96turboracer

Just thought I'd post a few comments about growing up in the Northwest seems how quite a few of you on here are from there.

I grew up in a little town on the coast and there was no ethnic diversity whatsoever, I think there were two black families in the entire town. I was friends with one of them because they were the same religion as me, and it's funny to think about it now, but I never noticed how weird it must have been for them to be the one of the only African American people there. The kids didn't have too tough of a time though because being the only black kids in school there was a certain fasination with them, and that made them pretty popular.

Then I moved down to San Diego after I graduated, man that place is one giant melting pot of diversity, opened my Oregonian eyes up that's for sure.

I'll say this: You don't see as many mexicans down there as you'd think, Iranians are always pissed off because someone keeps telling them to buy old Dodge vans and they always break, so they're pissed. Plus their accents makes it extremely hard to tell what they're saying. You barely see any asian girls their because they all go to college and they're all studying. (Actually I think they were trying to get with all the rich guys, which of course are other asian guys) The black people down there are super chill and you don't run into many with attitudes unless you go to the ghettoish areas. and I know my limitations being a blond haired white boy. There are about 20,000,000 brazillians there, and these people are the funniest, most accepting people I've ever met in my life. My bro and I were living with 6 other Brazilians in a two bedroom place. The arab people mostly try not to be noticed since 9/11.

Being down there for a few years really made me kind of regret where I grew up, because with no diversity whatsoever beyond tons of mexicans working in lily fields, I had nothing to draw on about these people and their culture, and down there they interact so well together and barely anyone has a problem with someone else.

Not to say that some aren't dicks, but that has nothing to do with their nationality and everything to do with who they are as a person.

Oh yeah and if you aren't making 100k a year, don't expect any girls to look in your direction twice, they're all about the cash money down there.

Now I'm back in Central Oregon, and once again there's no diversity, and I'm getting sick of seeing a bunch of rednecks talking ignorantly about things they don't understand. I love Oregon and a lot of the things it offers, but sometimes I feel like it's about 30 years behind everyone else.

I guess I'll stop rambling now.

jdmvaaj

i think more people need to have the same perception as you do.. maybe in anotherl ifetime huh..

McBoost

Same here... from my high school I could count the number of non-white kids on 1 hand (school had like 800 people).

J-SMITH69

you're a racist. ---- you racist ignorant trash

96turboracer

MikeJ-2009

ahh, the news media has you feeling quilty about being white? The 2 african Americans in your school aren't special. They don't need to be felt sorry for. Remember, everybody's the same until you start refering to them by thier skin color.


God I hope you're kidding.

96turboracer

Steve you need to read my posts more closely before you reply with that crap. I didn't feel bad for them because they were black, I felt bad because I know that if I were in a similar situation with all black kids, I might feel a little alone.

Hell I envied them! they got the hot chicks in school.

Besides which, the whole point of my post was to celebrate diversity, and I mean that through culture not the specific color of their skin

You might want to take another look at yourself and try to understand why you chose to read my post the way you did.

J-SMITH69

celebrate diversity, the montra of a liberal mush brain

t3t5

why do we need to celebrate any ethnical day? we are all human ------s just **** me off cuz they are annoying and black.

mike94se

---- the British. They were genious to make ------s slaves

Azns complain less