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Agreed. I feel like southerners are a lot more open/blunt about -- I've never met a Jew/Muslim, I've never had a black friend, I only want to socialize with people from my own race/religion/church etc. While in the north it is PC to want diversity, but we all know many do not REALLY want more than surface level contact; the difference is in the north it comes out in subtle comments, rather than bluntly stating it. I don't even mean those in rural Pa. who have never seen a Jew/Muslim -- I have run into it in places like NYC. Was interviewing last month at one of the top 5 investment banks in NYC. As part of the process, I had to have coffee with this worldly woman in the department -- the typical wealthy NYC upper east side type of person -- though given that she kills herself in I-banking at the age of 50, I suspect she is not old money. Anyway she was engaging and spent half the time talking about her awesome travel experiences, the last time she was in Italy blah blah. We seemed to be getting along great, but she could not contain herself from asking how often I get to go home. I said -- every 4-6 weeks. She looked puzzled. I looked puzzled as I explained -- well my parents are in Philadelphia, it only takes 90 min to get there -- as she said "oh I meant home-home -- India." Nice attitude. A brown person who was born and raised in Pa. certainly cannot be as "American" as her and think of Pa as home, they have to think of India as home -- where they last visited about 15 yrs ago and where their parents came from almost 40 yrs ago. So the attitudes are no different in the north -- just the presentation is different.[/quote]

As a fellow Indian-American who lives in DC and aspires to work in New York, this is shocking and disheartening. : /[/quote]

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