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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The black and white comments are weird. I had mostly Asian friends in HS in this area and I now live in dupont where my kids’ school is 50% white and pretty equally divided among black, latin , asian for the other 50%. Sure our Mexican food sucks but our Ethiopian is great and our Korean can hang. We are more informed and like substantive conversations. I am sure there are many snobs but nobody I know is one. People in DC are from all over so it’s not homogenous at all. [/quote]

I noticed way more racism in LA when I lived there.  It was actually shocking to me. I had a friend from LA who was giving me advice for how to make a certain recipe and told me to head to the mexican part of town. I told them we didn't have a mexican part of town- that we do have certain ethnic divisions but for the most part everyone is mixed up together, and it's all just kind of a melting pot.  They literally didn't believe me.

If you watch the LA riots, which happened in 1992, I mean, that level of racial hatred and the horrific race relations just doesnt happen in DC.  Yes we have divisions but for the most part black people are welcomed into the white part of town and vice versa.  In Los Angeles at times i felt like I was getting really bad reactions because of the color of my skin (white) in a way I have never experienced in any other part of the US (and I've lived in several major cities).  The only thing true is that they do have a larger asian population, but that's largely because asia is much closer to the west coast.  And even then, they are often relegated to a particularly area, aka koreatown, whereas in DC you couldn't even identify the "asian" part of town because, as I said, everyone is mixed together. [/quote]

I’m surprised this was your experience. non-Hispanic whites are a minority in Los Angeles. It is a brown city. Latinos, Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Persian, Lebanese, Armenian (who are white, but just speaking at how diverse even LA’s white population is!), plus black Angelinos!

Each little group has its town—Thai Town, Little Persia, Koreatown—-but it’s just a concentration of restaurants and shops. People live allllll over the city![/quote]

Yes, non hispanic whites make up the minority in Los Angeles as a whole- and the majority on the westside, which is almost entirely white and far and away the wealthiest part of the town.  Only a town like Los Angeles could raise up someone like Kelly Osbourne who said, thinking she was being woke, "If we dont let Mexicans in, who will clean your toilets?"  And that pretty much sums up Los Angeles.  It's not really worth much to have "diversity" if that diversity involves segregation into separate sections.  In fact it's the opposite. 
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