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Many years ago, my friend and I play something we called the N train game. Traveling from Manhattan into Queens, we would guess which stop the white people woul
by donretag 9y ago
Many years ago, my friend and I play something we called the N train game. Traveling from Manhattan into Queens, we would guess which stop the white people would get off in Manhattan. Only us "ethnic" white people went into Queens, the rest (American white for lack of a better term) did not.
Now all of that is over. Everyone got pushed into the outer boroughs. There is a hipster bar next door to the building I was born in. Unimaginable twenty years ago. I left my hometown due to cost. Twice the price for a city that is half as fun as it used to be. But this article still shows the amount of diversity in the city.
- umanwizard 9y agoI think “Anglo-Saxon” is the term you’re looking for
- acjohnson55 9y agoProbably not, at least in the sense of literal English heritage. There's definitely a White American identity, which is an innovation owing to suburbaniztion and television. Previously ethnically diverse white people assimilated as they left ethnic enclaves for the burbs. And for white people with deeper American roots, migration broke down regional American identities. It's a concept known as ethnogenesis. While some insular white American identities persist in rural and small town America (Appalachian and Cajun come to mind), it's largely recent immigrants contrasting against a monolithic White American identity.
- umanwizard 9y agoI don't think being part of what I would call "Anglo-Saxon culture" depends on literally descending from the historical Angle and Saxon tribes -- it just means "the culture of typical White Americans" (or New Zealanders, Australians, Canadians, etc.)
- drpgq 9y agoIt's interesting as a percentage how many artists/musicians there are.