scrubbedexpat097

Really?

Redwing

Similar to where I live too; in fact, saw it today at lunch. We also have at least one mixed race cemetery.

lizzyq

Once somebody is six feet underground how can you tell?

Redwing

If you talk to some of their relatives, you would be surprised!!

Pulaski

Tell your husband about "breastaurants" ..... it's a recognized restaurant subcategory that is even discussed by investment analysts. Hooters invented the genre, but there are now several other chains including Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt, and Bikinis.

Yorkieabroad

[QUOTE=Redwing;11617069]Similar to where I live too; in fact, saw it today at lunch.[QUOTE]

I'd never really thought about it, but I guess we probably see more "mixed" tables at lunch with colleagues eating together, than at dinner with families eating together - my guess is that families are more likely to be single race units than offices. That said, we live in a cul de sac of four houses, and each couple is mixed - 1 Egyptian Husband and 3 Caucasians (UK, US,US), 2 wives from different SAmerican countries, 1 Oriental () wife and 1 Caucasian. I guess if we all went out to eat in the same restaurant we would really skew the profile

Someone earlier tried to score a point for PA by quoting the lunch/colleague scenario there to compare to the dinner scenario here, but I suspect that that is true in most states that have a diverse populace.

I think most of the restaurants we go to have quite a diverse clientele, although the make up within the individual tables themselves may be less diverse out of work hours, purely because (my assumption that) there are a lot more single race families than there are mixed race families - I don't think our cul de sac is typical. The main exception I see on the restaurats is when we go to some of the hole in the wall type places in Chinatown when I may comment if I am not the only 'ang moh' in the place


I honestly have no idea about the races buried in our cemeteries - not somewhere I hang out very often

fozzyb

It may not be that all that atypical for some parts of the country.

In the street where I lived in Mountain View, 6 out of the 8 houses had mixed race couples (including us).

Pulaski

I am currently the only non-American living in our cul-de-sac. All the other residents are white. An Indian couple recently moved out of a house that is vacant.

When I worked in London, I worked for the same manager for the last four years I was there. During that time, after she was promoted to manager, she hired ten people - every one of those, including me, had a foreign wife or girlfriend, except for the only woman she hired, ..... who's husband was from New Zealand. Aside from Mrs P, the nationalities represented included Irish, Spanish, German, Russian (2), Moroccoan, and Ghanian. Another colleague in the department who had been hired previously had an Austrian wife.

TopSec

I guess because of the Oil/Gas industry here in Houston there are a rather large number of expats and especially so in the area we're in. I would say half of the families in our apartment complex are 'foreigners'

Different subject, back to the difference between UK/US. I sometimes forget to ask for Baked Potato and say Jacket Potato instead - that usually floors the server, they have no idea what I'm on about

Yorkieabroad

I like that about here, too (Katy) - I posted recently about how many different nationalities there were in the Elementary School my youngest goes to. I think the youngsters are truly "blind" to race/color - unfortunately I suspect they will "grow out of" that, but the longer it lasts, the better as far as I'm concerned.

TopSec

This thread just got me thinking about mixed race marriages (I guess I'm really talking black/white?) Years ago when I left my very rural North Yorkshire farm to work in London, I recall seeing a photo on a colleagues desk with 2 black children on it and I could never understand who they were as she was white, it was weeks before I realised they were her children. Just shows how naive I was.

scrubbedexpat097

And hopefully as each generation ages there will be less and less race/color intolerance.

BTW...good luck with the MS150 to both you and young Yorkie. Hope the weather cooperates

Yorkieabroad

I can vividly remember our headmaster in secondary school holding an assembly specifically to tell the whole school that after the holidays there would be 2 colored kids joining and how we were to behave with them. At that time our town was over 99% white, with a tiny smattering of Chinese. This was in the mid 70's. When I went to university a few years later, that was my first real exposure to other races. A few poncy southerners, too

Yorkieabroad

[QUOTE=Sugarmooma;11617909]
And hopefully as each generation ages there will be less and less race/color intolerance. [QUOTE]

Indeed.

Thanks - and thanks for sponsoring him too - I just saw that this morning. Not sure if he has seen it yet as he was off camping this weekend, and then buried under a mound of homework when he got back, but he'll be sending a "thank you" too. Weather not looking too clever....wind on the nose and very high chance of rain both days last time I checked....it's going to be a "character building" ride!!

TopSec

[QUOTE=Yorkieabroad;11617947][QUOTE=Sugarmooma;11617909]
And hopefully as each generation ages there will be less and less race/color intolerance. Yes there was a Chinese takeaway in Malton but that was it! When I left Yorkshire to work in London, my Mothers parting comment (she wasn't too happy about me going) was "don't be coming back up here with any pansy southerners"

We went out to buy 'stormproof' cycling jackets at the weekend (before everyone else realised!). Our 'showerproof' turned out to be as good as useless! Which team are you riding for?