OK, but there's an absolutely enormous difference between you saying this: > Several smaller ethnic groups are not well represented in NYC and this, which is

OK, but there's an absolutely enormous difference between you saying this: > Several smaller ethnic groups are not well represented in NYC and this, which is what I'm disputing here: > NYC's image is always going to be intertwined with Italian-American, Irish-American, German-American, or <insert European community>-American" I don't think that statement about NYC's image is remotely accurate or fair. > I have been called slurs in similarly sized towns in Upstate New York. Upstate New York is multiple hours drive from NYC, and not considered part of the NYC metro area. Are you asserting that there are no places a similar distance from SF that will "other" people of color? Edit to add: > For example, if I want authentic Uyghur samosas, I have 3 options in SF, but only 1 that recently opened in ALL of the NYC metro From a couple minutes of searching on Google, I see two options in Manhattan and at least four in Queens offering it as either samosa, samsa, or baked bun. Is this what you were referring to?