DEBEMOS CREAR ZONAS RESIDENCIALES SOCIALMENTE MIXTAS O COMUNIDADES SEPARADAS ?
In order to
answer this question, we must first examine how people want to live, whether they
prefer to live in separate communities depending on their social and economic, religious
and political situation, or they want to live in mixed areas. Another question
we can ask ourselves is whether it is a good idea that people have the
possibility to choose this kind of segregation or not. The public
administration has to answer.
Admittedly,
people want to live with people with similar lifestyle. We can see this fact
from Catalonia to other places around the world. For example, rich people live
in certain towns, such as Matadepera, while that is mostly made up by wealthy
people, a town like Sant Adrià is mostly a working class town.
In my opinion
separate communities are not so good for a harmonious coexistence, because
these kinds of neighborhood are likely to turn into ghettos, sooner or later.
People from an area can live quite unaware of the existence of other communities.
Therefore, this ignorance of two economic realities can bring about social
conflicts as a consequence of big frustrations of poor inhabitants.
In conclusion
is we should create more socially mixed residential areas where rich people
live next to poorer people. I believe it had to have good consequences. One of
them, in the long term, would be that wealth would be distributed over that
area, then, poor people would be able benefit from it. Furthermore society
would be more equal economically. If rich and poor people are living
separately, then differences will be bigger and social disorders might arise like
the riots of London or the banlieues of Paris which banged five years ago.
