Berger talks a lot about Ditmas Park and the residents who live in it. It seems like he’s glorifying Ditmas Park and how it truly is a “melting pot” of so many different ethnicities. In the reading, Beckman says that even though she grew up on the Village’s Bank Street in the 1960s, and lived among the brownstones of Carroll Gardens she still found the neighborhood becoming “too white” and moved to Ditmas Park as a result. This reminded me of the time when I went on vacation to China. I had never realized the impact of the diversity in New York until I went on that vacation. Like Beckman, I found China to be “too Asian” and I found myself getting excited every time I saw someone of a different ethnicity, whether they were living there or were tourists.

The last statement at the end, where Beckman says “What’s scary is that it could change,” when talking about the multicultural aspect of Ditmas Park. I feel as though something like that isn’t necessarily scary. Sure, it could be taking one step away from where we are trying to go towards: a true melting pot of people, with multicultural neighborhoods everywhere. But nothing is ever stagnant; if one neighborhood changes, so will another. And another. And the one after that. Ditmas Park might be taking a step backwards but maybe another neighborhood might become more multicultural. And, what if it doesn’t change? People of different ethnicities and cultures are always going to be moving in and out of neighborhoods.