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**SkeniaInhilla** · 02-25-2011, 02:16 PM

Where you are, maybe.

When you're from NYC, ethnicity is everything.

I met a white Christian girl in an Armenian neighborhood and she told me she couldn't date me because I was Western. I dated a Ukrainian girl in Junior High and her family got pissed at me because I said a few words I'd picked up in Russian and they were offended. A lot of Jewish parents strongly frown on letting their daughters date non-Jews.

Sure, within my own community, dating blacks is basically asking to be disowned, but any non-Italian white group, especially a WASP-y group will upset your family.

I was also raised in a small, rural town, not a metropolis…

I grew-up around Hispanics, Latinos, Natives, and redneck/cowboy WASPs.

Nobody really thought much about ethnicity, but, there actually was a LOT of diversity in my school. My best friend was a clear English type, another friend Scottish. In fact there was a wide range of ethnic diversity in my school, come to think of it. But people really were either "white" or "brown/Latino". Racism was not a big problem. We only had a couple of black kids and students and they didn't seem to suffer anymore or less racial discrimination than Latinos in the community. Natives were a small minority too.

New York seems like the extreme end of the spectrum as far as examples can go, pretty much the quintessential "ethnic" city in the world, correct?

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SkeniaInhilla Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	Where you are, maybe. When you're from NYC, ethnicity is everything. I met a white Christian girl in an Armenian neighborhood and she told me she couldn't date me because I was Western. I dated a Ukrainian girl in Junior High and her family got pissed at me because I said a few words I'd picked up in Russian and they were offended. A lot of Jewish parents strongly frown on letting their daughters date non-Jews. Sure, within my own community, dating blacks is basically asking to be disowned, but any non-Italian white group, especially a WASP-y group will upset your family. I was also raised in a small, rural town, not a metropolis… I grew-up around Hispanics, Latinos, Natives, and redneck/cowboy WASPs. Nobody really thought much about ethnicity, but, there actually was a LOT of diversity in my school. My best friend was a clear English type, another friend Scottish. In fact there was a wide range of ethnic diversity in my school, come to think of it. But people really were either "white" or "brown/Latino". Racism was not a big problem. We only had a couple of black kids and students and they didn't seem to suffer anymore or less racial discrimination than Latinos in the community. Natives were a small minority too. New York seems like the extreme end of the spectrum as far as examples can go, pretty much the quintessential "ethnic" city in the world, correct?
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