VIP Class Notes (Phil)

Today we focused on:

discussion about city development and social changes

Vocabulary

crude-  direct and unsophisticated type of humor

stingy – dont like spending money (tight informal)

economical– positive label of someone who is careful with money

to economize –

to look down on someone – to view them negatively

gentrification, to gentrify – to modernize an old traditional area or building .

relic – symbol or represetation of the past

nationalistic