I often romanticize 'moving to the city' and utilizing public transportation. I have grown up in suburbia, and when I go to design school next semester, I surely won't be taking a car. It seems like I could really get in touch with the 'ebb and flow' of the city/the cultural zeitgeist of the common man by riding buses/subways/monorails every where.

But then I saw this video where a Chinese woman and a Black woman 'go at it.' It seems dangerous, like there is a whole 'cultural disconnect' underlying their shouting match. I understand that blacks and AZNs h8 one another, but it seems like they should settle this type of disagreement outside of the bus by having a constructive conversation about their hardships, eventually understanding that they are 'basically the same person, except they speak different languages.' I feel worried that some sort of 'act of minority angst/social repression' would take place on the public transportation vessel that I am riding on. What if it was 2 teenage minorities with guns? What if a group of minorities go on some sort of 'shooting spree'/'hostage takeover' of the bus? Sorta wish that I could make them realize that no1 on the bus is 'that much richer' than them. Sorta wish u could channel their angst into something useful, like a 'kewl new genre of music' [via horrorcore 2.0] instead of acts of violence.

Worried/concerned. I feel like I want to depend on public transportation, but I just want to be safe + stay alive. I think that 'uncultured' people are not able to appreciate the beauty of public transportation since they have never owned a car/had their parents buy one for them. It seems like if they understood the hardships of car ownership (insurance payments, oil changes, neverending maintenance, have to pay summer job teens 2 wash ur car, finding parking spots, etc), then maybe they would chill out, and realize that public transportation is truly the best way to live? Maybe if they understood our nation's foreign dependence on oil, they would 'appreciate' the public service they are doing by utilizing a public resource.

Do u have any tips 4 staying safe on public transportation?
Should women use public transportation alone?
Have u ever seen something violent/zany/tragic happen on a bus/subway?
Would ur life be more meaningful if you could take youtube vids of zany cultural disagreements happening in ur bustling city?