Re: "The blacks" -- It's Debateable

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Subject: Re: "The blacks"

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M23

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Date Posted: 08:31:07 10/02/02 Wed
In reply to: Alan 's message, "Re: "The blacks"" on 06:56:38 09/29/02 Sun

" But I
>totally reject the idea that we are all pretty much
>the same now, just because we superficially shop at
>some of the same stores and whatnot."

But you see thats the thing...in my racially mixed burb we are pretty much the same...I can't walk through my town and find an exclusively Cuban influence or an exclusive Irish neighborhood anylonger. It just doesn't exist...perhaps BECAUSE of the COL?

"Perhaps in
>another couple hundred years your statement will be
>more accurate (though I hope not), but not today, no
>way."

I think its here already

">I mean, for example, I used to live in one of the most
>diverse neighbourhoods in the world (in Jersey City,
>NJ); yet Dominicans saw themselves as completely
>different than Cubans, Mexicans, etc.--even though
>they would all be labelled "Hispanic" by some; and
>though they all spoke Spanish."

Yeah I know I remember back when I was in college having a Cuban spanish instructor and a Puerto Rican TA...it was quite ovious that THEY had a problem with each other...perhaps they couldn't see the commonality of just being human?

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