The Health Effect of Segregation Have you ever thought why the word equality exists, if humans have never experienced equality? Equality could be considered a myth because people have an understanding of what it should look like but have never come across it. It's like how Some people think that minorities have an equal opportunity to succeed as a White Americans. Well, not exactly, know in days in Berkeley, California it is seen that majority white Americans live in the hills and the majority of the minorities, live in the west and South Berkeley. Segregation is still alive beneath the people. Segregation is an issue causing inequality of resources that causes the more probability for minorities to get
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Some assets of the neighborhood where the community garden, and the reconstruction of roads these are considered assets because they are good for the appearance of the neighborhood. The barriers where the amount of abandon houses, the traffic, and the construction sites these are barriers because they pollute the neighborhood, make it noisier and dangerous. I noticed that there is more White American living there. That could be the reason why it's starting to improve. An example of why this may be true is because when I was trying to ask questions about the problems they noticed about their neighborhood, no minority wanted to talk to me it because they were too busy, but the white Americans didn't have a problem with speaking to me about the flaws of the neighborhood. This has to do with the point that White Americans are more confident that the City of Berkeley will listen to their requests. In the other hand, minorities are used to being rejected and ignored by the City of Berkeley. For instance when the City of Berkeley got rid of the Codornices Village shelter to many minorities, even though they knew people were living there(Wollenberg, 2008). That's why African Americans just don't take the time to think about the worst thing about their neighborhood because they know they are wasting time discussing the flaws when they know
Some assets of the neighborhood where the community garden, and the reconstruction of roads these are considered assets because they are good for the appearance of the neighborhood. The barriers where the amount of abandon houses, the traffic, and the construction sites these are barriers because they pollute the neighborhood, make it noisier and dangerous. I noticed that there is more White American living there. That could be the reason why it's starting to improve. An example of why this may be true is because when I was trying to ask questions about the problems they noticed about their neighborhood, no minority wanted to talk to me it because they were too busy, but the white Americans didn't have a problem with speaking to me about the flaws of the neighborhood. This has to do with the point that White Americans are more confident that the City of Berkeley will listen to their requests. In the other hand, minorities are used to being rejected and ignored by the City of Berkeley. For instance when the City of Berkeley got rid of the Codornices Village shelter to many minorities, even though they knew people were living there(Wollenberg, 2008). That's why African Americans just don't take the time to think about the worst thing about their neighborhood because they know they are wasting time discussing the flaws when they know