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farvacola
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ThomasjServo
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The mob history of a lot of it lends it self to broad stroke jokes about the Italian heritage of its residents. Where as for my state Minnesota, we are largely of Scandinavian ancestry so jokes about us, are about how passive aggressive we are, stand offish, and how fucking cold it is where we live, though not right now it isn't oddly. | ||
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frogrubdown
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On January 20 2015 22:21 SoSexy wrote: so other states make fun of it? It doesn't sound ver comical to me o.o The joke is that the only thing that matters about New Jersey is that you have to drive through it to get between the actually important places (DC/Philly to NYC/Boston mostly). The person asking the question is showing that they only know Jersey via the turnpike. | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
On January 20 2015 22:21 SoSexy wrote: so other states make fun of it? It doesn't sound ver comical to me o.o Jersey kinda has this whipping boy place in American culture. For instance: In the Godzilla movie with the skinny monster, there's a joke about how the worst thing about the monster destroying NYC is that they all have to crash in NJ. There's also a common joke that NJ is the "armpit of America," which is partly a geographical observation (They say the same thing about Gujrat in India for the geography reason) but is also a slam on the place being perceived as dirty. But Jersey is a weird state, hard to generalize about. It's basically four different zones. The north is "New York City's parking lot" and while not everyone there personally works in NYC, many do and the whole economy is based around the NYC economy. The south is "Philadelphia's parking lot" and has a vaguely similar role to that city. The middle is generally very poor and very mismanaged, with some of the US's most dangerous cities. The coast or, in Jersey-speak, "Shore" is a cheap resort zone, which has a largely classist bad reputation for being "trashy" since it's a resort area that caters to the middle class and new rich. A popular TV show about a bunch of Staten Islanders who lived there has amplified that impression. New Jersey has a lot of conflicting reputations as a result of all of this. New Yorkers see is as a "wannabe NYC," where a lot of people look at its center and talk about mismanagement, the mafia (large population from southern Italy settled in NJ, and are often bashed as the "trashy" segment), and corruption. Making fun of how dense (densest state in US) or industrial it is is common (the State calls itself the "Garden State" due to tomato production, but this is likewise mocked) So most of the US makes fun on NJ in one way or another, but Jersey people can often be highly defensive of their state as being a place that makes you tough. Bruce Springsteen kinda epitomizes all the conflicting emotions about NJ in quite a few of his songs, "My Hometown," "Jersey Girl," "My City of Ruins," probably most of all "4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy)." Edit: the above answer is good for the specific Turnpike Question. NJ has two major roads, the Turnpike and the Parkway, and both of these run from NY to Philly via different routes. The NJ airport, Newark, is also very heavily trafficked and kind of a shitshow, so a lot of people only see NJ from its terminal. | ||
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ThomasjServo
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GGuMake
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On January 20 2015 22:23 farvacola wrote: Well that's the thing; folks are more likely to make of fun of New Jersey for its smell, Camden, urban decay, or the supposed manners of its citizens than their roadways lol. True Fact about NJ: NJ is the only state that has 0 laws regarding incest, as long as both parties are over 18. Now... that's gross. | ||
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Kupon3ss
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ThomasjServo
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farvacola
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rudimentalfeelthelov
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ThomasjServo
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On January 21 2015 10:52 rudimentalfeelthelov wrote: Out of 10 babies who are born around the world, how many of them are white, how many are asian etc.? In an continental sense, Asia would likely take the cake, same as if you were to mean ethnically Asian (SEA up to Japan, out to the more Western more portions of China.) That being said, India is a part of Asia and they would be a close second ethnically I am sure. probably upwards of 50% for that continent. | ||
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frogrubdown
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On January 21 2015 10:52 rudimentalfeelthelov wrote: Out of 10 babies who are born around the world, how many of them are white, how many are asian etc.? I checked here, but the UN is apparently still learning the whole "rank numbers by size" thing. So I copied it and did that sorting and uploaded the image: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/9Axowfw.jpg) The numbers are all in thousands and the data is from 2011, as indicated on the website. Sorting these countries into the racial percentages and doing the arithmetic are left as an exercise for the reader. edit: Imgur Link | ||
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ThomasjServo
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frogrubdown
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On January 21 2015 11:43 ThomasjServo wrote: pics broken yo Haven't had that problem before with imgur. I edited in a link that hopefully works. | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
On January 21 2015 10:52 rudimentalfeelthelov wrote: Out of 10 babies who are born around the world, how many of them are white, how many are asian etc.? I actually did the math out on something like this once upon a time. I was thinking about how Star Trek bridges are usually mostly white with a few tokens, and was asking, if you really eliminated poverty and gave everyone an equal shot to be a starship officer, what 8-10 people would you have on the bridge (on average)? I don't have my numbers on me, but here's a rough guess of what you'd get (as a statistical average) if you grabbed people at random and put them in a room, not advancing the clock at all: By zone: 2 South Asians (most likely Chinese) 2 East Asians (most likely Indian) 1+ American (continent, about a third from the country) 1 Sub-Saharan African 1 European 1 Southeast Asia 1- Middle East and North Africa Race largely follows these lines; most world regions have a huge majority race, if you define by the broad strokes "color method". Europe is broadly around 96% ethnic European or "White," for instance. This method of course scrubs the differences between Japanese and Chinese, Polish and Spanish, Punjabi and Tamil, and Hutu or Tutsi, so it's a very rough estimate, even if it's the usual way of thinking of ethnicity in the US. (Hell, officially the US counts Arabs as white and Pakistanis the same as Philipinos the same as Japanese!) With that aside, the big exception is the Americas, which are heavily multiracial with substantial white, black, AmerIndian, and mixed populations. So basically, in laymans terms, the room will have (very roughly, and sorry in advance if my memory's bad: 5 Asians (2 South Asian, 2 East Asian, 1 SE Asian) 2 White (1 American, 1 European. Decent chance of the American being mixed with AmerIndian) 1 Black (could be more) 1 Middle Easterner/North African 1 Wildcard! To get your actual baby question, multiply by birth rates. | ||
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frogrubdown
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South Asia: 37402 Sub-Saharan Africa: 32584 East Asia and Pacific: 28448 Latin America and Caribbean: 10790 Middle East and North Africa: 10017 Central and Eastern Europe: 5823 Out of a total of 135056. That would put sub-saharan africa alone at ~2.5 of the ten, and presumably more black people are born outside of sub-saharan africa than non-black people within it. | ||
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SoSexy
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