Posted Feb 3, 2011, 6:56 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: philadelphia, pa
Posts: 12,294
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Originally Posted by Kingofthehill
Oh, no. I hope you didn't take that seriously, sasso! I was quoting that now-infamous article from the now-banned thread that called PDX, Austin, and Minneapolis as being "white cities" with no actual diversity.  |
ha ha, it's all good king. i didn't catch the reference (nor that thread), but ... stereotypes always have their origins in the truth. besides, i was defending portland's diversity -- natural vanilla, french vanilla, organic vanilla.
believe me, moving here from a major east coast city, i always hear (from there) about how white portland is. and it is, yes, but it's not ALL white. my hometown (tyrone PA, an appalachian central PA town of 5,000) is 99%+ white, so portland's 78% is a veritable melting pot compared to what i grew up with. the 22% other is very noticeable, too, namely in the food and shopping options across the city and suburbs, but also in the ethnic pockets you find in any city. but yes, the white areas of town are very white, and getting offended by that is silly at best, insincere at worst.
also dtpdx: ha ha, birds.
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