The Pros And Cons Of Living In Santa Cruz

mobile research awakened my eyes to the idea of remember community members through objects and items. As I walk and see people interacting, I noticed that many of the residents are common people, just like myself. This means that they are hard workers who are caught up in trying to make a living to pay bills and enjoying life to the fullest. I was able to denote this since many of the people I walked past were people of color and students since they were talking about classes. In addition, this revealed that the community is immensely diverse with different cultures, perspectives of life, experiences, and knowledge. Therefore, I learned that even though Santa Cruz is predominately white Americans, people of color are learning how to cope and live in Santa Cruz, just like myself. …show more content…
Throughout my walk I realized that there were many signs that prevent people from fully being involved in the community such as parking limits, requirements for pets to be outside, and public access to parks. Signs that limit parking to the public minimizes the community interaction since people are only allowed to park their vehicle for certain period of time. This prevents people from connecting physically with each other for a long period of a time since there are chances of them being ticketed for parking too long. Parks and pets’ regulation signs limit the community opportunities to fully enjoy the community goods. People are restricted to enjoy public goods in specific time block when law enforcements are able to watch over the community efficiently. Therefore, the community is controlled by political power. While working on this assignment, I ran into much difficulties. First off, I was not allowed to interact with anybody during my ethnography. This was a challenge since I