Week 5 Post

Hi Gurdeep,

I think your post is very interesting because you go over a lot of valid points. I've always thought of Lynwood as a large Hispanic community, but not as large as you pointed it out to be. Your post covered various interesting topics, such as income, education, and even the historical racial background of the area. All of these topics are very controversial to society, therefore, going over them plays a key role in our course, since it's titled “Cities and Social Difference.”

I think referring to the term 'underclass' fits perfectly for the city of Lynwood. In view of the fact that I come from Pomona, a city similar to Lynwood, things you covered made perfect sense to me, especially the things you spoke that often go unseen.  Viewing that “...Lynwood as an underserved community.  We can see this in the fact that 49.49% of its population does not have a high school diploma.  After looking at the facts, I cannot subscribe to the conservative perspective on the underclass.  Lynwood, CA has a racist history that plays a very important role in its current state.  Other underprivileged cities and areas may not provide such a clear-cut example, but there are problems in our social and governmental structures that lead to an underserved underclass.” This text gives us more insight of how to better envision the disadvantages of the city of Lynwood. Seeing that only half their population has a high school diploma, demonstrates that individuals of the area do not have the education or aid to change the ways of living.

I also agree a lot with Jordon's comment, and also further think that you should have focused on language. Jordan's comment, “Another interesting point is how we identify and consider Lynwood to be an area of concentrated poverty as from the imagery you have used, I wouldn't really consider this area to be particularly disadvantaged than others. However, from looking at Census data, this does seem to be more obvious: Language other than English spoken at home: - Lynwood = 80.2% vs. California average = 43.0%,” I think this would be a great addition to your blog and could strongly be included with a research idea of this topic.

All in all, I think you did a great job and recommend more posts like this. I will even attempt to adapt this type of blog posting.

GREAT JOB!!!

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