There Goes The Neighborhood

In the history of humans, there have been many instances when different groups of people must share the same community. During these times, ideas and cultures and technologies were mixed, but conflict between the two groups was bound to arise.

When Europeans first came in contact with the locals of the New World, indeed the aforementioned items above were exchanged. The Europeans and Native Americans exchanged cattle, iron-working, religions, foodstuffs, diseases, and more. Unfortunately, over time, the differences of the societies became too apparent and rose to violence. European want for land and converts to Christianity, along with just plainly viewing the natives as inferior led to conflict. The new settlers and explorers' superior weaponry combined with their diseases they brought ended up decimating native populations. This would be a perfect example where basically all locals were wiped out resulting from the new arrivals, thus the term "There Goes the Neighborhood" as we would call this scenario today.

Not always would the newcomers clear out those who lived in the so called "Neighborhood" originally inhabiting the region. Such an example would be a situation we today should be very familiar with- when we take our metaphor literally. Since nowadays we live in a quicker paced world, we often see new people moving in and out of our neighborhood, especially in cities. When these people move in, rarely is the case that the rest of the members of the community would be cleared away. In a world where illiteracy is at its rarest and news travels globally, people are more connected than ever. Thus, those newcomers to your neighborhood are sure to have multiple things in common with your other neighbors. These common things create connections that lead to friendship and prevent conflict from arising. 

Of course, there is an incredible amount of examples where two groups of people must come together to inhabit the same area. Of these cases, many of them lead to conflicts, whether large or small, through having different beliefs. And when the conflict gets out of hand and one group must leave, a person living today would say: "There Goes the Neighborhood".