Hegemony

As a youth I remember being amazed with how nearly every style of lifestyle and every type of personality was a possibility in Los Angeles. In a country already more diverse than a good deal of racially homogeneous nations Los Angeles is a city more free-spirited in its celebration of the extremes of life styles than all cities with exception to perhaps New York. You can find the poorest of people in Skid Row (spiritually and financially) less than two miles apart from the richest on Rodeo Dr. This proximity shows the access to wealth is not limited by palpable means but by restrictions caused by mechanisms of hegemony.