What is the most multi-cultural city in the world?

Question

I have heard NYC, London, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Chicago. I have been to all these cities and would say it is toss up between NYC and Toronto. I am leaning towards NYC because it is more proportionally diverse and Toronto lacks a strong hispanic community. I just wanted to get some additional opinions and facts.

Answer 1

The BIG APPLE IS THE MOST MULTI- CULTURAL

NYC-8,085,742 people

44%-white
27% African- American
27%- Hispanic
10%- Asian
2%- other
( Hispanic's may be of any race)

Largest Jewish community outside Israel, largest African American community in the US (around 2 million), second largest Hispanic community (around 2 million), largest Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Russian, Dominican and Italian communities in US. One of the largest Indian and Chinese communities in the US. Other significant ethnic groups include: Greeks, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Pakistani, Haitians, the Polish, Japanese, Koreans, Albanians, French, Mexicans, Irish, Brazilians, Vietnamese and Arabs.

Los Angeles-4,097,340 people
47%-white
11%- African American
46%- Hispanic
10%- Asian
( Hispanics may be of any race)

Second largest Jewish community in the US, largest Mexican communiy in US, largest hispanic community in the US and second largest spanish speaking city in the world, largest Iranian community outside of Iran. One of the largest Chinese and Pacific Islander Communities in the US. Other significant ethnic groups include: Salvadorians, Armenians, Russians, Filipinos, Guatemalans, Australians, African-americans, Indians, Japanese, Koreans, and Brits.

Toronto- 2,481,494 people
57.2% - White
8.3% - Black
25%- Asian
2 %- Hispanic
1 %- Filipino
7%- other

A majority of Torontonians still claim their ethnic origins as from Britain and Ireland, either in whole or in part. There are significant numbers of Chinese, Indian, Italian, Vietnamese, Tamil, French, German, Blacks, Portuguese, Iranian, Afgan, Greek, Polish, South American, Romanian, Russian, Scandinavia and Asians in the city..


London- 7,517,700 people

71 %- White
10%- South Asian
11%- Black
3%- mixed
1 %- Chinese
2%- other

71% of these seven and a half million people classed their ethnic group as white (classified as British White (50%), Irish White (3%) or "Other White" (8.5%)), 10% as Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or "Other Asian" (mostly Sri Lankan, Arab and other South Asian ethnicities), 11% as Black (15.5% as Black African, 5% as Black Caribbean, 1% as "Other Black"), 3% as mixed race (1% White and Black Caribbean), 1% as Chinese and 2% as Other (mostly Filipino, Japanese, and Vietnamese). 21.8% of inhabitants were born outside the European Union. The Irish are the largest foreign-born group in London (numbering approximately 200,000).


All of these cities are diverse, but I would go with NYC because it is the most equally diverse and a minority-majority city. I have lived or traveled to all these cities and New York is the most multi-cultural. Los Angeles is overwhelmingly Hispanic, and London is mostly Caucasian with most of the minorities being either Indian or Black. Toronto has many ethnic communities, but the Asian community dominates and as you stated it doesn't really have a Hispanic community. New York has it all and not one ethnic group dominates. Also, it is the largest multi-cultural city in the world.

Answer 2

London,
New York,
San Francisco,
based on their high diversity of people, ethnicities, religions, languages, sexual orientations, colors, races, etc.
They all have a large number of Museums and Cultural Monuments.

Most other cities are made of only a few large cultural groups. Like Berlin, Moscow, Paris...
Toronto is only diverse by Canadian Standards, and Montreal is more Multi-cultural.
Chicago doesn't have near the foreigners of NYC or SF.
L.A. is more than 50% Hispanic, not well mixed.

BUT LONDON is the only City in the world with a minority population from almost every country on EARTH. It is hands down the most multi-cultural.

Answer 3

New York! It is the only one of the cities that you mention where there is no one established ethnic group that runs the whole show. In fact, I think it is the only city in the world like that. London and Paris give it a run for its money, though, just in terms of cultural vitality.

Answer 4

If I had to guess, which I do, I would say New York. Only because most immagrant pass through New York coming into the country. Since this the first city they would see they would most likely get started there. Unless they had family somewhere else in the U.S. That would be my guess.

Answer 5

Bismark, North Dakota- Billings, Montana- Waco, Texas

Answer 6

NYC has like 200 different cultures (nationalities) living there. One guy even did a Photobook on it.

Answer 7

I think NY City but Seattle has got to be close up there on the list.
I visit there often and am never surprised to be the minority in restaurants, bars, stores etc

Answer 8

I think new orleans, is up near the top it has alot of different cultures there. But NYC is definetly up there.

Answer 9

I think it's definately New York
it's got people from all over, and most of the major ethnic groups even have their own neighborhoods!

Answer 10

New York hands down.