47% detroiters can' read.

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gsvol said:
People like you are why I supply a link and quote most of the time, which some complain about.

My statement is from personal contact from someone who told me that most of the business signs on the north side of Detroit are in Arabic.

My next door neighbor's brother lived most of his life in Dearborn, owns a house there and draws a huge retirement check from Chrystler.

I sold him a few guns until he told me the Arabs always have the cash to pay good money for guns, and when he said that, that was the last gun I'll ever sell to the dumb SOB no matter what.
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So you guesstimated from gossip you heard through a friend of a friend? C'mon man. If you want people to take you seriously you can't post arbitrary garbage like that and try to pass it off like fact.

Although I am a fifth year senior at UT, I am originally from Atlanta. There are many cultural hotbeds within the city which speak only their native language. The locals are first generation immigrants, many of which do not speak English. To appeal to their clientele, many small business owners advertise and have their business signs in the native language of the cultural community in which they are located. This phenomenon is not special to Atlanta nor Detroit. This happens across the country in all major Metropolitan areas. The existence of cultural communities in large Metropolitan areas in no way indicates all or most residents speaking that particular language or practicing those particular customs. In fact, in very large urban settings such as Atlanta, it is not uncommon for there to be several different cultural communities. None of which could ever be conceived of as being representative of the city as a whole.
 
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Cartervol said:
So why is there so many Arabs in Michigan again? What are they doing there? How is that they have a lot of money and seem to be thriving when the city is in shambles and half the population has moved? Could they be some of the problem?
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No.
 
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#28
gsvol said:
People like you are why I supply a link and quote most of the time, which some complain about.
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Most people complain about your links because they're either lacking in credibility or are just downright offensive.
 
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Cartervol said:
So why is there so many Arabs in Michigan again? What are they doing there? How is that they have a lot of money and seem to be thriving when the city is in shambles and half the population has moved? Could they be some of the problem?
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Can't find a better footbath in North America than Michigan. Ummmm sand and sun also. :good!:
 
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#32
Cartervol said:
So why is there so many Arabs in Michigan again? What are they doing there? How is that they have a lot of money and seem to be thriving when the city is in shambles and half the population has moved? Could they be some of the problem?
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Classic racism is classic.
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VOLatile said:
You make fun of his name, but have you listened to or read any of his lyrics? Eminem might be the best writer to ever come out of Detroit, fwiw.
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Jack White, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, Glenn Frey (co/head writer of the Eagles). Even Kid Rock is a better writer than Eminem who wasn't even born in Detroit. Didn't live there until he was somewhere around his early teens, I think. If we're talking about people who originated from Detroit that opens most of motown and a lot more of the 70-90s rock scene.


On topic:

A crime ridden and broken economical city has low reading comp scores? Never would have figured. Also, most of the middle-easterners in the Detroit area left the Middle East due to persecution. I should add one of my best friends is a Chaldean that moved to TN from Dearborn. Been up there and met a whole lot of people (funny how meeting the people instead of just blindly stereotyping is a more effective form of coming to a conclusion) and they're, in my opinion, better people than a lot of kids at my high school (christian affiliation). So, chew on that.
 
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#41
not many of us up here, so welcome to the Midwest..
Where you'll get enough Big Ten and Notre Dame coverage to make you nauseous
 
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