Louis Wirth has been investing the urban way of life. He is talking about life in a neighborhood of strangers. He insists that way of life is characterized by relationship with two strangers. He makes interesting observations.
Wirth argues that social boundaries makes room for crimes. Awareness of danger comes from belief that they live in a world of dangerous strangers. Some people in urban areas live in fear and expect the worst. A city is a place for strangers. Fear of danger causes some people from close ties to social groups such as families,.
Wirth has been studying life in high crime neighborhoods. He found out that in a housing project which he was investing the impact of ethnic groups like black, hispanicsand chinese he found out that in this project of his he discovered that each ethnic group had different perception on living conditions of housing projects.
I find it interesting reading about urban danger. I 've learned about different ethnic groups from housing projects. I found out two incidents from reading this to be interesting. A white man packs his suitcase without anyone noticing as he went into the dark. One more incident is when a chinese woman never return to her home after dark.
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