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Culture in America goes hand-in-hand with socioeconomic status. A substantial portion of desis and Nigerians in America are of the highest economic class back i
by pen2l 3y ago
Culture in America goes hand-in-hand with socioeconomic status. A substantial portion of desis and Nigerians in America are of the highest economic class back in their respective homes, and they're coming from that culture. If that culture erodes as it can over generations, their social/economic mobility patterns start following that of the rest of Americans'.
In America, today, in streets you can potentially see folks who lived in a time before the civil rights movement. It's an alarming contrast which is being overlooked: the immigrant Africans from moneyed and successful families and the other group couldn't drink from the same fountain as his fellow man, and not be able to send their kids to the good schools
- rayiner 3y ago> Culture in America goes hand-in-hand with socioeconomic status. A substantial portion of desis and Nigerians in America are of the highest economic class back in their respective homes, and they're coming from that culture. If that culture erodes as it can over generations, their social/economic mobility patterns start following that of the rest of Americans'. I think most Americans would fight you on even that second sentence. Because that implies culture matters. And that maybe it would help Appalachians get out of multi-generational poverty if they absorbed culture from Nigerian immigrants. That aside, culture in America often doesn’t track with socioeconomic status. Many Chinese Americans, for example, came to California as laborers and the overtook white Californians. Vietnamese Americans came here as refugees and did the same. Asians have the highest poverty rate in NYC, but also dominate the selective admissions schools.