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When places are full of white people, minorities are brought in in the name of diversity and it's to be celebrated. When places are full of minorities and white
by throwaway000345 6y ago
When places are full of white people, minorities are brought in in the name of diversity and it's to be celebrated. When places are full of minorities and whites move in, it's gentrification and we need to write articles lamenting it.
Cultural mixing happens both ways. Sometimes inclusion means changing long standing traditions.
- quantified 6y agoHave there been any natural experiments where less-wealthy white folk were priced out by more-wealthy non-white? I think the driver of gentrification is economic class not race/ethnicity. Wealthier and whiter show up together but may not be the same thing.
- richiezc 6y agovancouver?
- fuzxi 6y agoQuite a bit of Canada, I'd wager.
- isabelc 6y agoMiami, Florida
- masonic 6y agoHave there been any natural experiments where less-wealthy white folk were priced out by more-wealthy non-white? Cupertino and Saratoga CA are exactly such experiments.
- quantified 6y agoIs the word “gentrification” used in describing the shift?
- masonic 6y agoNo, because gentrification involves conversion/upgrade of the properties. The properties themselves are largely unchanged; only the owner demographics have changed.
- reducesuffering 6y agoBasically most of the Bay Area
- quantified 6y agoGo on? There are areas where more-wealthy South Asians are prominent, I don’t know if they took over from whites or Latinos though (Cupertino, etc.). White and Asian techies and financiers have displaced white and Latino non-techies, overall. I’m sure there are towns and neighborhoods I’m missing the picture on.
- reducesuffering 6y agoGentrification is a process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses.[0] Cities like Fremont, Union City, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino were pretty much 80% white 50 years ago. They're now about 24-34%. With housing prices at $1-3M here, do you think that most of those white people went on to afford even more expensive homes elsewhere? Mostly not, they're priced out of their hometowns. You can see this in California migration patterns, where many more Americans emigrate California cheaper states than immigrate (you could consider some of them "gentrified") while CA adds population from immigrants internationally, and thus the population is steady. Of course, it's "techies", really affluence, displacing non-techies, rather than any racial motivation. Upon checking, it doesn't look like overall Hispanic populations are being displaced out of the Bay Area. It looks like some areas like SF and Fremont have slightly lower Hispanic populations from 2000-2018, whereas cities Hayward and San Jose increased by a further amount. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
- Dirlewanger 6y agoClass is the driver, but it's a very easy topic to dress up as racially motivated and yet again split everything across racial lines instead of against the wealthy NIMBY liberals that enable this shit to happen.
- selimthegrim 6y agoParts of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
- quantified 6y agoThose are classic cities where the word “gentrification” might get used. Now for the interesting part- has that word been used as part of describing the changes?
- ReadFList 6y ago“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.” -Carl Schmitt Just guess who is the be seen as the enermy, guilty of some original sin that must be attoned at all times.