How many nationalities in your home place?

[lord of the mark]

I take it you are including foreign born, but not foreign origin? Does degree of assimilation matter?

I'll assume it does not. on my little town house cul de sac alone, weve got, that I know about, a Chinese family, a Kuwaiti married to a Russian, and a Hungarian (QOTM) Thats counting only foreign born.

Id suggest there isnt a state in the world that isnt represented in metro DC (even if you exclude the diplo community). And plenty of "national groupings" from within states - Kurds as well as Arab Iraqis and Turks, Tibetans as well as Han Chinese, multiple ethnicities at least from the major african countries.

Our handyman is Egyptian (replacing a Pakistani). Our daughters school friends include an Iranian (Secular, not Jewish) and a Russian, and I think an Indian. At our synagogue our friends include an Iranian, a Moroccan, a Swede, and some Israelis. Our neighborhood has numerous central Americans, esp Salvadorans.

The Fairfax County Public Schools website, has links to translations in the following languages:Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Viet Namese.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Locutus
Enschede has about 150 nationalities on 150,000 inhabitants, so in terms of # of nationalities per 1,000 inhabitants must be setting some kind of record...

Umeå has around 130 nationalities / 110.000 people, which makes us approximately 18.2% more diverse than your town

[Colon™]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
I take it you are including foreign born, but not foreign origin? Does degree of assimilation matter?

I'm asking about how many different nationalities there are in your city/town/village. Really, I don't know how I can put it any more simple.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Colon™


I'm talking about how many different nationalities there are in your city/town/village. Really, I don't know how I can put it any less complicated.

On the one hand, here in the US, people often speak of their ethnicity even if they were born here. On the other hand, my wife, who was born in Hungary, but left when she was 3, and who remembers only a smatter of Magyar, hardly considers herself "Hungarian". In the US its not at all unreasonable for a naturalized citizen to simply assert that their nationality is "American".

[Colon™]

And he'd be correct, wouldn't he?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Colon™
And he'd be correct, wouldn't he?

so you only want to know how many different nationalities there are, counting only folks who havent been naturalized? Id have to check formal statistics, as I dont know the citizenship status of everyone I meet.

[chequita guevara]

200+ I live in South Florida.

[Zkribbler]

The last I heard, L.A. is the most ethnicially diverse city in the U.S. --and my guess: the world.

[Kuciwalker]

DC = NY

[:) Smiley]

Maybe in this poll. But for everything else, DC << NY

[Bosh]

Seongnam, South Korea << ALL

Today the most ethnically diverse person I saw was one person in the subway mumbling in their own private language!

For teh win!

[Spiffor]

I couldn't find stats for Paris. I'd expect it to be 200+ as well.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Colon™
I'm not reffering to ethnicities actually. I'm pretty sure China and Nigeria have only one nationality.

Yes but Kurds and Karens and Palestinians all regard themselves as being 'nations'.

And in the case of the Kurds there are a lot more of them than there are inhabitants of small Pacific atoll 'nations'...

[Kuciwalker]

There are a lot more Southerners too, but we don't count them as Confederates (just morans).

[Kuciwalker]

Is Zkrib the new MrFun?