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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout
People seem to forget that culture is not ethnicity. The qualities that give a city its essence are generational, fluid and durable. In terms of race and ethnicity, New York is absolutely not the same city it was in the 1970s. But culturally it isn't that different. I know quite a few people who were raised in New York City and they are of Chinese, Jamaican, Egyptian, Italian, etc. descent... and all similarly "New York" in their outlook and mannerisms. Similarly, I have friends raised in Vancouver, all from different backgrounds — Persian, Chinese, Korean, Pakistani, anglo WASP — and despite having different mother tongues and ethnic origins, they all share a certain fundamental Vancouverness that is quite distinctive.
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This is something that the woketarian left either doesn't know or doesn't acknowledge due to how it conflicts with its essentialist view of race and ethnicity (which is, erm, essentially racist).
They approve of race as an initial marker for cultural difference when it comes to assigning virtue, entitlements and victim status, but don't if it gets used in the same way by long-time residents of neighbourhoods who are apprehensive about dramatic demographic changes.