[Kevin C]

It’s not that the new neighbors are trying to ‘bring down’ their new neighborhood. They bring with them the lifestyle they have lived prior to becoming your neighbor. If you have a French flavor and enjoy a glass of wine with your meals and allow your children to do the same you will continue this practice even when you move to a neighborhood where the parents wouldn’t think of serving their children wine with dinner. When a car for example is bought used and not in so good of a condition to begin with you aren’t going to just junk it if it is your only means of trnasportation. You bring the car with you hoping to get enough ‘extra’ money to get it fixed and in better running condition. To your new neighbors this is a slight on the block but to you it’s your mode of transportation. There is nature and there is nurture. Instead of seeing your new neighbors as ‘ghetto’ which is a nurture condition; learned not inbred, know that the ghetto is on the outside not the inside. Help them become familiar with the customs and ways of their new surroundings. Go out and show them the proper way to ‘garden’ and care for a lawn where in their old neighborhood they may have only seen broken glass not grass. Many ‘ghetto’ families don’t have the home improvement know-how. Union carpenters and laborers of ‘non-ghetto’ families have been trained and are skilled in these areas. The ghetto family was denied access to unions and specialized training for reasons we already know the details of and therefore don’t arrive with a ‘handyman’ in the family. There could be some wilderness buff out there who would look down on YOU for not knowing how to build a log cabin with your bare hands. That would be unfair to condemn you for what you don’t know or arent’ familiar with. Be a good neighbor and help erase the traces of ‘ghetto’ that linger for some of these families.Show them the ropes and act like they are part of the community and not strangers. That will help the situation more than you think. As far as challenging authority don’t you think this is part of every youth’s experience of growing up. You see it as unique to the ghetto neighbors but it is not. It’s unique to youth. They aren’t aliens- they’re humans and human behavior in general leaves a lot to be desired these days. Cellphone usage, profanity, road rage, these aren’t ghettoisms they’re humanisms. Try a little more patience, extend a helping hand and see if in time the situation doesn’t improve.

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Name : Kevin C, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 47, City : Indianapolis, State : IN, Country : United States, Occupation : Mail Services Clerk, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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