Midwestern Us And Southern Us Culture Analysis

The Cultures of Midwestern US and Southern US I have often wondered what daily life for my friends in Texas is like. What are the day-to-day interactions with people like? What do you and your other friends do when you’re not at school? I asked my best friend Alex what his life was like living on the other side of the United States, and his responses were about what I had expected. Alex has lived in Texas for most of his life, and all of his teenage years so I felt that he was a perfect person to ask these questions to. Alex’s responses gave me the perfect information to compare and contrast the lifestyles of teens in the United States Midwestern and Southern suburbs.
Having lived in a Midwestern suburb most of my life I can say that the people and weather have two of the strongest influences on how the culture functions. The people in my hometown had a very strong sense of community. You waved at people you didn’t know while driving, held the door at restaurants, and said hello to people while walking around downtown. My friends and I would often times go to the park and play a pickup game of ultimate Frisbee with people that we could gather there. When it was warm out we would play disc golf, and go to the pool. Depending on what kind of cold was happening outside at the time, we would either stay …show more content…
With the obvious differences in the weather, teens of the south still enjoy playing disc golf, pickup games of whatever sport, and going to the pool especially. A noticeable difference is the people’s interactions there. People do not tend to wave as much in certain areas. It could be argued that one can find that form of distance anywhere, but it seems to be prevalent in the Houston suburbs. There is also the difference in the ethnicities one will find in the south. There is a much larger black, Hispanic, and Asian presence in the southern suburbs than in the northern

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