New York City Culture Essay

We are not longer a small band of travellers, we as a species have settled down across great lands, in which we have developed a notion of community. This idea represents home, in a literal sense meaning a physical location, while also representing the very heart of the community. This however, differs from across various populations and population sizes, but in major cities across the United States of America, we are keen to our imagined metropolitan community, for which we are willing to give up almost everything just for pride and self-esteem. This heart is often times the major sporting culture of a given city, for example the famous New York Yankees who hold the structural and imagery glue to bond and fuze the public and the social identity of the city resulting in the experience of communitas for the citizens of New York.

In this essay, I analyze the different roles of the New York Yankees, as a sporting organization on the

After the Baltimore Orioles, the previous name of the organization, moved to New York, and the Seinbenner story, New York became a force to be reckoned with in the world of baseball. Now you may be asking, how does this define such a big city like New York? New York’s economic growth and boom attracted various people, but among those were competitors for obtaining success, correlating to the nickname of New York City, the “Big Apple”. For a city that is very isolated in terms of its communical connection, and social influence, the sporting persona that the Yankees brought upon New York changed it completely, and is now an integral part of the culture. New York City is now the ideal place for sub-tensions of individualism vs. collectivism, because of the individualized lifestyle, but the collective nature of Yankee pride, and symbolic meaning that is now the identity of the city is the bridge that connects these “unconventional identifications” (Perks,