CHAPTER+14+-+Places+and+Spaces

Drew's Part ====My dad used to have this saying, " You may have grown up in eastern North Carolina, but at least act like you have been somewhere before". I never really got what it meant until I read this chapter. In the chapter it talks about how people may be from a southern yuppie town, but after working they got out of that social view and are putting forth a better lifestyle. It basically is talking about determination, and how it can lead you to the success that you want. In particular the first part of the chapter talks about a kid from Ohio and after school he becomes a Wall Street executive and starts living the "New York Lifestyle". It all comes down to make the change that fits your needs.==== Changes like that do not always make the easiest transitions, there are always those people that do not except that someone has moved from their element to make a difference in themselves. In the book the author talks about a woman from the foot hills of Tennessee who ended up moving to New York City to work at a law firm. However; people would still view her as a southern woman and still picture she has that same lifestyle. Even though she got her degree from Yale law school and got it with flying colors, that title still does not help the view on her.

There is always the factors in life that hold you back do to your history, religion, race, gender, and all the other factors that separate one person from another. Not everyone has the same non judgmental mind as people that are in my class, but that is the way life is. If only everybody could take an Ethnocultural class. After I finally put what my dad said, and put it in reference with the book. I understand that you may be from the polar opposite of were you want to be, but with determination and hard work you can get to that lifestyle.

//Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.// //Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.// -Baz Luhrmann