Essay About Segregation In America

America is known as a heterogeneous society but still there are still forms of segregation in the country. According to Merriam-Webster, “the practice or policy of keeping people of different races, religions, etc., separates from each other.” There is still a bit of concern when it comes to segregation in America. The concern we see currently is "choice-segregation”. This is not a racial problem as it was in the past but an economic problem. The divide between the rich and the poor is growing and it is reflective in our school systems. Private schools around America are slowly becoming segregated. The families with the financial resources are able to put their children through private school. Private schools are well funded with better resources provided for the children. For example President Obama states, “And what’s happened in our economy is that those who are doing better and better — more skilled, more educated, luckier, having greater …show more content…
A couple weeks ago the stock market was stationary, and it hit the average family hard. This had a drastic effect on the living conditions of many families across the United States. Economic segregation puts groups of individuals in three separate groups the lower, middle, and higher classes. These social groups live apart from each other, and creates a greater divided with in America. Economic segregation is not as noticeable as racial segregation is in America but it is still present. For example, in the city of Coral spring it has a street named Riverside Drive. The north region of Riverside Drive has a social space of Haitian American. The further south of Riverside Drive is more diverse with a variety of ethnicities living within one community. Scholars describe social space as, “ the ways in which the spatial patterns and areas of cities are shaped, and influenced, by their residents” (Chen, Orum, and Paulsen