In Berger’s The World in a City, I really liked his use of the phrase “different-colored ethnic tiles” (19). I find the mosaic theory, which is what Berger is talking about here, to be an interesting one. It definitely has merit to it, as you see from maps like the ones that Joe Salvo showed us where you can see just who is living where, next to whom. People identify differently based on their ethnicity, their background, their ancestry, but in New York City, everyone lives among each other. Yes there are neighborhoods like Chinatown and Little Italy, but those neighborhoods cross over each other, especially over time, and they do still interact because they are just smaller portions of the bigger City. Berger also talks about the melting pot theory, and relates some people’s opinions that the city isn’t a melting pot, but rather we all just inhabit the same land and don’t interact with those outside of our preconceived social circles. I don’t agree with that, but perhaps that’s simply because of my going to school and having to interact with everyone in my classes. Yes it’s true that we relate better to those who are more similar to us, but I don’t think that means that we isolate ourselves completely from those who are more dissimilar to us.