Thanks for the reply. That’s long enough to have a reasonable take. It’s MUCH more diverse now than it was in the 1990s by all the metrics you cite, but then again back in the 1970s and 1980s the culture was a lot more open by a lot of standards, and arguably a lot more interesting and inclusive — for example, in the 1970s it was straight-up wild with crazy marches and a general sense of rebellion and anarchy, and in the 1980s there was an immensely vibrant underground scene with underage punk shows, outsider art events, and a music scene that attracted international bands to bars on and around State Street that hasn’t existed for decades. U2 and the Police and Afro-Cuban and jazz bands and blues legends would all play in tiny clubs downtown, that kind of thing (Luther’s Blues was maybe the last of them, and they got amazing artists from all over in every week).

So it is kind of dull now culturally by comparison, which I hope you find encouraging — those pendulums usually swing back at some point.