There is always trouble and everywhere in an urban city such as New York City. Like Wirth Merry believed that people that how Wirth talked about having the city in disorder where everyone is indulged to himself or herself. Merry believes that what Wirth wrote does not point to the entire urban city but just a part of it. Merry backs up her statement by a study she did in Dover Square, there she observe how the people in a diverse neighborhood gets along. Merry believed that the neighborhood was diverse enough that there is no trust between different ethnics group.
Merry saw how the criminal rates in Dover Square was so high and there was no one that is stopping it. Everyone that lived in the neighborhood was so cautious to his or her surroundings especially at night. For example, “a middle- aged black women sneaked surreptitiously from her home at 6:00 AM to do her laundry before the neighborhood youths gathered in the Laundromat” (Merry 123). In a neighborhood full of violence and crime the people living there have to be in high alert. That’s why there is no trust among different ethnic backgrounds.
All the crimes that happen, there are no way of saying how the crimes started and which race holds the highest rate in the crimes around Dover Square. Due to the crimes there is no trust among the diverse neighborhood. No one dare trust people that are not their own kind. Making Wirth’s statement true of how the people don’t go outside their comfort zone and associate with other ethnicity.
I believe that being cautious does not mean that there should be no trust among the neighborhood. I am not saying that the people being scared for their life is wrong but in a way that there is segregation is ridiculous. It shows how split one neighborhood is and that’s can make a situation even worse. I believe that living in a neighborhood full of different people is a good thing, there are things that different people can enlighten and help out.
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