Coexistence

The Carlsbad Westfield Mall serves as a gathering haven for a quite diverse group of races The first thing that I noticed while walking back and forth through the mall was that it is totally catered towards marines and children. There is a merry-go-round, children’s play place, and for the little bit older kids there is an arcade. The next thing noticed was the shops located in the mall. Some examples of shops there were Pac Sun, FYE, Sears, Gap, American Eagle, Boot World, and Unlimited. These stores create the potential for people to have many different styles. The only downfall to this is that everyone’s style that shops in this mall is going to be almost exactly the same. The diversity is a bare minimum. This mall is also considered a “Middle Class Mall or even Lower Class Mall.” This mall does not compare value wise to places that are considered to be more higher class malls, like Fashion Valley in San Diego or South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. Some observations that I found were that people seemed happy and content, a lot of idleness takes place in these malls, hipsters were walking about, there is something for everyone, and teens and even pre-teens hang here. This brings up the concept of coexistence. Coexistence happens but not ideally. One example of coexistence is the European settlers and the Native Americans. The Native Americans were driven out of their land by the white man. Peaceful coexistence is what America strives for today.