I don't really understand how it's possible to live in this country and not speak english

wtf do they do

@ophiuchus It's not hard in California.

I mean my dad's is fine I guess

my mom still has trouble with weirdly simple stuff

Can confirm that Southern California you don’t need English

It would literally be impossible here

She works at a grocery store, so she interacts with people every day. She just doesn't want to improve.

I mean, I had to learn fluent ebonics to live in this town

I've explained concepts to her multiple times. She just doesn't care.

@Grayson Sounds really neat, sometimes I wish my dad would have raised me closer to the LDS church. I would have loved to have gone to Cyprus and Romania to be a missionary

@ophiuchus Where. Birmingham? Montgomery?

You'll get to the point where you hear "funnagonnawanna" and don't flinch

@Hakujin - CA Birmingham

Gross! Why?

Very! Scholarship gibs

I got into Vanderbilt but it was $$$$$$$$$$$

I will say, if I hadn't moved here, I probably wouldn't be in IE

So everything happens for a reason

@Jacob My grandparents learned english extremely fast and were already fairly fluent before they came to America

There really is nothing more eye opening than the culture shock of living around “diverse” communities.

I can actually survive in Birmingham because of how strongly ethnically segregated this place is

I wouldn't be in IE without growing up in Southern California. Becoming more of a Mexican state everyday.

I’ve lived in mostly black areas before, but I live in a white but struggling area now.

It’s funny how I can live in one of the poorest parts of the country with little to no violent crime.

@Hector really makes you think

@Hector I grew up in a mostly black area too.

This county contains the poorest and richest zipcodes in the state

You can drive from one to the other in 15 minutes

If I didn't grow up around immigrants I probably wouldn't be in IE

If Europeans have issues here, have fun trying to assimilate non-Europeans

Exactly.

It’s terrible going back to my childhood home and seeing it covered in graffiti that’s almost 100% put there by blacks.

Like I said to my father who called me a radical, he got to grow up in a 99% white area, while I was forced to go to a school system with 30 percent illegal immigrants.

He has no right to spit on me while I try to change my world.

There actually are initiatives to diversify Appalachia now, by the way. Ones that even most of us here probably haven’t heard of.

There's already the initiative to diversify New Hampshire, it's actually really funny

Basketball is huge in this state, and every tiny little school is importing blacks from the inner cities in to play ball for their schools.

sportsballcapitalism : (

I saw a thing that gave the best and worst parts about each state, for new hampshire it was "very low crime" and worst was "diversity"