Here is New York
Whites starts off defining New York by what it isn't to show how bad it is and what it is made up of. White puts a nasty taste in my mouth about New York by talking about people committing suicide and the pedestrians that are walking past only walk faster to get out the way. In a way this shows cold hearted people in New York. A traveler would see mass crowds and get swallowed up by the people that are walking down the street. One of the main problems in New York is the population and how big it is. People maneuver around others and find their own routes to their destination to compensate for the population.
White's idea of neighborhoods as being cities relate to my Chicago experiences because Chicago is the most segregated city in the US because every neighborhood is named after the people that live there. For example, Little Italy, Greek town, Ukrainian Village, and Chinatown are all neighborhoods in Chicago that can be considered as little cities.
An Account of Experiences with discrimination
A community shapes people and their beliefs because that's what they are around and they are influenced by the people in the community. Many people in the south were racist that racism spreaded because others where influenced. Truth went through a lot of racism and after slavery was over people still looked down on African Americans because of the widespread of segregation.
Primary source are experiencing the event first hand. A reporter gets his information from a primary source making the reporter a secondary source. I feel that a primary source is more reliable and is real. In this case, primary document such as letters, journals, and diaries differ from a reporter or short story in the perspective they give on a community by the primary source living in the community and the reporter being an outsider.
Aidan,
ReplyDeleteYour response to "Here is New York" was a totally different reaction to mine of the story, which interested me. My reaction was that the author was proud of New York and loved the city, you believed he thought the exact opposite. I would like to know exactly why you think he hated New York because in my opinion, I think his story showed more love for New York overall than hate. Your comparison with Chicago was similiar to mine though. This shows how two peoples thoughts on the same thing can be so totally different.
Aidan- I got a different idea from the "Here is New York" intro about why he says what New York isn't, as a posed to what it is. I felt that he did that to show how great the city is, and how it's unlike any other city and to show it's uniqueness.
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