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Living with Cross Culture Neighbors

Introduction

This paper intends to make a socio-cultural analysis on the short story “Bad neighbors” (Jones E.P. pp. 1). The story focuses on the families residing in the most educated area of Washington D.C. While reading the story, you will find that irrespective of being highly educated and socially sophisticated, people practiced cultural bias. The main point is that living with cross cultural neighbors, who come from a different culture, race, or religion, affects our life. As people from different countries or culture get to live with each other, they try to impose their own cultural rules on the others, without taking other's cultural perspectives into consideration. We discuss that how the writer has illustrated about the issues, the family had to face when they started to live at a place with entirely different culture, the place with a “good” neighborhood.

Notes on the Story

You must have gotten the idea while reading the story that; the author had successfully tried to highlight the behavior of one ethnic group when they had to live with the people of different culture. This paper will give you socio-cultural analysis of the story. This analysis refers to the identification of different groups in the society and analysis of relations between these groups. We begin with a brief overview of the story, to help you to view events in analytical context.

Benningtons, the black family, moved to the place with white neighborhood all around. All the neighbors though the family members were strange and different from them. Racism was the cause of this discrimination, as white people always consider themselves superior as compared to the black. There were 12 members in the family; the writer explains the appearance of few members in order to highlight ...