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Originally Posted by Bladewire
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LOL at the Czech Republic. I think it's a beautiful country and Prague is a gorgeous city but corruption is everywhere. Try getting a cab ride and you will see what I mean.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I can tell you that Chinese people PREFER to live in "China Town". Here in Vegas it's a vibrant community. And the one in San Francisco is absolutely incredible.
Reality Check: You can't "Put" or "Let" people live anywhere. They CHOOSE where they want to live. You can't force a Chinese family to move to a Hispanic or Black neighborhood.
If you think about it...what you are suggesting is some kind of dictatorship where people are controlled by govt. (seems to be what the Democrat Party is wanting the last few years).
I think it's just human nature for people to migrate to like-minded people. Most black people like to hang with other black people. Most hispanics hang with other hispanics, etc.
You simply have more in common with people who are more like yourself (obviously). It's just human nature to slip into your "comfort zone" and feel...well, comfortable.
Getting people to mix socially and live together is the goal of course. And it does happen. But it's not the first instinct of what people do.
If you were a Chinese man with a family moving to a new town...I almost guarantee you would be looking for a place in "China Town" so that you and your wife and kids would feel safe and comfortable.
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There is a saying: "People who are alike tend to like each other." It's tribal, it goes back to our roots. We "trust" people who look like they are from out tribe. So immigrant groups tend to stick together and live together. So what? Robbie is right. Forcing people to mix is wrong. Unless we are talking the South and whites vs. ex-slaves and their descendants then it's bring in the National Guard.
I live in New York City. We have THE Chinatown. Plus Little Italy, and the Lower East Side (Jewish immigrants) and Greenpoint (Polish) and Spanish Harlem (Latin) and Koreatown and on and on. The mix is what is so brilliant and beautiful but when the communities do NOT mix, like in Los Angeles, it can be very bad indeed.