Urbanism is a way of life?

When Wirth wrote his essay about urbanism and how the city is brought up to shape ones attitude and personality. He emphasized that there are many people lives based on where they live. In the city where it’s busy and a high populated, citizens live their life according to how everyone else in society lives. In a city like New Your City, everyone live their everyday lives in a fast pace. There is little time to actually stop and associate with other people from another part of the city. Hence people only associate with the people that are close to them, people don’t go out of their horizons. Instead everyone in the city only sees everyone else as strangers and their normal response is to ignore them. People have been affected when they move to the city, their attitudes and personality is shaped by the city. Many people would not get themselves involved unless there is a circumstance which he or she is involved.

Wirth believed that there is no need to associate with people unless you want something from the other person. When there is a high populated city there is a limit to the closeness a person would have. In his writing, Wirth wrote that,

Place of residence, place and character of employment, income, and interests fluctuate, and the task of holding organizations together and maintaining and promoting intimate and lasting acquaintanceship between the members is difficult (Wirth 111)

As Wirth said if we bring different people together and ask for them to be friends is a difficult task. People from different status would not talk to people that is different from them, their normal response is to ignore and move on.

            There are parts of the urban society that can create something that can bring the different people all over the urban city together. There is something that can stop the people in their busy life and take the time to participate activities that can be offered from their neighborhood. Wirth said that, “in the view of the ineffectiveness of actual kinship ties we create fictional kinship groups” (Wirth 116). In a way there are some short of way which people can communicate outside their comfort zone. There are activities that bring different kind of people together allowing people to get to another person.

            I believe we live in a society that does not allow us to associate other people we call strangers. When we see a stranger we would either look the other way or blast our music, as a citizen it’s our job to only care about ourselves. We don’t have the time to stop and get to know a person, we are living in a fast, enabling to stop society that there is no point to get to know a stranger. We would usually ignore the people that is not of concern to us, and why would there be we were brought up learning how to associate with people in our comfort zone and ignore everyone else.