Stereotyping Brooklyn Nabes and Missing the Point
You guys are going to have a field day with this one: Some recent arrival who writes about Brooklyn for the Hartford-based Examiner tries to stereotype summarize some of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods (those that don’t qualify as places that scare me,” that is; Cringe!). A few of our not-so-favorite out-takes: Brooklyn Heights: “Basically a Manhattan neighborhood…
You guys are going to have a field day with this one: Some recent arrival who writes about Brooklyn for the Hartford-based Examiner tries to stereotype summarize some of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods (those that don’t qualify as places that scare me,” that is; Cringe!). A few of our not-so-favorite out-takes:
Brooklyn Heights: “Basically a Manhattan neighborhood that happens to be on the other side of the river.”
Windsor Terrace and Kensington: “The few ungentrified (read: affordable, or, in the words of a white friend who lives there, no white people) areas left in Brooklyn that are still somewhat downtown Manhattan accessible.”
Clinton Hill: “Still affordable without being crappy.”
Prospect Heights: “A no-man’s land between Park Slope and whatever lays beyond.”
Crown Heights: “Blacks + Hasidic Jews + other = race riots.”
Xenophobic much?
Getting to Know Your Brooklyn Neighborhoods [Examiner]
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sam…I’ll invite her over to one of the street picnics during the summer.
By the way, I almost knocked the wig off by accident. She kept staring at me. I think the woman didn’t like a black man standing over her while she read her Holy Bible. Racist.
She’s Asian so we might want to give her a pass on the racism….
She’s not Filipino….
YOU KNOW YOU ARE JAPANESE IF…
1. You’re obsessed with your hair, your car, and your clothes
2. You want to marry a Korean American or Chinese American woman
(males); or you want to marry a white guy (females).
3. You’re afraid of black people.
4. You know you are superior to all other Asians.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE KOREAN IF…
1. You smoke and drink too much.
2. You’ve got a bottle of Kimchi in your fridge.
3. You’re afraid of black people.
4. You know you are superior to all other Asians.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE CHINESE IF…
1. You think you’re the smartest people in the world.
2. You have a pager and cellular phone with you at all times.
3. Today’s steamed rice is tomorrow’s fried rice.
4. You’re afraid of black people.
5. You know you are superior to all other Asians.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE VIETNAMESE IF…
1. You eat at restaurants that have “Pho” on their signboards.
2. You have some relative who is Chinese.
3. You’re afraid of black people.
4. You know you are superior to all other Asians.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE THAI IF…
1. People offer to pay you for sex.
2. No matter what you eat, it’s not greasy or spicy enough.
3. You’re not afraid of black people, cause in some cases you’re
scarier than they are.
4. You know in your heart you’ll never be superior to all other
Asians, but you’ve learned to live with it.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE MALAYSIAN IF …
1. You don’t believe anything the newspapers tell you, but would
never say so in public.
2. The whole world (and George Soros) is out to destroy you and your
country.
3. You would never admit to being afraid of black people, because it
might disrupt racial harmony.
4. You don’t think you are superior to other Asians, but your food,
culture, english, humor, etc is.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE SINGAPOREAN IF …
1. You eat, sleep, smile and have sex according to Government
policy.
2. You don’t think Lee Kuan Yew is a facist dictator.
3. Government policy is that you shouldn’t be afraid of black
people so you aren’t.
4. You know you are superior to all other Asians, cause the
Government says so.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE FILIPINO IF…
1. You want to be a dancer, a singer, or an actor, even though you
have a job as a nurse, a security guard, or an accountant.
2. Some member of your family is a politician or a movie star.
3. You’re not afraid of black people; in fact, you wish you were
black.
4. You don’t care if you are superior to all other Asians or not,
because being Filipino is cool enough just by itself.
I almost knocked the wig of some Hasidic Yenta this morning on the train. How many times a day can one read the Bible without getting sick of it. I’ll never understand these people. Again, I want to know if the kitty is shaved too
Does anyone have a tel number of the Examiner so that we can all call and complaign. I find the article so offensive and racist. This woman should not be writing articles about a subject she knows nothing about.
Does anyone have a tel number of the Examiner so that we can all call and complain. I find the article so offensive and racist. This woman should not be writing articles about a subject she knows nothing about.
Does anyone have a tel number of the Examiner so that we can all call and compaign. I find the article so offensive and racist. This woman should not be writing articles about a subject she knows nothing about.
I think this journalist is way too terrified of Brooklyn to have ever visited.
DIBS, why not invite her over for a nice Bourbon Presbyterian?
“city blacks” one of the funniest phrases I’ve heard on here in a long time!!!!