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In cities around the world,
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diversity is common today.
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But one neighborhood in the United States
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is one of the most diverse places in the world.
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Welcome to Queens, New York.
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How are you doing?
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What's happening?
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We're all immigrants!
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Who understands an immigrant
better than an immigrant?
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To see how diverse a place is,
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a 2001 study used this idea:
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Choose two people randomly.
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Then, answer this question:
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How different is their language and their culture?
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The study learned that the most diverse place
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in the United States was Queens, New York.
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Almost fifty percent of the people in Queens
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are from another country.
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They come from 100 different nations,
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and they speak almost 150 different languages!
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No group is the majority here.
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Other neighborhoods might have more immigrants.
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But only in Queens are there so many different cultures
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and nationalities all in one place.
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I know that I am from Madras, the southern part of India.
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My parents live there and my grandparents live there.
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My mom's from South Korea
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and on my father's side
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I am German, Irish, English,
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and I think a little bit Native American
but that part I'm not sure.
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My great grandfather was Puerto Rican, and his parents
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were Puerto Rican and so on and so forth,
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so as far as I know, we've always been Puerto Rican.
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Queens isn't the most diverse place in the world.
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Other cities in Africa and India
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have as much or even more diversity.
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But for now,
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Queens is the most diverse place in the U.S.,
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and people in this community seem happy about that.