San Francisco Culture

San Francisco has always been a culturally diverse city in America. I would still consider San Francisco a gold mine as there are many intelligent people who want to create and produce the best new technology. The city has a wide range of communities ranging from the LGBTQ communities to the Chinatown communities. San Francisco hasn’t changed, apart from getting completely destroyed and rebuilt from the cause of an earthquake. The city is diverse and lively and it is a good thing that it hasn’t changed over the years. In “Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906” Barbara Berglund talks about the different genders, ethnicity, social classes and different cultures and how they helped shaped a diverse San Francisco today.

However, that didn’t go as planned as San Francisco was later turned into the center point of America as many people wanted to move to California for riches and better Job opportunities. San Francisco developed from presidios into a metropolis of a diverse culture. Barbara later talks about the three different places of amusement of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Science, Barbary Coast, and Woodward’s Gardens were significant in social assertion. She then identifies that Chinatown was constructed to be a tourist attraction and later showed how the Chinese were culturally diverse and were later marked as “exotic yet vilified”. Fourthly, Berglund talks about how the annual Mechanics’ Institute’s fairs helped propel the cultural ordering through dissemination of a vision for social order which revolved around families, genders, and the economy. Lastly, she addresses that San Francisco was domesticated enough to be considered American yet was very much diverse racially and