Cultural Niches

MAP OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS IN CHICAGO

This is a map of the different ethnic groups and where they live in the city of Chicago. This map shows how many incredibly diverse even just one city is in the United States. However, these groups have seemed to all have stuck together. Different ethnic groups like to remain together, but in urban settings especially. Chicago is a great example of the cultural pocket set-up. The groups like to stay together, because they feel much more comfortable and are easily able to identify with their particular ethnicity. America is diverse but it seems that cultures still like to stay together.

DIFFERENT GROUPS WHO HAVE IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES

The same pattern follows for the entire country. It's very interesting to examine where each cultural group has settled. This is a very recent map. Check out the website, because the map is very interactive. Why do these Ethnicities decide to settle in the same areas? Does it have to do with cultural acceptance? When one lives with people of the same decent, there is an absence of racial discrimination and there are many commonalities. People don't want to have to give up their roots and this is how that solution has been solved. There is a false notion that U.S. is completely intermixed.