Around big diverse cities like NYC, LA or others on the coasts, Chicago, Toronto etc., how far away does the "diverse mix" feeling last as you leave the city, through their suburbs, to their exurban areas and then rural areas (assuming the city doesn't merge into another, equally diverse city)?
In some cases, the diverse mix of the city drops off into suburban areas, exurban or rural areas that are more small town "white American" or "white Canadian" but not always. For example, a diverse city can go from a mix of races/ethnicities to less densely populated areas that are non-white but still less diverse because it is one non-white race or ethnocultural group (eg. an "ethnoburb" type of suburb that is mostly middle class African American, such as in say Chicagoland, or one that is Asian American like the ones around Los Angeles). Or it could become less diverse because the big cities have more immigrants who carry the old country's cultures, and their ethnic stores/amenities while the smaller towns have more "assimilated" people.
This was partly inspired by discussion about how Toronto, in Canada may be really ethnically diverse, but the diversity drops off only an hour or so away, and how the big Canadian cities with lots of visible minorities drop off into majority white areas much quicker with distance than American cities.
For example.
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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Regarding race, downtown Toronto is such a huge mix of races that no one really comes to the forefront. While it may be "uncomfortable" for someone used to a nearly entirely white population, you don't feel like you are a minority like you might if you went to one of the suburbs where specific minority groups dominate the population.
The US is unique in its rural minority groups, which isn't something you see in Canada. Rural Canada is entirely white dominated. Driving through the Central Valley in California or rural Texas can bring you through dozens of Hispanic rural communities, something that absolutely doesn't happen north of the border.
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Also, I wrote in a Canadian forum thread.
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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Niagara Falls being a bigger city would be kind of interesting. It would stand well and be more well known as a Canadian city in its own right -- it'd be still in proximity to the GTA and Hamilton, and to the world famous tourist attraction everyone goes to see.
Regarding diversity and ethnic communities, it doesn't seem too far from the GTA to receive some spillover from there (as the western GTA's ethnocultural mix adds on to spills into Hamilton's sphere of influence). I mean an hour and half driving distance in good traffic between Niagara Falls and the diverse parts of Toronto isn't that different from say, big diverse US cities' metro areas spill into their suburbs, such as Los Angeles, or NYC, or Houston or Chicago. If the GTA was more like the way American cities' and suburbs diversity are spread out, there might be more of a scattering of ethnic communities across the Golden Horseshoe.
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