Dealing with personality differences in cities vs towns

This response submitted by Sarah Westheimer and Erica Bland (westhesb@muohio.edu) at 7:36 pm on 2/19/01. Additions were last made on Sunday, June 16, 2002. Section: Myers.

Something I've noticed about people who have spent a lot of time in a city rather than a small town is the ability to 1. survive well without labels and 2. deal with differences that don't have labels. If I can relate this to an oversimplification of early high school feelings for most kids, you can look at the little subcultures and cliques that emerge in suburban high schools versus urban high schools... In a suburban high school I would imagine that you would see kids saying, "He's a jock", or "she's punk rawk", or "she's a band geek", whereas in an urban high school you may possibly find a whole plethora of interests that don't necessarily have to be categorized in order to be accepted. This is an epiphany I had due to a recent trip to TriCounty mall :o).
For the idea, it sounds very good, but I would watch rhetoric, as it seems to seep into this topic very easily, and the results of the proposed research seem open to interpretation.


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