On one hand the wealthy begin to look more and more alike as global On the other hand, every big city in the US is crowded with recent immigrants, Today’s Boston Globe has a good article on how the soaring rents "Apartment prices are so high, I can’t afford my own place yet," said Brown, 35, a single parent of seven children ages 2 to 18, is working "Family should stick together," she said. "It’s a little Peter Wood, an associate professor of anthropology at Boston University, from One of the inevitable results of globalization, porous borders and the revolution in transportation is, if not a homogeniazation then at least a frothy interweaving of cultures. On one hand the wealthy begin to look more and more alike as … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/multitude.jpg\")
\nOne of the inevitable results of globalization, porous borders and the revolution
\n in transportation is, if not a homogeniazation then at least a frothy interweaving
\n of cultures.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n chic spreads like a virus, and it is increasingly possible to wake
\n up in a four-star hotel, go down to the lobby, eat breakfast and read
\n the newspaper without getting a clue as to what continuent, let alone
\n what country one is in.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n the office buildings are cleaned by a nocturnal army of foreign-born neatniks,
\n the sidewalks are covered with incense sellers, expediters and shoe
\n repairmen, informal open-air markets are sprouting like mushrooms after
\n a summer
\n rain, and the urban soundtrack resembles a world music festival mingling
\n with heavy industrial construction. The social globalization extends
\n to living arrangements.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n plus the local housing shortage have numerous multiple extended families
\n all living in one or two bedroom apartments, a common practice in many
\n parts of the world, coming soon to a flat near you:<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Sonji Brown. "I’m on a three-year waiting list for public housing
\n because they say we’re not priority. But I’m trying to save as much as
\n I can
\n to get an apartment by the new year."<\/p>\n
\n as a dietitian at a nursing home. She’s sharing a home with Vera Brown-Morrison,
\n her husband, and their three children — 13 people packed into the
\n modest, white clapboard home with one bath on Lynn’s west side.<\/p>\n
\n overcrowded, especially because we only have one bathroom. The kids fight
\n because
\n there’s no privacy. But she’s my sister and I want to help."<\/p>\n
\n said the concept of multiple families under one roof is common worldwide
\n but frowned upon in America, where privacy and individuality are highly
\n valued.<\/p>\n
\n the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"