Talk:Culture in Boston

This needs lots of work - how about sections on libraries, colleges, cultural activities at places like the French Library, film, etc. Smawnmahlau

It's a little stunning that the Irish and Catholic portions are vague or nonexistent, given that Boston is "the Irish Catholic" city to most Americans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:CA00:138:2E92:0:0:A62:174 (talk) 18:52, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

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Needs significant work
I noticed that this article hasn't really been touched much in at least five years. I don't want to add uncited content to it but how would an article like this be properly weighted? As an example, as a local tech worker born and raised in Massachusetts, it strikes me how few seafood restaurants seem to exist here and how rare Boston accents are. Boston, and all of Eastern Massachusetts, is incredibly wealthy. Sure, there's that Twain quote at the beginning, but you could just as easily say "And this is good old Boston / The home of the bean and the cod / Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots / And the Cabots talk only to God" and use this as evidence that it's a stuffy, blue-blooded town.

My personal opinion is that Boston has capitalized on this Irish-American, Working-class townie version of itself in the shadows of some cloistered elite that hasn't really existed in thirty years, because that's what it is to Hollywood. On the ground, it's just another high-tier global city, with all that that entails. The crushing poverty and soaring wealth. The sushi restaurants you'd find anywhere. The vague international architecture. Immigrants from every place from El Salvador to China and rural Iowa to Philly's Main Line suburbs.

That kind of brings up a closely related topic: What is "Boston?" The focus on education seems to imply we're at least counting Cambridge, but a lot of "culture" is going to go out into the suburbs at least.

A good question to start from might be "How is Boston not New York? How is it not San Francisco?" Stereotypically, it's an even less friendly city than New York and looks at hard work differently than the West Coast? Those could be cited relatively easily, but it's not a neutral point of view.

CSZero (talk) 00:42, 17 July 2023 (UTC)