME

for a while. :)

[madeline_con]

72. From Maine?! n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

83. LOL kids from the Middle East studying in Maine. :^)

[Sultana]

68. White nt

[Perseid]

73. I don't have any, because I bought their homes

except for one family across the way.

[TommyO]

76. I live in a great, racially mixed neighborhood

My next door neighbors are Jamaican and Puerto Rican on either side, there's another Puerto Rican family a few doors down, across the street there are white and black people, some of them Muslim. Somehow we all manage to get along nicely. Oh, I'm white, a Polish/Slovak/Austrian mutt.

[last_texas_dem]

77. Mostly either black or white

I live in an apartment complex in a college town, so my neighbors are mostly college students or older people without a lot of money. Judging by the folks I see hanging out outside the most, I'd assume this complex was majority black, but I think it's just that more of them are likely to hang out outside of their apartments. The guy who lives above me is pretty social and is always throwing barbecues so there are usually bunches of people hanging out outside my apartment!

The racial makeup of my county:

White 69.12%
Black or African-American 23.88%
Asian .77%
Native American .35%
Pacific Islander .05%
"From other races" 4.42%
Two or more races 1.41%
Hispanic or Latino of any race 14.11%

[hippywife]

78. Redneck.

:rofl:

[reyd reid reed]

79. My neighborhood is

fairly whitebread. My home, however, is ethnic.

[Pacifist Patriot]

80. By compass point....

south: African American (who voted for Bush!?)
east: White Anglo Saxon Catholic
north: Connecticut Jewish
west: a lake, I haven't asked it's origins yet

By an large however I'd say I live in a pretty ethnically homogenous neighborhood. Not my preference. I wish we had more diversity. I was bummed when the Indian couple moved away. I loved their kids!

[femmocrat]

81. Rednecks and yahoos.

Their ethnic heritage is anyone's guess.

[eyesroll]

82. Mostly white, although my upstairs neighbor is African and my next-door neighbor is Hispanic.

Area itself is pretty German/Polish/Italian.

[rurallib]

84. White, Hispanic, white, hispanic, white (POSSLQs), white, hispanic,

hispanic, hispanic.
I live in a small Iowa town with a meat packing plant. Many years ago the plant went after cheap labor. Now the town is nearly half Hispanic. Most of the town's growth has been with the Hispanic community. Many have been here longer than me. Some are 3rd even 4th generation.
And not all are from Mexico. Many from Central America. Some even from South America. I think our town is turning the corner from some serious struggles.

[fizzgig]

86. my area is referred to as vanilla valley

and my neighborhood pretty much reflects that...one of the women in front of me is (i believe) black, but i'm not 100 percent on that one

other than that...let's just say i go blind when i step outside on a sunny day

[Generic Brad]

88. Let me sneak up on them and forcibly extract their DNA

I'll send you samples if they don't catch me.

[RushIsRot]

89. My distant neighbor on the western adjacent 20 acres is

McCormick and on the eastern adjacent 80 acres is Ginsberg. I LOVE living in the woods!

[RainDog]

90. Two streets (I live on one of them)

next door African-American on one side, Thai on the other. white woman living in the house she grew up in across. down the street- Russia, Iran, Korea, India and Phillipines.

just two streets where I know people. I don't live in a typical midwestern place. The pop is about 100k and people here from at least 39 countries.

[Ellen Forradalom]

91. Almost all garden-variety Euro-Americanos

There's one family of Mexicans. An unusually low proportion for SoCal.

[bertha katzenengel]

93. black, white - other than that, i'm sure there are many, but i don't know

This county is exploding with new houses, new schools, new commerce.

60 years ago they called it commerce. Now we call it sprawl & crawl - to be polite - and the continued rape of the land - to call it like it is.

[bridgit]

94. French, Chinese, South American, Mexican, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, etc...

[yewberry]

95. Mixed and mixed up.

My neighborhood is pretty diverse (for Seattle)--Hispanic, white, African-American/African, Southeast Asian, Japanese.

We're in an area that has traditionally been home to immigrant populations, so some of those populations have a real foothold here. At the same time, as the housing market (still fairly hot here :eyes:) has pushed wealthier buyers into our neighborhoods.

[Shine]

96. Everything is pretty much white bread here, sadly.

:( I'd love to see some more diversity, but we happen to live in an area with about 80-90% caucasian.

on edit: well actually, our across-the-street neighbors are a multi-cultural family. We don't really have much in common with them cuz they're major fundie Christians who pack up and leave town every Halloween, among other things. He's Chinese and she's British. There's some diversity, I suppose.

The husband of our other neighbor is Egyptian, too. I guess that counts.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

97. Predominantly white Australian but also some British neighbors, some Chinese neighbors and

some from the UK

[Pushed To The Left]

98. Lived in this neighborhood all of my nearly 35 years. Very ethnically diverse

There are mostly white and hispanic people, but there are people of just about every ethnicity here.

[BreweryYardRat]

99. College dorm.

In other words, about as mixed as you can get.

[NewWaveChick1981]

100. The Freeper side: Johnny Whitebread. The other side: WASP.

:rofl: :hi: It's true, though...

[RebelOne]

101. Most of my neighbors are Hispanic.

And most of them are illegals.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

102. how do you know they are here illegally? they cant actually be illegal since human beings

cant be legal or illegal.

[LuckyTheDog]

103. Mostly black (slim majority) and white

A few Asians as well. I am (in case it matters) white.

[Lyric]

104. We have a diverse neighborhood

Our nearest neighbors include an older white couple who drive school buses for the county, a black female college student who's raising her 7 year old niece (the niece is my son's best friend), two gay men who've been together for eons who live across the street and have matching cars, and a mixed-race couple with a baby.

[Fox Mulder]

105. All white.

Not that their ethnicity matters.

[BarenakedLady]

106. My neighbors...

are mostly Odocoileus virginianus, Sciurus carolinensis, Tamias striatus, and Peromyscus.

[Inchworm]

108. Real cute

Thanks for the chuckle when I looked them up :P

No carduelis tristis? hehe

I would flirt with you but it is too early in the morning and my hair is wet.

:loveya:

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

110. Yes them too

They are a bunch of free loaders though. Always looking for a damn handout.

:hi:

[NewJeffCT]

107. The home to our right is Chinese by way of Canada, to the left

I think the family is of Irish descent based on the husband's last name... but, I can't tell for sure if anything else is mixed in. He's always traveling for work, so we've barely had time to talk. (we moved in 10 months ago, they moved in maybe 2-3 months later)

There are several other Chinese families, some Indian and at least one Pakistani family, though most are white. There is also a Vietnamese/Korean couple a few homes down, and at least one other Korean family. The husband in one of the Chinese families is a top stem-cell researcher. There are a couple of African-American families, but I'm not sure about Hispanic-American.

[kwassa]

109. WASP, German, Hispanic, Egyptian, African-American, African, ....

The immediate neighborhood is in the process of a long, slow shift from an all-white middle-class neighborhood to a much more diverse middle-class neighborhood. It is not uncommon for the local schools to have kids from 90 nations, as the DC area is a magnet for immigrants from all countries.

We are part of the diversity as I am white and my wife is black.

We also have a family a few houses away where the wife and kids are deaf, but not the husband. One of the kids now attends Galludet University.

Lots of Indians in this area, and I have had a couple of students named Priyanka, by the way. Of course, I have had an Indian uncle-by-marriage, and a set of Indian-American cousins. My uncle and aunt are now divorced, however.

[AngryAmish]

112. I might live in the most ethnically diverse place in America (or the world)

In my 6 flat building we have, white Americans, Belgians, Philippine, Indian, Pakistani and although not a ethnicity, gay folks.

Neighborhood, African American, African, Hispanic in all its permutations, Indian, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, American Indian, and a lot others that I'm forgetting.

Supposedly about 88 languages are spoken in my neighborhood.

All that said, the place is a dump and I can't honestly tell anyone to move here.

[Burma Jones]

113. Chinese, my entire street, except us and a next door neighbor who rents from a Chinese owner

When the lots were going up for sale for development in 1999, a Chinese born agent bought 20 lots that constituted the entire street. Later, he sold the houses to Chinese born people at lower prices than he offered to other folks. He was taken to court for that little move, but the houses had already been bought. In 2003, we bought one of the houses from one of the original Chinese owners. We have a lot of Grandparents in the neighborhood taking care of the grandkids, taking walks etc. Some of the families harvest from their gardens well into January - I think the older folks lived through the Cultural Revolution. The Christmas Lights they put up stay up until Chinese New Years as well, which is a pleasant thing.

Move outside of this street and you have European Americans, more Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Other Assorted Asians, African Americans and Hispanics - in that approximate order. The local Elementary School is mixed thusly:

38% Asian
37% White
15% African American
8% Hispanic
2% Native American


I've noticed a funny thing about the Chinese kids, before they head off to Kindergarten, I only hear them speaking Chinese. By the end of their stint in Kindergarten, they're speaking English with no accent and use the language as though it was the first one they learned.

[NewJeffCT]

121. That's interesting

My wife is Chinese and I've noticed that Chinese are often far more likely to take advantage of other Chinese than they are of other ethnic groups. I know that is different than other ethnic groups over the years, too.

As an example, a few years back, my wife booked a tour through a Chinese travel agency. The tour itinerary they sent to us was different than what they had advertised, and my wife called them up immediately and was arguing on the phone with them for a good hour, and made no progress in getting what we booked for what we paid.

So, she had me call them up and I just asked them why we got the wrong itinerary and the problem was miraculously resolved. I'm certainly not a negotiator at all, either.

and, I know it's similar if you work in a small to mid sized business as well. I've heard stories from several Chinese that if there is one Chinese person working there, they will almost always not get along with a new Chinese employee.

[huskerlaw]

114. I don't know my neighbors

But from what I've seen of them, they're mostly white. I live in a very white part of LA.

I do know that the guy across the alley looks like a very creepy skinhead/nazi/kkk member. I consciously avoid him.

[bikebloke]

115. Drunks and self-centered eejits.

Those are ethnicities, I'm sure.

[semillama]

116. My white landlord is in the other half of our double

but the house next door is our elderly black neighbor, and next to him is a gay couple. Yay Clintonville!

[LibDemAlways]

117. My community is half Jewish. The rest are everything

else. My daughter has friends of Indian, Japanese, and Polish-Jewish heritage.

I live in So. Cal, but my husband works in Seattle. He has a co-worker up there who is proud to live in what he terms a "normal white" suburb. Husband just shakes his head.

[tjwmason]

118. White

An English village - it's about as monochrome as one can get.

[cwydro]

119. In the Keys

we are all mixed up. Cubans, Mexicans, Haitians and American blacks and whites...with a few Hondurans, Peruvians, Venezuelans thrown in for spice.

[MissMillie]

120. I think my landlord is Irish

other than that, I have no idea.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

122. African-American, South African, Hispanic, White.

And that's just my building. ;)

[unpossibles]

123. mainly black and white

I don't know specifically what countries per se, but about half and half black and white on my street and the neighborhood in general, with a smaller percentage of Indian, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern. Not many East Asians in the immediate neighborhood, or at least that I have noticed, but overall pretty mixed neighborhood.

[IronLionZion]

124. white, Indian, black, east asian

There are all sorts of people in my building, except maybe hispanics. While whites are the dominant majority in Bloomington, MN, I do live in a mixed ethnicity neighborhood.

[SoxFan]

126. Inner city Manchester

Irish, French-Canadian, Greek, Dominican, Bosnian, a few Sudanese, with an occasional displaced swamp yankee.

[Evoman]

127. I live in an apartment.

Four suites. Above me 2 white girls. Beside them, 2 black girls. Beside me, a Chinese girl and a chinese guy.

All of the girls upstairs (all 4 of them) are sexy-ass college girls, 2 who have flirted with me. Alas, I am taken.

[Rosie1223]

128. My daughter's BFFs: Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, & Mormon

Snack foods can be a challenge at her sleepovers.

[UndertheOcean]

129. 1 Jew and 3 chatholics.

sarcasm

[Maine-ah]

130. heh, I'm in maine

take a guess.