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Philadelphia isn't the best place to look at for that example. It was a city of neighborhoods, made up, primarily, of segregated ethnic groups. Heck, Chris Matthews came from an Irish neighborhood and still speaks with the Irish version of the Philadelphia accent. Yes, they self identify as Philadelphians to outsiders. To other locals they self identify as being from their neighborhood, which is like saying I'm Irish, Polish, Chinese, Italian, etc. In recent years, the ethnic neighborhoods are lessening, but they still exist.
Your point is well taken, but when I am thinking of cohesion, I was thinking of - and I know that my example is shallow, but it is what it is: in Philly, every ethnic group identifies with the cheesesteak, the large soft pretzel, etc.; in Boston, all ethnic groups identify with her New England clam chowder.
Charlotte once had long standing staples, but many of them are now gone.
Your point is well taken, but when I am thinking of cohesion, I was thinking of - and I know that my example is shallow, but it is what it is: in Philly, every ethnic group identifies with the cheesesteak, the large soft pretzel, etc.; in Boston, all ethnic groups identify with her New England clam chowder.
Charlotte once had long standing staples, but many of them are now gone.
Boston is to clam chowder as Charlotte is to Cheerwine, livermush, Lance Crackers, fish camps,
Carolina BBQ, and Bojangles. We are sort of the new kid on the block. and we are here to stay. I am glad to see that our Hollywood enhanced identity as tobacco chewing, spitting, cross burning, church burning, white trash, lazy, uneducated hillbillies is fading into obscurity. Unfortunately, that image was implanted in the minds of descendants of northern civil war veterans since the 1860s. It is sort of like the beginning of CRT.
...Charlotte is to Cheerwine, livermush, Lance Crackers, fish camps, Carolina BBQ, and Bojangles.
Great point, and that's how the City should market/brand herself. It's a mistake for the City to shy away, and dis-attach herself, from her past. Granted, there are nods that point to her history, e.g. the giant thimbles along the light rail, but those are token gestures.
The City has a history, and she should embrace it, for by embracing her heritage, she will promote a cohesion among her citizenry. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the contributions that Black Americans have made in and to CLT are often referenced, and this is good. But the City should not shuck her European past.
Nashville has a heritage of music, as does Memphis. Surely it's not a sin for Charlotte to clutch to Nascar and to Cheerwine.
A city should always be known for it's past, whether that is something to be celebrated and/or something that some want to exterminate or rid of us to be remembered no more.
Our identity is like DNA. By that I mean, that is the code or the program of what or who we are. Taking away the civil war, Jim Crow, civil rights, and any other chapter in history is like trying to decode something. If we are able to do that, something is lost for good. And it will always be a lose/lose in my opinion.
Sure, people with different skin tones, and languages, and religions, and cultures can and will bend it at it's axis, but Philly will always be known for Cheesesteaks, New York will be known as a place for immigrants and freedom, LA will be known for Hollywood, and Charlotte is a southern city that should always be known for Cheerwine, liver mush, Nascar, and banking.
Maybe I'm a little too young for this thread? However, in the world of hip hop and pop culture; Charlotte's name is being mentioned in places as far away as the UK due to an extremely popular Charlotte rapper known as "Dababy".
Great point, and that's how the City should market/brand herself. It's a mistake for the City to shy away, and dis-attach herself, from her past. Granted, there are nods that point to her history, e.g. the giant thimbles along the light rail, but those are token gestures.
The City has a history, and she should embrace it, for by embracing her heritage, she will promote a cohesion among her citizenry. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the contributions that Black Americans have made in and to CLT are often referenced, and this is good. But the City should not shuck her European past.
Nashville has a heritage of music, as does Memphis. Surely it's not a sin for Charlotte to clutch to Nascar and to Cheerwine.
Good posting . I wrote a response, but it wasn't politically correct so I bit the dust and erased it. It looks as if we will have to wait a couple of years to get our freedoms back. Until then, we will have to somehow have to survive the destruction of our white, European culture and know that only evil politics will prevail until America regains consciousness again. I guess our new image could be property destruction and drive-bys? It works for Chicago, L.A. and other cities.
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Great point, and that's how the City should market/brand herself. It's a mistake for the City to shy away, and dis-attach herself, from her past. Granted, there are nods that point to her history, e.g. the giant thimbles along the light rail, but those are token gestures.
The City has a history, and she should embrace it, for by embracing her heritage, she will promote a cohesion among her citizenry. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the contributions that Black Americans have made in and to CLT are often referenced, and this is good. But the City should not shuck her European past.
Nashville has a heritage of music, as does Memphis. Surely it's not a sin for Charlotte to clutch to Nascar and to Cheerwine.
Shelby has a liver mush festival. For that reason I don't see Charlotte having one. A lot of people in Charlotte look down on Gastonia, but that's not a mutual thing. However, there's a mutual distaste for each other when it comes to Shelby and Charlotte.
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