I went to Valley Fair Mall last week, and it gave me an indelible impression . First, Parking building is beside the mall, so it is short distance for customers to come into the mall. Second, This mall have over 200 stores. Every store has its own style as well as its own culture. However, most of the stores are white stores just like other places in United States. Finally, they have a luxury first floor, which are all marbles. There are also have many famous Luxury store, and the customers are rich; while in second floor, it is not as luxury as first floor. I seldom see famous brand store in second floor. There are few rich customers.
The first two point that I mention above is very common, I don't want talk too much. However I want focus on third point. In the same building, poor people seldom go to first floor. Rich people refuse to go to second floor. This is a society's illness, which is rich people despite poor people. And poor people have aversion with rich people.
I never think I am a rich people as now I am a full time college student. I wanted to find out why poor people seldom went to first floor, so I went to LV store which was on the first floor. When I came inside LV, I didn't feel comfortable at all. The salesmen were handsome, but none of them smiled at me, which made the atmosphere tense. It also implied me that I was not suppose to be there, but I didn't care. There was no salesman came to say hello to me until 2 minutes later. Meanwhile, A 40 years white man came ( It seems that he was rich) inside, everybody smiled at him. At least 3 people came to serve and followed him. However this man is not friendly at all; I did not see his smiling, all I see is his vainness. He came out from this store soon. This experience told me that, rich store don't welcome poor people, and why poor people don't go to first floor.
Base on the knowledge from Humanity class, I know the majority of population is not white. 59% family's income is less than 100,000. 65% residents don't have Bachelor's Degree. These data can tells us that the majority people are not white and they are not rich. However, in Valley Fair Mall, 90% of the stores are for whites. ( White are there ideal customers) . For business man they just care about profits. They don't care about races and cultures, but care about rich people.
If I have a chance to solve this problem, the first thing I will do is to give more money to school, for knowledge is power. In San Jose, there are still 35% resident have bachelor's degree. The rest of them need educated. Only education can save poor people, for most of poor people they don't know how to think and they have wrong opinions. Education can help get rid of wrong thought. Plus, education can educate rich family's kid. Form the power of knowledge, rich people know how to be nice to poor people. Then I will charge more money on luxury store taxes, and also charge more taxes on who bought luxury stuff. Using the luxury tax to help education or work trainning system. Finally , I won't do anything for the mall, except for charge them more tax. I know mall is a commercial place, If they don't have profit then it will close soon, which is bad for our economics too.
