Now there's a new way to understand the ethnic variance around New York City and, well, everywhere else.

Thanks to Assistant Professor of Geography and Director of Center for Urban Studies at Texas Christian University Kyle E. Walker, Ph.D., we've come across these fascinating color dot maps of immigration patterns on CityLab. 

Dr. Walker has developed a series of dot color maps illustrating how immigrants of different origins have moved and settled around America, and the map of NYC is especially distinct.

It's especially interesting to see how the data coincides with what we know to be true about certain ethnic neighborhoods.

For example, East and Southeast Asian immigrants are marked in green. 

One can clearly see a high concentration of green around Manhattan's Chinatown on the Lower East Side, as well as deep in Queens where many Asian communities are known to thrive.

Not much of a surprise that many Europeans ended up in Midtown. The Bronx is of course mainly blue, for Latin Americans with a healthy dose of purple, denoting African Americans.

It's truly eye opening to see the "melting pot" theory we've all grown up with illustrated in a color coded dot map. Regardless of how appropriate the "melting pot" analogy actually is-- some say we're more of a salad bowl-- it's undeniable that there is a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds in NYC.

via City Lab

We're all living in very close proximity, and many neighborhoods have a few main ethnic groups comprising their majorities.

It's nice to see an objective visual demonstration of reality because many times we don't pay attention to the City in this way.

And sure, lots of people talk about lots of so-and-so's living at such-and-such, but Dr. Walker's maps exemplify these discussions in such a straightforward way that they can have a special way of reminding of what you may already know.

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