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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Speaking of this, I was out the other night with a friend of mine (not a close friend, but more than an acquaintance) and I asked him how he likes his new neighborhood (he moved somewhat recently to southern Beverly Hills). He got close to me and said something like "I like it okay, but... [quieter] there's too many Persians. At night it's like little Tehran over there."
I didn't take that opportunity to mention to him that my nieces are half Persian, though I probably should have. This is an acceptable group to be prejudiced against now? I mean, he's made homophobic sorts of statements in front of me before, even knowing that I have gay friends, so maybe he's all around clueless, but I wonder whether he would have felt so comfortable saying that stuff to me if the group had been blacks? I'm always curious what makes people think that these sorts of statements are okay.
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Isn't it okay to feel uncomfortable living in a very ethnically homogenous area, if you aren't part of it? I actually would like living in a Persiany neighborhood, but I do understand that others like to be around their own kind. How do you think a heavily Persian neighborhood gets to be a heavily Persian neighborhood?
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