Listening To Haas & Hahn Tedtalk Community Analysis

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Listening to Haas & Hahn Tedtalk, the community that they talk about is an urban community. They mention a few things that brings about this assumption. For example, “within the cities, known for problems like crime, poverty, and the violent drug war between police and the drug gangs” (Haas & Hahn, 2014, 00:42). According to Ashman (2011) there are five problems that urban community face but one stands out which is “problems such as poverty, discrimination, overcrowded housing, crime and violence, homelessness, high rates of school dropout, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS exist in the communities” (Ashman, 2011, p. 296). This problem is big problems because of the many people that come in and out of this community and most of them are immigrant who came from other place to this community. …show more content…

283). This community is made up of so many people including of immigrants who comes in hope of a better live but things are not as easy as they would have hoped it to be. There are also constant wars with the police. According to Haas & Hahn (2014), they state, “during that time, another war broke out between the police and the drug gangs” (Haas & Hahn, 2014, 03:40). There is a struggle for power in this community. The gangs wants to be in charge and they cannot if the police are there and they just keep fight and the fight does not just affects them but it also affects the community as a whole because they cannot function they way that they ought to

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