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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know if this is relevant, but I thought I'd share my experience having lived in NY my whole life and now DC for a long time as well. New York is an incredibly international city and diverse in every way, but it is not an integrated city at all. The closest people come is on the subway and that doesn't include all the people with money who haven't taken the subway in 30 years. The Italians stick together, the Irish, the Greeks, the Haitians, the Dominicans, the Puerto Ricans, the Jews, the Protestants, etc all have their enclaves, schools, communities, charities, restaurants, and don't really overlap that much.

DC is much more international and integrated in the sense (maybe not socioeconomically) that there are ton of foreign nationals living here for a myriad of reasons, in addition to first generation Americans. There aren't really small enclaves as in NY but rather everyone is interacting all the time, at restaurants, schools, jobs, metroing, etc. It's a totally different way of being diverse.

We attend a school that is incredibly diverse. At first I thought, wow this is so forced. It's not as if the real world actually even works this way where everyone from every different background is hanging out, but I've learned to really love and appreciate it for what it is. An incredible opportunity for my family and children to meet people from every different background on a real level of friendship: fifth generation Americans (chinese, jewish, russian, etc) to fresh off the plane from their newest assignment, which happens to be in the US.

Not sure I really verbalized this so well, bcse very tired, but I thought it might help explain some of the school's perhaps misplaced desire to find out where you "really were from". The PC commitment to diversity in this city is just different. Maybe overcommited to the idea, but still an interesting process to be part of.[/quote]

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