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A poll just out of curiosity...
Real American:
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--- Quote from: Shallow on August 24, 2004, 04:59:56 PM ---However, correct me if I'm wrong, there aren't many Sri Lankens, if any at all, in New York, and not too many Somolians. We have the foriegn language signs on stores here too.
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I can honestly say that I have no idea what in the world a Sri Lankan is (nor do I really want to find out).
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Well I 'll tell you anyway. Sri Lanaka is a war torn country in Asia, near India. Sri Lankan people are very dark skinnined and the ones around here have a rather large asppreciation for Reggae music, the new Reggae. You know the dance hall stuff like Sean Paul. There is a very large population of them in Toronto. Percentage wise it's probably like the amount of Latinos in some US cities. They are also known as Tamils, for their religion I think, and many (but not most) are involved in crime. The Tamil Tigers is a militia in Sri Lanka that attempts to over throw the government there, or something like that, and many of it's members came here and continued their criminal ways, recruiting younger teens into their gangs.
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Well from that description I sure as hell don't want any Sri Lankans living by me. Let the Sri Lankans live in Sri Lanka!
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Tom Gotti on August 24, 2004, 06:18:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on August 24, 2004, 06:12:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on August 24, 2004, 06:02:42 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on August 24, 2004, 04:59:56 PM ---However, correct me if I'm wrong, there aren't many Sri Lankens, if any at all, in New York, and not too many Somolians. We have the foriegn language signs on stores here too.
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I can honestly say that I have no idea what in the world a Sri Lankan is (nor do I really want to find out).
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Well I 'll tell you anyway. Sri Lanaka is a war torn country in Asia, near India. Sri Lankan people are very dark skinnined and the ones around here have a rather large asppreciation for Reggae music, the new Reggae. You know the dance hall stuff like Sean Paul. There is a very large population of them in Toronto. Percentage wise it's probably like the amount of Latinos in some US cities. They are also known as Tamils, for their religion I think, and many (but not most) are involved in crime. The Tamil Tigers is a militia in Sri Lanka that attempts to over throw the government there, or something like that, and many of it's members came here and continued their criminal ways, recruiting younger teens into their gangs.
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yea we got sri lanakans in queens. we dont have a large neighborhood of them in queens tho. Im not sure of the BK n the bronx tho. But ive heard the ones in Tdot are crazy in the streets.
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They certainly aren't to be taken lightly. Based on the military training of the older ones, I'd say they're more dangerous than most (if not all) black gangs. Of Course I don't know how they'd stack up against the guy in in your sig. He was a pretty serious guy in his day. Italians pretty much control the docks around here and have a lot to do with how the Biker's conduct themselves, but the Tamils have their little peice of the pie too.
Shallow:
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on August 24, 2004, 06:25:34 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on August 24, 2004, 06:12:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on August 24, 2004, 06:02:42 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on August 24, 2004, 04:59:56 PM ---However, correct me if I'm wrong, there aren't many Sri Lankens, if any at all, in New York, and not too many Somolians. We have the foriegn language signs on stores here too.
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I can honestly say that I have no idea what in the world a Sri Lankan is (nor do I really want to find out).
--- End quote ---
Well I 'll tell you anyway. Sri Lanaka is a war torn country in Asia, near India. Sri Lankan people are very dark skinnined and the ones around here have a rather large asppreciation for Reggae music, the new Reggae. You know the dance hall stuff like Sean Paul. There is a very large population of them in Toronto. Percentage wise it's probably like the amount of Latinos in some US cities. They are also known as Tamils, for their religion I think, and many (but not most) are involved in crime. The Tamil Tigers is a militia in Sri Lanka that attempts to over throw the government there, or something like that, and many of it's members came here and continued their criminal ways, recruiting younger teens into their gangs.
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Well from that description I sure as hell don't want any Sri Lankans living by me. Let the Sri Lankans live in Sri Lanka!
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That's no way to look at things. I'm sure far enough down the line you come from immigrants too. Besides most of them are normal law abiding citizens that cause no problems. Much like Blacks or Sicilians, it's the minority of trouble makers that leave a bad image of the rest of them
tommyilromano:
I would prefer a place where everyone has the same culture or a culture very similar to mine. I grew up mostly in Messina, Italy and Barcelona, Spain but I also lived in the US and right now I am living in Turkey. Turkey isn't too bad because the culture is Mediterranean culture but I never could get used to the US but I didn't mind San Antonio when I lived there I felt sorta at home there.
tommyilromano:
It certainly isn't any city in Turkey... I haven't seen one black person (who isn't from an American military base) and I have been here around 5 months and traveled a good portion of the country. Ethnic here is being a kurd and they look just like the turks.
--- Quote from: Adon on August 23, 2004, 04:44:00 PM ---I just did a search for the most diverse place in the world (because I thought Vancouver was), and the results I got were, (in no order), Queens, San Franciso, Sacramento, Toronto and Vancouver. So I dunno.
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