Amusing the Million In the late 1800s, society had become increasingly diverse and didn’t have socialization happening within different classes and cultures. It brought together the "high" and "lower" classes. Many different cultures had emerged as one with the help of all these different amusements parks at Coney Island. Each amusement park Coney Island provided had many different cultural entertainments to offer. All classes rich and poor, as well as immigrants were able to attend, due to the low cost of transportation. Lower classes were basically ruled by the Victorian genteel culture. Victorians were known as the rich, stuck up culture, that claimed they were better than the others. When reading "Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century", By John F, Kasson. It helps give a better understanding of what Kasson's argument was at the time.
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How it went from a very strict culture to a freer society and how they manage to let go of their proper ways, including how much power their class had over the others. Victorians didn’t care if they violated their social norms. They would come and attend these amusements parks to forget about their cities and forget how proper they were expected to act being a Victorian genteel culture.
Kasson mentions, "In the Nineteenth-century America was governed by a strikingly coherent set of values, a culture in many respects more thoroughly "Victorian" than the England over which Victoria reigned" (Kasson, 4). He provides us with this quote to show how the Victorian culture was held so high class, and how proper they had to hold themselves due to their social norms. "Kasson also shows us, "The most striking expression of the changing character of America culture, however lies in the new amusement parks that were developed at the turn of the century" (Kasson,
How it went from a very strict culture to a freer society and how they manage to let go of their proper ways, including how much power their class had over the others. Victorians didn’t care if they violated their social norms. They would come and attend these amusements parks to forget about their cities and forget how proper they were expected to act being a Victorian genteel culture.
Kasson mentions, "In the Nineteenth-century America was governed by a strikingly coherent set of values, a culture in many respects more thoroughly "Victorian" than the England over which Victoria reigned" (Kasson, 4). He provides us with this quote to show how the Victorian culture was held so high class, and how proper they had to hold themselves due to their social norms. "Kasson also shows us, "The most striking expression of the changing character of America culture, however lies in the new amusement parks that were developed at the turn of the century" (Kasson,