I live in a Black Neighbourhood, what about you?

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  1. Baff

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    I can't count that high.

    If you breed with your mum or your sister, you will get less double recessives than if you breed with your cousin.
    It is safer. Genetically.
    If you do so, you will fit in well here.

    In order to sound foolish, one simply has to take a joke seriously and then the laugh is on you.
     
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    This thread has gone horribly wrong.
     
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    If you were really diverse, you'd move to a muslim community.
     
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    Spanish Harlem, and yes it is pretty safe now.
     
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    I grew up in the East New York section of Brooklyn, NY which is generally acknowledged to be the worse ghetto in USA history. While many believe that Brixton is a tough place to live in, it's a child's playground compared to what ENY is all about.
     
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    In 2004 in Brixton I was a part of this show in Brixton Academy called Lambrook (Lambeth meets Brooklyn) which was just arts and music from both boroughs like a coming together event...
    Brixton is the centre/capital of Lambeth (The town where Lambeth Borough Council is)...

    IDK...

    People say Thornton Heath is 'Blacker than Brixton' and I happen to live in Thornton Heath (between Croydon and Brixton in South London) and the murder rate out here brings where I live down.
    It usually is black on black crime but still, bad whoever's killing and getting killed.
     
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    ENY also has a large West Indian population. I grew up having quite a few pals from Jamaica, Virgin Isles, Barbados, Trinidad, etc. Perhaps that is why I love the sport of cricket so much. :)
     
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    :)...An American that likes and understands cricket!! I didn't think you guys had that sort of attention span...
     
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    I was lost in Los Angeles once on the East Side and it was black as midnight at high noon.

    Got otta there fast.

    In the Rocky Mountains there are very few blacks because it is too cold for them. They evolved in Africa and need heat or at least sunshine. Several feet of snow each winter drives them out.

    Where I live it is mostly lily white, including Mexicans too. We do have a lot of Appalachian white trash however. Recently one of them killed 2 people in 2 car-jackings.
     
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    I know cricket quite well. However, it is the T20 format that I enjoy because by comparison with other forms of international competition, it is short and sweet.

    By the way, the East New York section of Brooklyn where I grew up was the Mecca of American sports in the late 1800s. It had its own pro cricket team comprised mostly of Brits and won the national championship around 1894.
     
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    I live out in the country, but the neighbors are pretty much like me, retired military. I, white am married to a Thai gal. The neighbor on the right, retired air force, black is married to a Korean. My oldest daughter lives across the road, married a Laotian. A couple down the road, white retired army is married to a black woman and across from him is a black couple with no military at all. On the left of me is another retired white army guy married to a white woman.

    I don't know if this classifies as a neighborhood or not. But it is quite diverse race wise, not so much from a military aspect.
     
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    Yup I agree it is a great days sport. I go as often as I can to the internationals here, the atmosphere is fantastic espcially when you have the Indians or Pakistani teams playing... for them its a religion not a sport.
    One of the better British exports from our colonial days I guess?
     
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    It was the # 2 team sport in the USA up to the year 1900. That's says quite a lot!
     
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    I moved into a vacant , old house in an all-black, inner-city neighborhood around 1980 and renovated the house while living in it. Over time as the neighborhood became "gentrified", the neighborhood attracted members of all ethnic background until now it is predominately white.

    When I was the only white living in the neighborhood, I found that my neighbors & I all wanted pretty much the same things: security in our homes, to be treated with respect, decent jobs etc.
    The only time I had anything significant stolen was by white construction workers with whom I worked & it seemed that crime increased as time passed & more whites moved in.

    Since one of my favorite hobbies is target shooting, 20 years later I moved to the country & ended up buying my wife's grandparent's old farmhouse in a mixed race rural area.
     
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    I bet it's a good place to live.

    My 20 year military career is now 20 years in the past. I went from "The Projecs" to the Air Force. Other than them occasionally mentioning that racism wasn't welcome, I never saw any. All peoples mixed together as just people. The social distinctions were made by rank more than anything else.
     
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    Exactly. Being army, we were comrades in arms, brothers and sisters in uniform. Racism, outside of having to attend, first race relation class or later it became EO, equal opportunity classes, I never seen any either. You're correct about the rank, not race or creed. No one asked what race or creed, just that whomever had your back and you had his.

    Excellent place to live. I can't really say I have any pure civilian friends, all had or have something to do with the military.
     
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    Brixton have their own money
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    Current Brixton £notes.
    £1 = B£1 and B£ can only be exchanged for £.
     
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    I mean, no one uses it, but they have it.
     
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    Me and The Clash have the same accent

    I probably sound like a wigger, IDK.
     
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    I have a Cambridge accent.
    This gets me discriminated against in state schools.
     

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