For many families, the front porch is really just the threshhold to their front door, or maybe simply the curb on the street. Children play, mothers and grandmothers visit, hang out, and spend their time in the doorways. As seen here another tradition is that multiple generations all live together, it is typically three, occasionally four generations, in a house or apartment. I have noticed that it seems here in the US that people are much closer in the more traditional ethnic neighborhoods. In progressive generations as they move to more diversified and upscale areas be it in the burbs or in the cities, the closeness and the family ties lessen. I am not at all sure that that is a good thing. Maybe it takes some hardship to bring people closer together.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Front Porch
For many families, the front porch is really just the threshhold to their front door, or maybe simply the curb on the street. Children play, mothers and grandmothers visit, hang out, and spend their time in the doorways. As seen here another tradition is that multiple generations all live together, it is typically three, occasionally four generations, in a house or apartment. I have noticed that it seems here in the US that people are much closer in the more traditional ethnic neighborhoods. In progressive generations as they move to more diversified and upscale areas be it in the burbs or in the cities, the closeness and the family ties lessen. I am not at all sure that that is a good thing. Maybe it takes some hardship to bring people closer together.
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