Inequality in Jerusalem
During the readings, one of the things that caught my attention from “Second Person Singular” by Sayed Kashua was the interactions between different social / socioeconomic groups in Jerusalem. During the dinner, it is explained how inflation occurred because of the influx of immigrants. The immigrants are described as “rich, exploitable foreigners” (Kashua 2011, 5), which depicts how the locals view them. In contrast, it is explained how the locals prefer the ‘foreigners’ to the “rest of the riffraff that were apartment hunting around there—Palestinian collaborators who had been relocated to east Jerusalem by the Israeli security services” (Kashua 2011, 6). These viewpoints are interesting, but they are pretty much what is expected between these groups. A bit further in the story, it is explained how the lawyer chose to represent a ‘stronger clan’ in an internal conflict in Jerusalem. All of this disparity between social groups reminded me about a topic that was discussed heavily in a
