Monday, December 03, 2012

One City, Different Worlds

Recommended viewing while it's still available on the BBC iPlayer: a BBC 4 documentary which shows how "The American Dream" is little more than a mirage for those in areas like New York's Bronx district while a select coterie just a few miles south on Manhattan's Upper East Side entrench their privileged positions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p010jx3m/Why_Poverty_Park_Avenue_Money_Power_and_the_American_Dream/  .

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