It was while I was attending Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas that I got the culture shock of my life. Being in a place like Lubbock makes you really appreciate liberal cities which I had taken for granted before. Well, at first i really tried to look at Lubbock with an open perspective, but after a year I couldn't handle it and went back home to attend the University of Houston. Houston is a great city with so many things to offer, for example a performing arts and cultural district that Dallas or any other city in the south could ever dream of having and Houston has it. Houston is by far the most international city in the south.
Racial relations are actually pretty good here compared to most of the south.
Houston has not only have a large Hispanic and African-American community, but also a huge Vietnamese population as well as other ethnic groups that make up this wonderful city. Another important aspect is the Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgendered community which is extremely large and sophisticated. The GLBT community has made great strides in recent years, not only do we have openly gay woman on city council, the wonderful Annise Parker, but now the city has liasion to the GLBT community as well thanks to the great Mayor we now have, Lee Brown, who is also the first African-American mayor of Houston. Houston is indeed a exceptional place to live with a bright future. Here are some of my observations about Houston.