Examples of Inequality on City Road

Examples of inequality on City Road

This essay is too outline some examples of inequalities on City Road, the meaning of inequality is the unequal distribution of valued social resources within a society or between societies.

City Road consists of a multi-cultural society, but the way city road is structured does not reflect its society to its maximum as access to resources, are not available to everyone, particularly those who view city road as a rough or dangerous place to be at night. As a local man feel’s it to be unsafe to venture out after dark, the man says ‘It used to be a road you could walk up day or night and you wouldn't be afraid or nothing like you know, today, I wouldn't’ (The Open University (2016b). This opinion is shared by many other locals. However, the safety issues highlighted by the locals are not shared by local police officer Bob Keohone, who refers to city road as being safe.

Xquisite Africa is a shop owned by an African immigrant Janet Symmonds. Janet migrated to the U.K Years ago and after a period of time felt she was losing her identity she was quoted saying ‘originally I used to look at it that it's me who has come and therefore I got to do the changing to fit’ The Open University (2016b). Janet took a break back to her birth country to reflect. Returning to City Road Janet realised that elements of her African identity and culture we're being lost. She was feeling like she was not being true to herself. Janet realised the shops around didn't cater for her ethnic group, this encouraged her to come to the dissection to open her own business supplying African goods and products to City Road. This enabled herself and other people from the same ethnic group to purchase products familiar to them. Prior to Janet opening Xquisite Africa the African community in and around City Road may have felt excluded, they couldn't easily acquire items specific to their culture highlighting ethnic inequalities in the way a specific ethnic race...