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David Brooks, People Like Us

David Brooks, People Like Us

Read People Like Us and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What is Brooks’s main point?

Most Americans feel that diversity is fine for other people but not for them.

Americans really don’t care about diversity.

Diversity has largely been accomplished in America.

Most people today consciously surround themselves with people different from themselves.

2. What does Brooks mean when he says that James Chapin told him that “every place becomes more like itself”?

Eventually, all towns will look like one another because of cultural diversity.

Once people find a place with people like themselves, they flock to it.

Regionalism still has a very strong pull in most communities.

Most people in most towns are in a rut.

3. According to Brooks, when we use the word “diversity” today, we really mean what?

multiculturalism

political tolerance

racial integration

economic diversity

4. According to precision marketing firms, psycho-demographic clusters are based on all of the following except

what products people buy.

income.

desire for a diverse community.

what people like to read and watch.

5. According to Brooks, the dream of diversity is like the dream of what?

the way things used to be

equality

communism

utopia