text: Move to nyc. Born and raised and above everything I am a New Yorker. When I grew up we had every ethnicity imaginable in our area and no one gave a shit what you were. Of course most people were black in my area (I'm from East New York, Brooklyn), but I learned how diverse even that could be. There were caribbeans, Africans, black Americans, white Americans, east asians, south asians, Europeans, you name it. My fiancee is Dominican, and my three best friends are Palestinian, Persian, and Italian lol. You end up becoming a little of everything and its great