Cultural Diversity In New York

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Diana Jomir.
New York is a major destination for immigrants of different nationalities, culture, and beliefs and they formed different ethnic enclaves. The population of New York speaks on 800 languages and contain 19,746,227 people of different cultures and nationalities (http://quickfacts.census.gov/).
Due to immigrants attachment to kinship networks, New York neighborhood tend to attract more recent entrants, what lead to the formation of ethnic enclaves, where those immigrants reside. New York is a rich in ethnic diversity with 200 different nationalities counted to be a part of NY( German, Russia, Swedish, Dutch and Greek ancestry)((http://quickfacts.census.gov/). New York divided into regions where resides predominantly population

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