New York city
Comments (0) New York’s uniqueness lies in its extraordinary amalgam of different cultures: it is a city quite literally built by immigrants as much as built by tycoons and high rollers. It is therefore difficult to pinpoint one overarching culture shared by all of its citizens.A walk amongst the city’s multilingual population will expose you to a wide variety of accents and speech patterns.
Though not often considered a college town, thousands upon thousands of students proliferate all over the city, attracted by the vast stores of knowledge kept here and the generous attitudes of some of the best research centers America has to offer : New York University in Greenwich Village, The School of Visual Arts in the Flatiron District, the New School near Union Square, Columbia University in Morningside Heights, and Fordham University in the Bronx:all of the above have ample endowments and extensive access to special collections in art, science, history, law, and medicine just by showing a museum or library a student identification card.
The city overwhelms you by its giant scope: by population statistics, it is easily larger than either London or Paris. There are hundreds of theatres, thousands of restaurants, Wall Street, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and a lot more of cultural peaks. It is the city that never sleeps, because the economy keeps turning 24 hours a day.New York or “The Big Apple”, such as the nickname sound of this metropolis, is more than a city. It’s an experience.
Despite the diversity, several characteristics do come to mind that could be considered common to most New Yorkers as a whole. With everything literally at their fingertips, New Yorkers are by definition savvy and worldly, and very little surprises or shocks them.On the other hand, New Yorkers are unfailingly proud of their great city, and this pride can, at times, come off as arrogance and an inability to see the positive beyond the Big Apple’s city limits.
