OUT OF AFRICA

Have you been to svots.edu for a retreat lately? One thrd of the seminarians are Nigerians who did their undergrad in Greece. And Greek mommas beat their kids “I paid for eight years of Greek school and he speaks better than you!” The best Greek Bookstore (https://seaburn-books.com/) in NYC is Sam Chekwa’s in LIC. He studied dentistry in Greece and his books store carries a wealth of Greek and Nigerian titles.

In 2008, 18 percent of the nation’s immigrants lived in New
York City and Los Angeles County alone (only a slight decline from the 20 percent
figure in 2000)

…
In 2007-09, the
top two groups in the New York area — Dominicans and Chinese — made up 15 percent
of the region’s foreign-born. No other country accounted for more than five percent.

…
For many
years, politicians made ritual visits to the “three Is” — Israel, Italy, and Ireland — the
touchstones for so many Jewish and Catholic voters. By 2003, after two years in office,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg had already visited the Dominican Republic three times.

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Conor Andersen European Editor says:

August 29, 2022 at 2:42 pm

Pericles, Alex has asked me to ask you, to fix your google link, there’s obviously something wrong with it, many thanks!

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Kotsos Mazikas says:

September 13, 2022 at 11:47 am

Have you been to svots.edu for a retreat lately? One thrd of the seminarians are Nigerians who did their undergrad in Greece. And Greek mommas beat their kids “I paid for eight years of Greek school and he speaks better than you!” The best Greek Bookstore (https://seaburn-books.com/) in NYC is Sam Chekwa’s in LIC. He studied dentistry in Greece and his books store carries a wealth of Greek and Nigerian titles.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_New_York_City#:~:text=Passel%20of%20the%20Pew%20Hispanic,come%20from%20Africa%2C%20and%20two

https://www.socialexplorer.com/blog/post/social-explorer-s-andrew-beveridge-talks-about-new-census-estimates-on-ny1-video-4726

From https://escholarship.org/content/qt9wk9b621/qt9wk9b621_noSplash_4cd3258a22a639a61b937865faac7210.pdf:

In 2008, 18 percent of the nation’s immigrants lived in New
York City and Los Angeles County alone (only a slight decline from the 20 percent
figure in 2000)

…
In 2007-09, the
top two groups in the New York area — Dominicans and Chinese — made up 15 percent
of the region’s foreign-born. No other country accounted for more than five percent.

…
For many
years, politicians made ritual visits to the “three Is” — Israel, Italy, and Ireland — the
touchstones for so many Jewish and Catholic voters. By 2003, after two years in office,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg had already visited the Dominican Republic three times.

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