One vector is, typically speaking, suburban neighborhoods tend to be more homogenous than urban neighborhoods. Homogenous neighborhoods tend to be in places that have similar characteristics, whether it's proximity to running trails, or proximity to great public schools, or proximity toSomething that feels a little bit more remote.
of passing interest in China and you're just getting news about it from sound bites you could easily come away with an idea that China is an essentially homogenous place or largely homogenous place. What I try to say in the book is that while it may be more homogenous in some specific ways than other places for example, unlike the United States there aren'ta lot of people who trace their descent back to totally different parts of the world; unlike Indonesia there isn't quite the linguistic variety there, it may not have as much religious
Mm-hmm. So, you know, when you think about neighborhoods, I can imagine kind of competing things going on. One is that they could be really homogenous because people tend to move into proximity of people like them, right? So, if I'm someone who likes to hang out in bars and go to cafes, I'm gonna go to a neighborhood where people are hanging out in bars and going to cafes,
and that stuff is around. And on the other hand, you can imagine things being homogenous . Really intensely polarized because the personal relevance of your day-to-day life is there.
But I do remember this one time where we were here researching and we went to a small suburban town, which shall remain unnamed for the larger part because it, you know it was an interesting experience, and it was, it's a very homogenous , very sort of upscale sort of, very pretty town, you know and myself and Karan and, and the, my co-dialogue writer, Niranjan were just sort of walking around and trying to see if this was a good place to shoot. And we got these really strange sort of looks and, and people were not being very friendly,
And I think in terms of the homogeneity or the heterogeneity of people in a neighborhood, I'd maybe think about two vectors. One vector is, typically speaking, suburban neighborhoods tend to be more homogenous than urban neighborhoods. Homogenous neighborhoods tend to be in places that have similar characteristics, whether it's proximity to running trails, or proximity to great public schools, or proximity to
I always watch this before I leave the house." I mean, 30 years later this show is still- Jane Espenson: Drawing young people. And if you, when I look back and think about my viewing slate as a kid growing up in Central Iowa in a very, sort of, homogenous part of the country, my viewing slate was "What's Happening" and "Sanford and Sons" and " The Jeffersons" and I watched all of these shows with a black cast and it never even occurred to me that they weren't for me.
so here's the thing. Danville, the town in the film, actually is not so representative of an actual city, and, "Oh, this is what transpires in this city and this is how these people are," but more a represen-, it's more representative of any small, suburban, homogenous town. And that's what's really important, you know? So, the fact that the, that, the town of Danville, which I actually quite enjoyed, was sort of stuck with me and I had a friend from there who talked about in her instance, being gay, and not, and not being very accepted
town of Danville, which I actually quite enjoyed, was sort of stuck with me and I had a friend from there who talked about in her instance, being gay, and not, and not being very accepted in, in growing up. But, it's kind of stayed with me and sort of, it sort of it flowed into something else. But it's really more about homogenous town and, and a close knit, small community and a reaction to something, to something sort of painful in their lives, so.
and I think often the media, and by that I don't mean what all Journalists write from China, there's some wonderful journalists working in China. But if you just have a sort of passing interest in China and you're just getting news about it from sound bites you could easily come away with an idea that China is an essentially homogenous place or largely homogenous place. What I try to say in the book is that while it may be more homogenous in some specific ways than other places for example, unlike the United States there aren't
a lot of people who trace their descent back to totally different parts of the world; unlike Indonesia there isn't quite the linguistic variety there, it may not have as much religious variety as India. It may be less heterogeneous in some ways than those places, but that's a far cry from saying it's largely homogenous . It's in fact a very diverse place. And even some of the things that are thought of as representing the largely homogeneousness of it when you push on it, start to collapse. For example it is commonly said that 90% of
variety as India. It may be less heterogeneous in some ways than those places, but that's a far cry from saying it's largely homogenous . It's in fact a very diverse place. And even some of the things that are thought of as representing the largely homogeneousness of it when you push on it, start to collapse. For example it is commonly said that 90% of Chinese belong to one ethnic group; the Han Chinese. And that their 55, 50 some odd other ethnic minorities, but they only comprise 10% of the population. But if you push harder