Unachievable Neighborhood Integration In America

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Unachievable Neighborhood Integration in America’s Large Cities The book “There Goes the Neighborhood” is an investigation into ethnic, racial, and class dynamics in four neighborhoods in Chicago, a city that has experienced a steep drop in its white population and a sharp rise in Latino residents. The chosen neighborhoods were consisted mainly of the working and lower middle classes which best represent ordinary Americans and the best destination for outside racial and ethnic groups seeking place to live. By investigating these four neighborhoods which are Beltway, Dover, Archer Park and Groveland, authors Wilson and Taub explains what produces or prevents the “tipping point” and other interesting and important facts of how Americans react on these changes. The process of writing this book wasn’t easy. It took more than 10 years to publish and it includes 3 years of careful researching. The most fascinating fact of this book is that researchers actually lived in these neighborhoods to observe the movements of residents caused by outside racial and ethnic groups. Interestingly, in each neighborhood, original residents have different opinion on outside racial and ethnic groups and integration of these racial and ethnic groups were hard to achieve. There are many reasons why in America’s large cities the integration of neighborhoods hard to achieve and there are several important ones which I want to analyze in this essay. First, I think social class is the most important factor why neighborhoods can’t be integrated in America’s large cities. In my country there is a saying: “full kid does not play with hungry kid” this is a perfect example of why neighborhoods can’t be integrated. In my opinion, social status divides everything even if you live in single ethnic countries like Russia, Mongolia, or Egypt. For example, wealthy people and poor

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