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I think I am fairly tolerant of new immigrants to New York. Will someone please explain to me though why Guyanese immigrants have to have noisy parties with microphones and loudspeakers? They seem to have absolutely no regard or respect for their neighbors. We had to actually call the police one night when one of their parties went on until 4 A.M. As soon as the police left the first time, they turned the music up again. Finally, the police had to come two more times, the final time telling the people that the party had to disperse. Of course, then the police were told that these Guyanese people had a right to have a party and make as much noise as they wanted, that they were Americans. The police told them that we had rights too.
I just don't understand why these new immigrants think they can run rough shod over other people with no regard to their neighbors' comfort and rights.
What neighborhood is this going on in? Yes West Indian people have very loud and busy parties but this is not exclusive to one culture. You just happen to live near some very rude,arrogant(which explains why the cops kept coming back) neighbors.How frequent are these parties? If you two must co-exist since you're neighbors I suggest that you confront them, particularly with other neighbors and kindly ask them to be respectful of others and keep the noise down one day.
What neighborhood is this going on in? Yes West Indian people have very loud and busy parties but this is not exclusive to one culture. You just happen to live near some very rude,arrogant(which explains why the cops kept coming back) neighbors.How frequent are these parties? If you two must co-exist since you're neighbors I suggest that you confront them, particularly with other neighbors and kindly ask them to be respectful of others and keep the noise down one day.
At the time of the incident I mentioned, we lived in Ozone Park, Queens. We have subsequently moved from that area. It just seems that the new immigrants now expect us to conform to their culture instead of their assimiliating into ours.
By the way,we tried to confront them and were told very rudely that they were NOT going to turn their music down. It was a two family house and our other neighbors were all either Indian or Mexican. I know we should have checked out the neighborhood more thoroughly before we moved there. We had moved out of New York six years before and settled in New Orleans. We were forced out of N. O. because of Hurricane Katrina and decided to come "home" to N. Y. Unfortunately, we didn't realize how very, very much New York had changed from what we remembered.
I'm West Indian and I couldn't have been more offended by the first post.
While I didn't mean to offend (were you the noisy neighbor that caused us so much misery?), your attitude just solidifies what I said in my original posting.
Are you West Indian or American? Where do your loyalties lie? Are you trying to assimiliate into American culture?
Firstly, I am Jamaican. Born and raised. I am not American and I will never consider myself another nationality regardless of what passport I carry. Don't worry, I do not want to assimilate myself into your culture or be a part of it at all. I only speak for myself when I say that.
I think they should have informed you of the party beforehand and kept the noise to an acceptable level after hour but I take offense to your saying that these "new immigrants" have no respect for their neighbour's comfort. It was such a loaded statement.
Lastly, for your information, Guyanese folks are not new immigrants at all. I know Guyanese people who have lived in NY for 30, 40 years.
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