""What's different about New York City is it tends to bring people together and so we can't ignore each others' dreams and values and it creates a much more inclusive consciousness," she said. "When you're in a more isolated environment, you're more susceptible to some ideology that's imposed on you.""
Nothing like being blind to your own viewpoint. I grew up in NYC and after many years moved to the South with family.
I found my attitude, viewpoint, and to be truthful, education was incredibly insular and lacking.
NYC for all its vaunted polyglot atmostphere is just a conglomeration of small villages where you may buy Chinese spices from a store in Chinatown, but for heavens sake, you don't socialize outside your tight little group.
This is more true than most people realize. Sure, there is lots of "diversity" in NYC when taken as a whole. However, break it down and look at it! There's the Irish neighborhood, the Chinese neighborhood, the black neighborhood, the Jamaican neighborhood, the Puerto Rican neighborhood... ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It really is just a collection of villages.