https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:02:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live/page/2#post-746041 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:40:36 +0000 Alivoo01 746041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup! Each city has their own "dominating" nationality, but overall, we're a big ole melting pot of everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live/page/2#post-746025 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:37:26 +0000 SugarplumsMom 746025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, not really. But in my neighborhood, there's people from other parts of Europe and I know of a few Asians that live in town. But as a country in general, no, it's a homogeneous society and it always has been. There has been a recent increase and the locals are just beginning to learn and deal with diversity. It's my hope that Swedes will be as sensitive and open-minded with race relations as they are with gender and sexual equality. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live/page/2#post-745991 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:29:29 +0000 kjpugs 745991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in Orlando and most of it (especially where we live) I am in the minority as a white female. Mostly hispanic/latino (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican seem to be the ones I know most? DH works with a lot of them and they try to explain the differences between themselves haha and try to teach him spanish!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745969 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:24:49 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 745969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've only been in our city for a few years, and while it is somewhat diverse - I wish it was less segregated. </p> <p>It's actually something I've been thinking a lot about lately because if we decide to adopt (and we would be open to any race) I would like to have people in our lives that our children could relate to and go to with questions we wouldn't be able to answer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745809 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:42:59 +0000 chibee 745809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, mostly white in my town, I'm pretty sure I am one of like 2 Asians that live in the town. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745750 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:21:03 +0000 spaniellove 745750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Supposedly we have some ethnic diversity in the area (a few East/South Asian and Jewish families), which I don't really see a lot of but it's still more than what a lot of other suburbs in the region have. I guess these days that wouldn't really be considered diverse! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745725 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:11:26 +0000 HLK208 745725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep - the town I use to live in wasn't at all though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745715 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:01:32 +0000 LuLu Mom 745715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really, although I will say in the last few years it has definitely gotten better! We have a huge university where we live that brings in different cultures, and luckily our neighborhood has some diversity so our kids will see it...that is until we move to our hometown again and then it will completely reverse.</p> <p>I plan on doing my best to raise them to see people for who they are not what they look like, because to be honest in our small towns racism unfortunately still lives on, and I hate it. It makes me cringe at times, luckily our families are not! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745676 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:40:53 +0000 Mrs. Twine 745676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. Ethnic hair care where I live is for anyone who has a natural color other than blond. We have to really represent diversity of all kinds in our literature, because I don't want the girls to have a geographically limited world view. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745659 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:33:15 +0000 MrsTiz 745659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My town is split pretty evenly between being about half white and half AA.</p> <p>We don't have many other races here according to our stats, but it sure seems like there are a lot of Hispanic people here.</p> <p>I imagine it'd be hard to calculate it though because we're a military base so people are always coming and going. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745651 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:28:18 +0000 Honeybee 745651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: I had no idea about the refugee population, but there's actually a pretty big group here from different countries! A few people at my husband's office are refugees who have naturalized. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745513 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:15:17 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 745513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. There are lots of first or second generation people from Central and South America as well as the Carribean Islands. The further North you travel in South Florida the diversity wanes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745495 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:45:14 +0000 Ree723 745495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely. We have a huge aboriginal population here, as well as a strong Asian population, primarily Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Thai, due to our close proximity to Asia. I love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745488 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:38:15 +0000 lomom 745488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not at all </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745483 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:35:13 +0000 Dandelion 745483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Charlotte is a pretty diverse area, but the little town I live in (until tomorrow!) isn't, so much. The area we're planning on ultimately move to is more diverse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745480 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:33:10 +0000 GrapeCrush 745480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>definitely. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745465 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:55:05 +0000 Smurfette 745465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think so, Atl seems to have a good mix of cultures and people. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745382 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:31:28 +0000 tysonja 745382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>pretty much so. i live in vancouver. </p> <p>when i worked on the west side of the city, over half my students were mixed kids (mostly a chinese + caucasian mix). i thought that was so interesting! it's so normal in that neighbourhood! i guess i shouldn't be too surprised cause my own LO's are the same mix as well :) nice to know they definitely won't be the only ones in the city. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745359 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:04:28 +0000 sera_87 745359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, I'd say so. I remember when my sister moved here, she asked what the red license plates with white letters meant. Her face when I told her those were diplomatic plates were priceless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745340 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:50:10 +0000 Weagle 745340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty diverse. DC is diverse, my specific neighborhood is diverse, the larger DC metro area is not quite so diverse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745200 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:00:19 +0000 deerylou 745200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Moderately. The African-American population is admittedly rather low, especially in comparison to where I went to college. However, we live in a very liberal city that celebrates diversity, in every which way, so it works out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745193 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:57:37 +0000 skibobrown 745193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No :-( I've always lived in pretty diverse places before, but now I live in rural Iowa, so there is very little diversity. I do work in a college town, so there is a fair amount of diversity associated with the college, but as soon as you get away from the college bubble it is the whitest place I have every lived. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745183 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:54:42 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 745183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: I hated that about Seattle. Very diverse but very segregated. Our new city is much more integrated and I love it!</p> <p>My family is from Brooklyn going back to the early 1800's, so it is near and dear to my heart. I have the addresses of many of the buildings that they lived in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745147 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:41:23 +0000 JamieLee 745147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not at all. We live in a very small town in northern Michigan and its a huge change from the suburbs of Detroit where I grew up (the town I grew up in has the largest Middle Eastern community in the US). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745140 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:38:58 +0000 mrsjazz 745140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: It's pretty awesome. We are pretty sure that if we stay in NYC we will stay in this neighborhood so that LO is immersed in all of this diversity. While NYC can be very diverse, it can also be very separate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745108 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:31:31 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 745108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: Sounds like my dream! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745080 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:25:39 +0000 oliviaoblivia 745080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Toronto is very diverse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745071 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:23:54 +0000 mrs. bird 745071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. We live in a small city, but some of the surrounding towns- not so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745055 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:19:40 +0000 Anagram 745055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The neighborhood where I live is not super diverse--I'd say it skews majorly to South Asian and East Asian (mainly south asian). But I guess the city as a whole is diverse.</p> <p>The small town where my job is is not that diverse. Mostly white, pretty evenly mixed between WASPS and Jewish students. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-it-culturally-diverse-where-you-live#post-745037 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:16:54 +0000 mrsjazz 745037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in one of the most culturally diverse areas of Brooklyn! I actually think I read somewhere that it's the most ethnically diverse area of Brooklyn.</p> <p>ETA: I live in a building that is primarily Polish and Russian. Our neighborhood playground looks like the United Nations: women in hijabs, Orthodox Jewish women, women in saris; we have a lot of Central American, South Asian, Chinese, Irish, Italian, and Caribbean people. </p>