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Originally Posted by soopaman2
This reminds me of a childhood thought I had.
Pardon if it rambles off topic.
But I grew up in NYC.
I always found it amazing, even to this day, how if you walk 2 blocks out of little Italy, how the faces would change from white to Chinese (Chinatown is literally blocks away)
I do not mind ethnic enclaves, just watch where you eat.  I got asked to leave a place in Chinatown because I was disturbing the customers with my whiteness. They implied my food would not be as good, and perhaps I could find another place. Though my soda was free.
That is where I learned what gwailo meant.
I went back to Mulberry street and ate at Umbertos instead. |
Maybe you were one of
those places if you understand my meaning. A front business I bet they had a mahjong polar and they did not like your presence for that reason.
In the US you do have alot of ethnic neighborhoods some places don't really care if you are one of their kind or not some places do. I recall once in Germany I was going to the Bad Durkheim festival with some friends and we had to wait an hour for the train to sow up that would take us there.Well we decided to have a quick drink while we waited and we went into the first bar that we see.The bar lady was fairly nice and did get us our drinks but all of the other patrons seemed slightly displeased by our presence.That is when I noticed that they all had on blue coveralls this was a Blaumänner bar in other words skilled tradesmen and they have alot more pride than american blue color workers have.We where not one of them so they did not really want us there so we drank our beers and left.
Also some cultures are just not trusting of outsiders very much a good example are polynesians and other non whites from Hawaii they can be very friendly to anyone but they tend to
not trust outsiders.I made some fairly good friends with Hawaiians in the military sometimes they have get togethers and there will be very few non natives there so if you got invited that means the person who asked you to come considers you to be a very good friend and you'll probably be the only white person there and some will consider you a manahonie(crazy person) until they find out why you are there.