Welcome to the U.S.'s Most Diverse City - Sacramento

I always new I lived in a pretty ethnically diverse area but wow!

Welcome to America's Most Diverse City - TIME

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"Sequoia Way is easy for travelers to overlook. Nestled in the middle-class neighborhood of Village Park on the south side of Sacramento, Calif., it is an unremarkable stretch of single-story frame houses. But if you stroll a bit along the winding road and visit Sequoia Way's residents, you will quickly realize there's something extraordinary about this street. You will meet Tom and Debra Burruss, who moved onto the street a couple of years ago. He's black and she's white, but on Sequoia the interracial union doesn't stand out. The Burrusses' next-door neighbors are also minorities, a Vietnamese couple named Ken Wong and Binh Lam. Living directly across are the Cardonas, a Hispanic-and-white couple. And nearby are the Farrys, a Japanese- and-white pair. In fact, sprinkled throughout the street are more flavors than you can get at Baskin-Robbins—Mexicans, African Americans, East Indians, Asians, you name it.

Now head downtown to William Land Elementary School. Here the classrooms are so ethnically diverse that teachers are considering switching from celebrating individual cultural holidays, like Black History Month, Cinco de Mayo and Chinese New Year, to holding a multiethnic festival. Of Land's 347 kids, 189 speak a language other than English at home. Immigrant parents are so common in Sacramento's public schools that one child volunteered that her father is also a foreigner—he's from New York.

Or go over to Downtown Plaza mall and chat with teenage couples like Kayla, 17, and Gerald, 18. Kayla's mother is white, and her father is black; Gerald's mother is Japanese, and his dad is black. As they munch pizza in a bustling food court as diverse as a U.N. cafeteria, Kayla shrugs her shoulders at the notion of same-race friendships. "Personally, it doesn't matter what color you are," she says. "I am mixed, he is mixed, and most everybody is mixed."

"So it goes in America's most integrated city, as determined in research for TIME by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University."

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I've seen enough people walking around who look like they share more than the average 4% of Neanderthal genes. As for behavioral comparisons, just visit one of the 4x4 or muscle car forums to observe typical paleolithic human behavior. lol

 

Except that I work in Auburn where everyone is old and white! lol

 

Depends on what you like to do for fun. There are plenty of hookers and drug dealers around here!

 

Only if you count Sun City. Otherwise everything east of Joiner Parkway is mixed up and younger! lol

I go to the Chamber of Commerce meetings though and judging from that, you are right.

 

You're not the only one. Your attempt at downplay is even cuter. :yawn: