Yes there were and are ethnic areas all over the city and we went to those areas to get our favorite foods too. Yet when I was growing up I felt that the divide was over race. Unlike New York City, where your ethnicity is the driving force, in Detroit we saw each other by color. All my white friends had their ethnic backgrounds, with their food and celebrations and we all took part in each other's fun, so to speak. But as children we seemed to identify with our color first. Not to say that our parents did, they probably were deeply wedded to thier ethnic identity. It could also be that when I was a kid race was a big issue, big in Detroit and across the country. Our ethnic backgound was not an issue, we just lived them we did discuss them. However race was talked about all the time.
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Yes there were and are ethnic areas all over the city and we went to those areas to get our favorite foods too. Yet when I was growing up I felt that the divide was over race. Unlike New York City, where your ethnicity is the driving force, in Detroit we saw each other by color. All my white friends had their ethnic backgrounds, with their food and celebrations and we all took part in each other's fun, so to speak. But as children we seemed to identify with our color first. Not to say that our parents did, they probably were deeply wedded to thier ethnic identity. It could also be that when I was a kid race was a big issue, big in Detroit and across the country. Our ethnic backgound was not an issue, we just lived them we did discuss them. However race was talked about all the time.