NYC Ethnography
New York City encompasses urban ethnographies that represent cultures around the divergent globe.
In these cultures, one can see the dynamic traditions of China on one street, and the traditions of Africa on the next.
The city is truly an amazing place to become a global citizen of the world.
As a student that gets to live and learn each day in this environment, I am blessed.
After only a few months, my perspective has changed for the better.
Viewing new religions and philosophies, it is easier to understand the global events happening around me.
Although only a transient figure in the city scheme, I intend to leave my mark and take ones left behind.
In order to experience the world, one does not need to travel the country, the globe, or even the universe, but rather just step back and walk around a couple blocks of the "Big Apple."
With numerous restaurants and shops that represent just about every ethnography on the globe, learn by being.
“The city is, rather, a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition (Robert E. Park, The City).”
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and
In these cultures, one can see the dynamic traditions of China on one street, and the traditions of Africa on the next.
The city is truly an amazing place to become a global citizen of the world.
As a student that gets to live and learn each day in this environment, I am blessed.
After only a few months, my perspective has changed for the better.
Viewing new religions and philosophies, it is easier to understand the global events happening around me.
Although only a transient figure in the city scheme, I intend to leave my mark and take ones left behind.
In order to experience the world, one does not need to travel the country, the globe, or even the universe, but rather just step back and walk around a couple blocks of the "Big Apple."
With numerous restaurants and shops that represent just about every ethnography on the globe, learn by being.
“The city is, rather, a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition (Robert E. Park, The City).”
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and