Pre-modern stranger responses survive in modern cities in modified form

Evidence

If the appearance of a stranger today, in our urban and mobile and tourist-haunted world, is less frequently evocative of wonder, curiosity, astonishment, hostility, hospitality, suspicion, and delight than was the case in times past, such responses have not disappeared altogether. There are still places, isolated from the comings and goings of modern life, where a stranger might be killed or feasted or gaped at or gossiped about. Sometimes these little pockets of preserved history are to be found, in modified form, in the middle of great cities. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Directly challenges the clean modern/pre-modern split in Simmel and Lofland’s own framework — pockets of intense stranger-response persist inside great cities. Bridges to Julius’s ambivalence toward strangers in Home Boy. — connects to: Early twentieth-century migration turned life into self-created improvisation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 105
• QUESTION: Which micro-locations inside great cities retain these responses — ethnic enclaves, gated communities, tourist zones?