Holidays may offer some compensation, but everything has its season. Next of kin are those who cause maximum annoyance. They are parsimonious neighbors, noisy kids, funny couples. First annoyances are quickly made emblems, forever there to fall back on. The others are scrutinized distrustfully, in a form of surveillance which it is impossible to sanction since there no longer exists any common exchange to define a norm.
Normality can no longer define any aberration.
Only drug-related nuisance, streetwalkers' districts, travelers' sites and refugees' centers may now temporarily unite citizens in mobs, for fear of declining property values. There is more to separate us than mere garden fences. Therefore, too, accusations of racism or discrimination are off the mark here. There isn't any moral order to deteriorate into bigotry. Stereotypes get blurred.