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physical obstacles are the reason to being separated between people yet, Rebecca Solin might
disagree because she expresses that you can be exiled mentally.
In Who Am I Where? by Rebecca Solnit she also feels that barrier but it more of a mental
thing for her. She feels like this specifically when she says I can see that. For me, in the sunset, I
am almost irish enough but not San Franciscan enough. She feels that she doesn't really fit in
because she doesn't make the cut in the view of others eyes. Brooks feels that even if your
economic status is enough to live in an area you may be blocked out by peoples beliefs of who
can live there. He gives a perfect example of this when In Manhattan the owner of a $3 million
SoHo loft would feel out of place moving into a $3 million Fifth Avenue apartment. You can see
even though both areas cost the same you only live where you feel you belong and can live
comfortably. Rebecca Solin and David Brooks have the same opinion on about borders and
borderlands because they both show how people change in different areas.
In People Like Us by David Brooks he shows how some people choose to create borders.
A perfect example of how people divide themselves is when he says If you asked a Democratic
lawyer to move from her $750,000 house in Bethesda, Maryland, to a $750,000 house in Great
Falls, Virginia, she'd look at you as if you had just asked her to buy a pickup truck with a gun
rack and to shove chewing tobacco in her kid's mouth. This is a great exreample of how people
will divide of into communities where they have common status quo.
Border and borderlands separate us either in a physical way like the Mexican and United
States border or more like a mental way as in the same people live in the same neighborhood.
Although we see more diversity now in day there is still a lot of separation between humanity
because of all the barriers that we have created such as economy and even comfortability. One
concern about this could be us living like people did in the United States during the segregation
era just more incognito.