Should we create more socially mixed residential areas, where rich people live next to poorer people, instead of in separate communities?
In order to
answer this question, we must first think where the prejudice with poorer
population is. Not all people admit to being prejudiced, but we involuntarily
demonstrate certain attitudes of this kind. Through this reflection we realize
that prejudice is in the mind of people who think they are superior to someone
just because they have more money than the other.
In my view, the
creation of more socially mixed residential areas, where rich people live next
to poorer people, instead of in separate communities would force the prejudiced
people to live with another social environment that is not their custom and
through this relationship and this conviviality, the idea of superiority would
be broken.
Admittedly,
there are examples of cases that this conviviality did not work. But the number
of cases that worked out is greater than those that went wrong and even if that
result is not achieved within those areas, outsiders have certainly been able
to exert such diversity and understand the cause.
Although these
areas are a solution to end the prejudice between rich and poor, it is not the
only one and we must always think of these other ways to end prejudice in our
society. I would like to argue in favor of the creation of socially mixed
residential areas, since they are of extreme social need, and through them we
can see a more egalitarian and less prejudiced future. And you, what do you
think about this socially mixed residential area?
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