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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friends in the 1990s - I lived in NYC from 1986-1999.

Bars and neighborhoods were very segregated.

I hung out with white Catholic college educated single people who worked on Wall Street between ages of 24-33 lived in Manhattan and grew up on Long Island.

There was no internet, cell phones. Bars and places catered to particular crowds

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ok, but none of the Friends roles worked on Wall St.

The roles in Friends were:

1. someone who worked in a coffee house then at a fashion house -- there are a lot of Asian people in NYC fashion industry. My friend who is 55 (Korean) was there.
2. someone who worked at a museum, and the only one to date a minority
3. an actor -- I'm pretty sure NYC had minority actors
4. a white collar worker in a boring office job-- were there no minorities working in boring white collar office jobs in NYC in the 90s?  I'm Asian American, worked in Orange County, CA in the 90s, which was very white, and even we had several non white people in our office
5. A chef -- need I say more
6. A masseuse.. this is the only person who may never have dealt with a minority in their daily lives.

Again I loved that show, but it was white washed.[/quote]

To be honest outside of work in NYC in 1980s and 1990s people stuck their own tribe. NYC was mainly Black, Spanish and White. We all generally lived in different neighborhoods back then [/quote]

NYC  had a large Chinese population in the 1980’s. Every racial demographic was represented in NYC. I do agree that the city was very much segregated and remember how a Black teenager was killed in an Italian section of Brooklyn because his color/race  wasn’t allowed. The movie “Do the Right Thing” was real. There was the Irish, Italian, Caribbean, Chinese, Arab, Puerto Rican, Russian, etc all different sections of the city. I don’t know if it’s the same today. [/quote]

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