Social Sciences Essay: Cultural Diversity in the United States

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Cultural Diversity in the United States
Part A
1 Experience of Eastwood Residents
The experience of living in Eastwood is not a rosy one in the eyes of a normal human or an average American. To live in Eastwood, one has to adapt on how to leave with several problems from accessing education to, accessing a stable employment and a continuous fear of being evicted from your homes, especially when they are in dilapidated conditions. Accessing proper education as a child is difficult since one has to persevere and pray that the fate of luck be on their side since death is more of a normal thing in Eastwood. Considering that children have to pass through the deadliest neighbourhoods in Eastwood on their way to school makes it even harder for them to complete education. Getting a stable job is also an elusive dream for more than half of Eastwood residents. Finally, should the local authority declare an individual’s house unliveable, the individual is likely to be rendered homeless as the house is taken by the authority in the name of developing it. All these miseries leave most people in the hood with no option other than joining the gangs through which they see hope.
2 Analysis of the Experiences in Eastwood
One key point that comes out from individuals’ experiences in Eastwood is that most of the residents there do not choose to live that life. Also, a fraction of the residents is not proud with the violent and dilapidated state of their neighbourhood. Tamara Anderson, who wants to build a museum in the hood to keep peace and Justin, a transformed gang member who requested his boss not to avenge his injury are some of Eastwood residents who are not proud of the violence in their neighbourhood (Ralph, 22). Most of the people in the gangs, also seem to have joined the groups not because they admire the lifestyle but because their experience in life has leave them with no alternative option. The narrative of the Eastwood suggests that violence has become a norm in Chicago. On the contrary the narrative does not suggest that the people of Chicago are violence. Instead, the violence culture seems be invoked by the hardships they go through their lives.
3 Lessons from Renegade Dreams about Gangland Chicago
The biggest lesson that comes out of the Renegade Dream about Gangland Chicago is that the violent nature that is experienced in the neighbourhood is not an inbuilt natural culture of the people of Chicago. Instead, the different gangs in Chicago, which have existed for more than five decades appear to resolve to violence as a way of safeguarding their rights. This aspect is alluded to by the author of the book in a scenario where the Divine Knights and the Neighborhood Coalition team up outside Chicago City Hall on February 19, 2009 to oppose Delivery Development Corporation Idea of redeveloping the city. In their argument, Divine Knights and Neighborhood Coalition claim that they are okay with the redevelopment but are opposing the loss of property ownership that might result from the redevelopment. Such antagonisms are some of the factors that are likely to end up in violence.
Part B
1 Cohen’s Argument in Transforming the Cu...