UL P.202-216

Respect is a profoundly significant in every person life. One of my person in the interview spoke out about respect and how he leaved his office job and went back to dealing because he didn't get any respect in the job. One thing I want to speak out on is that a drug dealer or a gangster are respected because of  their occupation but out of fear. Maybe some of them are respected because they made it big and hasn't been caught. That type of person even I would respect because it isn't easy to made it big and not be caught. To build a organized crime need a lots of wits. 

Society might not want drug or crime but from my understanding society needs it. It's to is a paradox that need to be in balance. The world need evil for there to be good; one serves each others. Just imagine how many law officials we have that has a job because there is a drug lord somewhere. It sound wrong but ask a cop if he want violence in the street and I bet you he would say we need some or else I will be out of the job.

UL P.185-201

Poor people living in perpetual poverty has always been dehumanizes by society. This Chapter and Goode works are very interesting.  I, myself lived a very affluent life till my move to USA. After coming here I have understood poverty first hand. The shift of this classes at the time of my socio-psycho development has gave me a great insight to this notion. 

I do agree with Goode in her attempt to explain this dynamics. People people do work really hard to make ends meet. Furthermore, there are under appreciated by society. However, some do take advantage of their status. For example, many immigrant I know have more kids to get more benefits from government.  Lots of government facilities are being abuse for self gained. Call it divine justice or pure stupidity. I guess it is a way for under privileged people to get back the privileged folks. Most of them  don't look at the long term affect of their action or logically construct a lifelong plan to exceed. I think government need to rethink it handouts and better construct program for everyone genuine needs.  There should be a family planning. Furthermore, government need to more virtuous themselves.  If we all can be virtuous and genuine  than hopefully the world wouldn't have any form of sufferings.

UL P.119-130

Sally Merry conduct an in-depth ethnographic research in the residents of the Dover Square project. She lived next to the project for over a year to conduct her research. She wanted to find out "how people who live in high crime urban areas think about danger, how they deal with it on a daily basis, and how anonymity fosters crime."

I have lived in the city my whole life. Hence, as you grow up you know where to go and where to stay out of or not to go at certain time.  In the city, you will always have to have your guard up. I am not sure if it holds true to rural villages areas.

As Merry mention in her research, people in the city know who is doing what, for example who is hustling and might be trouble and who is not. Parents and young adults know this and are advise by the respected adults to not go there or hangouts  with those people. Although, teens are attracted to trouble and get involved regardless of the warning. Those who are  wise gets out of it before it too late or never join to begin. Cities will always hold dangers as it is true in our everyday mundane of daily life regardless of where we live.  I just think cities are just well known for danger. 

UL P.101-118

Urban areas are thought to be places of mass production, modern power-driven machine technology, industrialism and modern capitalism center. Therefore, our lifestyle is a detonation derived from such influence. I think to some sense it is true. However, nowadays lots of rural areas around are being develop with great access to the urban areas. Rural land such as Long Island where lots of city workers seek to dwell and get out of city loud and congestion. Around the world, rural areas are being develop with flyover and better connection for people to go back and forth and enjoy best of both worlds.

Industry moving there manufacture farm out of the city to a rural area because of city is limited in its spaces. Furthermore, the land and cost of operation is cheaper outside of the city.   

UL P.82-96

City and suburb are places people live in a distonctive manner from each others. The experience of upbringing is different as well. Which, furthermore, might have a different in you outlook in life. 

For the past 30 years, George Gmelch and Sharon Gmelch has been taking undergraduate to experience anthropological fieldwork first hand. Students  were doing fieldwork in both rural and urban area. In urban area, it is harder to identify a community and a local informant and most data gathering are results of interviews. On the other hand, rural area is easily identify community and effective participant-observation method easily apply. For example, Barbados a village where the students did their fieldwork. This village range in size from 200 to 800  people only. Each member of the  community knows  the rest of the community members; a shocking and fascinating fact to the student.

 One interesting fact I learned is that half of the world's population lives in the urban areas and according to United Nation projections about 70 percent will be living in the city by 2050.

UL P.269-279 (WItsoe)

India is a land of many subcultural and many languages. I believe it is one of the most diverse nations in the world. Within this diversity there are practices that come out of religion. Indian cast system which is directly come from Hinduism. In which, Brahmins is the highest of the caste and the untouchable is the lowest.  There are strong prejudice in between the different castes and also strong alliances between the same caste members. The untouchable are treated really badly. They are not allowed to enter anyone house or eat with them. There are left alone in the outskirt of the city. No one from the other caste is even allowed to touch them. Questions come to mind when I hear you can’t touch them. What if a untouchable person get sick on into an accident, Shouldn’t we as a human being help out a person in need regardless of race, sex, or in this case caste?  

In Patna, India a ground of mafia ring is terrorizing the local business and wealthy people. This mafia ground are asking for extortion money and also giving protection for hire. Furthermore, businesses hire them to destroy their competition. These criminals are well connected with government officials such as senate and other high positioned government official.