Do they exist, because people wanted to get-away from other people? (generally) and does this maintain and divide, promoting a rift that widens with each successive generation?
2007-01-24 02:51:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Economics while making sense, is usually a convenient excuse - I'm looking for truth. For example: Brooklyn, NY has homes over a wide, wide stretch that will go for $4-15 mil, interspersed with families on assistance (Manhattan, even more so). If I say inner New Orleans and Katrina damaged homes - you wouldn't think of the 1000s of homes that were all over $1 million through inner city.
2007-01-24 03:50:57 · update #1
It's only natural to want to group and raise a family with your own kind. We have an Italian colony about 15 miles down the road. They are very friendly people and do not exclude others from coming in to visit, but they understand their own culture and chose a long time ago, to colonize themselves. I respect these people a lot, as do others. They are good clean, family oriented people that chose to keep parts of their own culture. Nothing in the world wrong with that.
2007-01-24 03:02:58 · answer #1 · answered by smcdevitt2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel like it does, I live in the suburbs and feel very comfortable and not discriminated against. The suburbs are define as places outside of the city that's all. They are nice neighborhoods that people like to live in because they don't want to live in the city. And then there are those people who don't want to live in the suburbs because they are city-people. It's just a matter of choice.
2007-01-24 10:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to have to agree that it is less about race than it is about wealth. People are always drawn to similar people no matter where they are. Lets face it, you not going to be seeing a lot of cowboys at a hip hop concert and your not going to be seeing a lot of black men at the Grand Ole Opry. Both are welcome at both but they are not drawn to it. Suburbs are more about "keeping up the the Jones" then a separation of race.
2007-01-24 11:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope it doesn't - I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
The fact is, though, the the farther out away from the City you go, it gets more expensive to live. So, its not so much a division of race, but a division of those with money, and those without.
There is a two-million dollar home about one half mile from my house. The folks who live there is a surgeon at a Philadelphia Hospital and his wife, who is a marketing supervisior for IBM.
They are black people. But, they have lots and lots of money.
2007-01-24 10:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, my suburb is a mix of people and we sought out the suburbs for reasonably priced housing. There were other factors included in why we looked for housing where we did, but none of them included race.
2007-01-24 10:58:16 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not so much to get away from people who are different , but a desire to be among people who a like them.
2007-01-24 10:54:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋