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| Arts and Culture |
| People and culture of Houston |
 The Williams Waterwall, which is adjacent to the Williams Tower. |
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 Fountain at Tranquility Park in Downtown |
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| Like many other large cities in the United States,
Houston is a very diverse city with a variety of different ethnic
groups. About 90 languages are spoken in the area. In some neighborhoods,
street signs are seen in Chinese and Vietnamese. |
| Because the Houston—Sugar Land—Baytown
and the Dallas—Fort Worth—Arlington metropolitan
areas are both the major economic centers of the state, they
enjoy a friendly rivalry. Houstonians often consider themselves
more "down to earth" than their neighbors to the north.
This rivalry often leads to comparison of the assets of one
city to the assets of the other. For example, although Dallas
has more restaurants per person than even New York City, Houstonians
eat out more often than residents of any other city in the United
States, and the only city in which eating out is cheaper than
Houston is New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| Several Houston-based restaurants, such as Ninfa
Laurenzo's Mama Ninfa's Mexican restaurant chain, Johnny Carrabba's
Carrabba's, and Kim Su Tran La's Kim Son Vietnamese restaurant
chain, have become well known in Texas and throughout the country.
The design for the first Compaq computer was sketched on a napkin
at House of Pies, a notable diner near the Montrose area. |
| Furthermore, aided by the popularity of the late
hip-hop artist DJ Screw, Houston is known among youth, primarily
in the South, as having its own distinctive style of hip-hop
commonly known as screw music or referred to locally as simply
"screw." Many young Houstonians of all ethnicities
and socioeconomic backgrounds who were in touch with the local
hip-hop culture may remember the advent of this form of Southern
rap which began to take place around late 1999. |
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