People Like Us David Brooks Summary

People Like Us When first reading the piece by David Brooks I was shocked about the bold statement that he made. Growing up I always believed I surrounded myself with others that were not all the same as me, however the more I look into my actually life and each piece there is a fair amount of truth behind his “admission”. I can look at different aspects of my everyday life, and see how I actually am not surrounded by a diverse group of people. I live in a mainly white Republican neighborhood, upper-middle class, and white collar. Now I didn’t choose to live where I do, however I can see that by the people I am around on a daily basis are pretty much exactly the same as me. The “admission” Brooks made is very clear and true, we just rather not believe it. My reaction changed dramatically with the vast amount of
My best friends here are the same major, same taste in music, same social life activities, and agree with the same things as me. It is just a subconscious way of life that is so hard to break. Brooks did a fantastic job of supporting he’s assertion be the later part of his piece. There were a lot of sound examples and statistical data that was presented in the piece, which is hard to disagree with when there are numbers behind it. However, the piece did same a little bias, and that Brooks never pointed out larger cities such as Baltimore, New York, or San Francisco. “A study from WalletHub compared more than 300 of the nation's most populated cities, looking at the household diversity, social class diversity, ethno-racial diversity, and economic diversity of each to determine the overall most diverse city in the U.S.” Not all cities in America are completely divided by economic statues, social class, and race. Although a large number of places in the United States can tend to be separated by people of the same