CP - Place Perspectives

Question 1

What is an insider?

Answer 1

Someone who feels at home within a place

Question 2

Give 3 examples of characteristics of an insider?

Answer 2

• born there
• hold a passport/citizenship for
• speak the language

Question 3

What is an outsider?

Answer 3

Someone who does not feel like a part of a place

Question 4

How may the feeling of being an outsider change over time?

Answer 4

• The person may begin to integrate into society
• may adapt the culture or language of that area
• they then begin to feel like an insider

Question 5

Why may someone begin to feel like an outsider?

Answer 5

• large influxes of immigrants in the area may change the characteristics of the place
• high streets may cater to new cultures
• these changes make the area feel unfamiliar to people who were previously insiders

Question 6

What is gentrification?

Answer 6

The renovation and improvement of housing so suit a middle class audience

Question 7

How can gentrification make insiders feel like outsiders?

Answer 7

• increases in house prices and making the area suitable to a new audience may make people who previously lived there to feel like outsiders

Question 8

What is the Other?

Answer 8

People who are unfamiliar or different to themselves

Question 9

Why may there be tensions between people and the ‘Other’?

Answer 9

• its easier to be prejudiced against someone and dehumanise them when they are different from you
• people may not like that others don’t have the same identity as them (e.g ethnicity, race, gender)