New York. World's city
Description
To describe New York City's cultural makeup, the best metaphor is a salad bowl rather than a melting pot. This program follows the Queens #7 subway line through a dazzling array of ethnic communities, each with its own distinct texture and flavor, illustrating demographic changes the city has undergone since the early 1990s. Less inclined to learn English and join mainstream society than previous immigrant generations, recently arrived New Yorkers are nevertheless part of a long-established pattern - which former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) praises, while New York Senator Frank Padavan discusses fears that some conservative citizens harbor.
Runtime
26 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Human geography (324)
- Cultural geography (235)
- Social change (532)
- Rural-urban migration (144)
- Urban geography (61)
- Social ecology (250)
- Urbanization (175)
- Population policy (78)
- Economics (3707)
- Human ecology (350)
- Political anthropology (62)
- International economic relations (341)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2004
Database
Films on Demand
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