New York: World's Most Multicultural City?
Today at 1pm, you can hear WNYC Radio's Leonard Lopate represent New York on the BBC's "contest" to find the world's most multicultural city (webstream at wnyc.org). We're up against London, Sydney, Toronto. Listeners can call in, and of course, vote by phone or email. WNYC already has a page devoted to listener's internet comments. While the program is about New York, I'd love to hear comments about Brooklyn. This is one point at which I feel my neighborhood (Carroll Gardens) doesn't represent. Thoughts?
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Actually, I think Los Angeles has become the most multicultural city in the US, as it isn't as white dominated culturally as NYC.
LA is home to the largest Mexican, Thai, Phillipino, Korean, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan populations outside of those countries. It also has the highest concentration of ex-pat Brits in the US, and I think it still has the highest Japanese population/concentration as well.
LA also has huge concentrations of Indian, Egyptian, Aussie, Kiwi, Armenian, Persian, etc...populations....plus all the misc folks that come for the film industry and or the largest port/shipping industry in the US.
NY does have LA beat in regard to the Irish and Italians, but that's about it.
Actually, it's Amsterdam which is the most multicultural city:
"As of 1 Jan 2007 people representing a total of 177 different nationalities are residing in the Dutch capital, making it once again the most multi-cultural city in the world. Antwerp comes in second with 164 nationalities, while New York has 150."
Answers the question. :P
From Wikipedia
Multicultural and racial diversity
In 2001, 43.7% of Torontonians were foreign-born.[1]
In 2001, 43.7% of Torontonians were foreign-born.[1]
Toronto is one of the world's most multicultural cities. In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ranked Toronto second, behind Miami, Florida, in its list of the world's cities with the largest percentage of foreign-born population. Miami's foreign born population is dominated by those of Cuban and Latin American descent, unlike Toronto whose foreign born population is not dominated by any one ethnic group.