According to Florida, the “creative class” is a new social class, which is established because the economy has great need for creativity. This new social class contains people from different communities who want to create their own identities. They identify themselves as creative people. The creative class enables creative people to build relationships quickly and eventually share knowledge with other people who need it. Also, the creative class encourages everyone to share personal responsibilities for achieving the organization’s objective. In addition, Florida points out that the creative people cluster together in certain communities, not because there are many job openings for them, but because these communities are the center of creativity and are also where they prefer to live. Furthermore, Florida states that the creative people do not want to be pigeon-holed and do not want to contribute to one way of life because creativity means variety. They do not want to work at dead end jobs because they want to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. Moreover, Florida is concerned that the creative class has changed our fundamental social forms of living. Rather than staying in one community, people are now moving around, which voids them of living and dying in the same communities. Instead, they seek places where they are able to make more new friends in different environments, and hence they can learn new cultures which open up their minds. However, while increasing and making new friends and ties with strangers, they end up wakening these with relatives and associates within their original communities. Therefore, creativity will lead to weaker communities.
I agree with the reasons that Florida concludes as why creative people are responsible for damaging the social life among communities. I see people move from one community to another very often. When I went to Chinatown, I learned that the population has increased a lot. The creative Chinese people left their previous communities, and live in Chinatown with the thought that they are able to make more new friends who speak their own dialect and share a similar background or culture. However, at the same time, some of their family members and friends who are unwilling to move to Chinatown will stay in the same community where there will spend the rest of their lives. Afterwards, their strong bonds will be weakened and eventually eliminated. If we try to maintain and build our community, we will be able to strengthen human connections with our neighbors. In addition, we will be able to spend more time enjoying our interests with our families and friends. Moreover, we will regain “the strong sense of communality and civic-minded spirit that are the source of our prosperity” as Florida points out.
In conclusion, our modern American society has been exposed to radical social changes. These changes are greatly affected by the contributions of the creative class. However, it is important that people generally return to their communities to keep their values alive.
Admin This is a little unusual for this assignment. You're criticizing an idea from a book, rather than the book itself. That's an original choice, but I think it works well. There are still some small proofreading problems, but you've done a better job this time. I think this could be stronger with a conclusion about what this kind of idea should do--the standards you're using to judge the idea in your criticism.
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