Are Italian-Americans losing dominance in Northeast U. S???!!! (neighborhoods, elementary school)

[pgm123]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

How? There's hardly any immigration from Ireland anymore, or anywhere in Europe for that matter. If Italians are being displaced I would think it would be from Latinos.

This is becoming true of Philadelphia's Italian Market.

[Nanny Goat]

Originally Posted by ja1myn

I notice a lot of Italian women like to marry Latinos, specifically Puerto Ricans.

Food and family emphasis? Food is central in Italian's lives for sure. We grew up not remembering much else, but what we ate and when. Hehe.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by ja1myn

I notice a lot of Italian women like to marry Latinos, specifically Puerto Ricans.

You see them with Blacks as well and it goes both ways in terms of gender sometimes too.

[callmemaybe]

Originally Posted by NYMTman

Irish intermarry with WASPs and their children report their ancestry as Irish. Italians do that as well but are not quite as assimilated as the Irish.

Irish people are not WASPs.

WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Aside from maybe some northern Irish, that wouldn't describe the Irish.

[ja1myn]

Originally Posted by Upstate Nancy

Food and family emphasis? Food is central in Italian's lives for sure. We grew up not remembering much else, but what we ate and when. Hehe.

Lol quite true! They do both share similar values and customs.

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

You see them with Blacks as well and it goes both ways in terms of gender sometimes too.

Italian women with black men? I don't know if I have seem too much of that.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by ja1myn

Lol quite true! They do both share similar values and customs.



Italian women with black men? I don't know if I have seem too much of that.

You see it around here a little bit, with it being the other way around occasionally. I think some of it stems from integration of schools and a couple in particular in the area with a good amount of both groups.

[kyle19125]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

How? There's hardly any immigration from Ireland anymore, or anywhere in Europe for that matter. If Italians are being displaced I would think it would be from Latinos.

Originally Posted by pgm123

This is becoming true of Philadelphia's Italian Market.

In the case of Philadelphia's Italian Market, far more Asian....particularly the Vietnamese and a smattering of Laotians and Cambodians.

[ja1myn]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

You see it around here a little bit, with it being the other way around occasionally. I think some of it stems from integration of schools and a couple in particular in the area with a good amount of both groups.

Italian men with black women? That's even more unrecognized to me lol.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

In the case of Philadelphia's Italian Market, far more Asian....particularly the Vietnamese and a smattering of Laotians and Cambodians.

Same here in Syracuse's North Side. I'd say the only difference is that around here, there are other refugee groups on that side of town now too.

To ja1myn, it doesn't occur a lot, but you see it both ways.

[WRosado]

Originally Posted by pgm123

This is becoming true of Philadelphia's Italian Market.

I am half Italian and half Puerto Rican... this is happening all over Cleveland as well. Certain parts of the city and its suburbs are over 40% hispanic. NE Ohio has been one of the bigger importers of Puerto Ricans. They go to school in Puerto Rico and come to the US after college.