Blogging Social Difference in L.A.: Week 9

This past Saturday I went to LACMA and after that I went to the Farmer’s Market at the Grove in La Brea. I chose this area because there is a very high amount of diversity. Many different people from many different backgrounds come here to eat and shop daily. The Farmers Market has many places to eat from all different kinds of ethnic backgrounds like, Mexican, Greek, French, Spanish, Korean, etc. There are many different kinds of shops in the area too that sell anything from produce to jewelry.

In David Harvey’s Neo-Liberalism as Creative Destruction, he says that “neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices which proposed that human well-being can best be advanced by the maximization of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterized by private property rights, individual liberty, free markets and free trade.” Neoliberalism and the rights to free trade is what has made the “Farmer’s Market” possible. Different types of food from all different types of countries are imported here, so businesses can sell and make food from that region. Different objects are made in different countries and sent overseas to be sold here too. 

Here is a panoramic photo inside the Farmers Market. As you can see there is different types of food to choose from and many different types of people.

Korean BBQ, one of the different types of ethnic food here.

Spanish Tapas from Spain.

This last picture is a little off topic, but I thought was really interesting and relevant to the class. At LACMA there was an installation piece called "The Metropolis II." Looking at it, it seemed that the lower-class or less elite would be located at the bottom layers, and as you go further up in society or the more elite you become, you would be located at the upper layers.