A Bronx Tale

Today we finished the movie A Bronx Tale, going into this movie I think the entire class knew that there would be some sort of turbulence for the word Bronx tends to frighten people. They in a sense fear the Bronx for it is classified as a ghetto where trouble arises and danger is a normal. Yet we really dont take into consideration our personal experiences with ghettos to judge places like the Bronx, for most of us dont have a personal realation with areas such as that. We tend to use our second hand knowledge based off of what we know about the South Side of Chicago and try to compare all ghettos across the country to this one particular area that is familiar to us. Yet lets be honest, no two places are the same, so I think its safe to say we overgeneralize a bit when it comes to unfamilair areas that have been labled "dangerous."

I personally grew up on the east cost, atlhough I am a Bostonian, I was born in New York. My mother has lived in New York for her entire childhood up until she had me. One of the areas that she lived in was the Bronx. I asked her questions about it such as: Was there an extreame amount of violence? Were the crime rates out of control? Were you constantly in fear? But the answer to all these questions was the same: "Its just like any place you would live in." And she was right, when I go back to New York I sometimes see the Bronx, and it is overstated when it comes to its notorious reputation. Whats even more suprising is that some very respectable people live there as well. So generally people tend to generalize about this dangerous area without even knowing what the place is really like.  Instead we rely on movies such as this one to inform us and give us our opinions on something we lack personal interaction with.