Harlem, south side of Chicago, Atlanta, ect.. all these places have one main thing in common. They're all categorized as being "ghetto areas" with a ton of gang violence. But they're all different in their own special ways. All catering to different groups of people and their individual types of lifestyles. In the book Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh did what most would not dare to do. He took on the challenge of exploring "Gangs" hands on rather then just surveying numerous amounts of poor African Americans. By finding a young guy by the name of J.T, who was a gang leader himself, he witnessed everything in a whole different perspective. He truly found out how the whole "gangstuh/ghetto" life style operated, the kind of life they lived, and how they survived.
Most people don't take the time to really get to know one another, yet, they just judge "a book by its cover" or in this case by answering a few measly questions that didn't really answer all the facts that the projects had to offer. If more people were like Sudhir, in a way that they would just look beyond the horizon and go full on with whatever they were trying to figure out, then, in my opinion, society would be more accepting and the world would become a much better place.
I agree. If people were more open to accepting a different world than there own or accepting different people other than the ones they are used to then world would become a much better place with less stereotypes as well.
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