If L.A. is "fake" then what cities are "real"? (Los Angeles: private schools, approval)

[BarcelonaFan]

Yippies are the spawn of yuppies. They're too guilty to be right wing but don't have the cojones to be an all out hipster leftist, so they've formed some sort of hybrid between the two. Because they have all the best inroads to the best jobs in marketing, graphic design, computers,film, comedy, etc. they think they're so darn creative.

Because they're a hybrid of establishment or upper middle class parents and a liberal conscious, they end up thinking they're the right medium. The cool center. They think anti-establishment politics or being too left wing is too vulgar, mostly because they're in the verge of being bosses at their own start ups. So they resent their yuppie parents and the hipsters they ripped off, who still work menial jobs in their eyes.

They're basically trying hard to tweak the system they work in and will some day inherit. While the rest of us wish to overhaul it entirely, whether we are on the right or left end of the spectrum.

That's what these neo-yuppies are, at least the upperwardly mobile ones.

[Chicano3000X]

Originally Posted by BarcelonaFan

Yes, Austin is infested with them too.

And they tend to be really smug. At least in LA most people are nice.

I just never spent too much time in Austin and tended to stick to Houston.

Got your PM. Ya I was walking through Los Feliz to see how it was. A bunch of hipster types there.

SOme dude was in front of me walking a small dog. The way I was dressed, with my hair real short, he probably thought I was a cholo. I stood out like a sore thumb. I'm latino and most of them were white. I was walking behind this guy, he turned around a couple of times to see me, then right away made a random turn looking intimidated lol.

[BarcelonaFan]

Well I don't have a problem with hipsters really, just yippies which are the cleaner, nerdier, smuggier, and less secure in themselves offshoot of hipster.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by BarcelonaFan

Yippies are the spawn of yuppies.

Actually, Yippies were the countercultural political activist faction founded in '67 by Abbie Hoffman. Otherwise known as the Youth International Party.

"Ideology is a brain disease" was the motto. An idea that is as relevant as ever in 2012.

[New Horizons]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Says the poster who changed her user name in between posts in this topic.

I didn't know you could do that. I went ahead and changed mine too, it's no longer desert_scene, I never did like that name.

[jii9]

L.A. is as real as it gets in CA. What else would there be... San Francisco? Downtown Sacramento? The entire L.A. area is THE main area of CA, by population and economic activity and being famous. So it's real. It may not have many tall skyscrapers like NYC... but what city does? Fact is, maybe only London or Tokyo can compare to NYC.

[Bunjee]

I have an acquaintance from the Northeast whom I love, but she goes off on the same line. "Superficial!" "Fake!" "I'd rather people say it to my face!" But what comes as no surprise? She works in the high end retail fashion industry. It's so bizarre how people will make a nest of their own feathers, then complain about the smell. It's bizarre how a pretty intelligent person can't see past her nose even to look in the mirror. It's bizarre that she's saying this to a native Angeleno who's actually telling her to her face that she's full of crap.

Now she's talking about how more "real" Miami is. It's hopeless, really hopeless digging through yards of concrete.

[415_s2k]

Originally Posted by Bunjee

I have an acquaintance from the Northeast whom I love, but she goes off on the same line. "Superficial!" "Fake!" "I'd rather people say it to my face!" But what comes as no surprise? She works in the high end retail fashion industry. It's so bizarre how people will make a nest of their own feathers, then complain about the smell. It's bizarre how a pretty intelligent person can't see past her nose even to look in the mirror. It's bizarre that she's saying this to a native Angeleno who's actually telling her to her face that she's full of crap.

Now she's talking about how more "real" Miami is. It's hopeless, really hopeless digging through yards of concrete.

Now that's funny... I mean, granted, yes Miami certainly has some "real" parts, there's no denying that, but if one is going to go off of and slam stereotypes centered around glitz, glam, ostentatious wealth, hedonism, vapidity...

[415_s2k]

Originally Posted by Surfside__

Any city dominated by wealth, prestige, and materialism, is most defiantly fake in my book!

You must absolutely freakin' hate NYC and Boston, then.

[Surfside__]

Originally Posted by 415_s2k

You must absolutely freakin' hate NYC and Boston, then.

No I don't actually, it's all about how a city presents itself. There is a reason for why people stereotype certain cities. Because stereotypes are true to a certain extent or else they would never be stereotyped to began with. Certain cities attract certain types of people. NYC and Boston aren't dominated by superficiality as MIAMI and Los Angeles are. By dominated I mean, is that what they are particularly "known" for? The shallow, materialistic mindset where money, prestige , and your outside appearance is FAR MORE valuable than anything you have within? Los Angeles is the epidemy of materialism and superficialism and that is why many people classify it as "fake", not being real or authentic is what I also consider fake, when you smile in there faces but really deep down you do not care that is being fake. In Los Angeles it's all about image/materialism/money/phoniness rather than just being who we really are and accepting the things of what we have. Being fake is when the outside you and impressing others is far more important and gaining approval from others, than the inside you and just being yourself and accepting things as they are. Being all about the "outside" really only shows me you are insecure with yourself and empty on the inside so you try and make up for it by materialism and being all about your appearance. There is nothing wrong with having nice things and looking good, but you cannot be only about that, that's what shallow insecure people do, and unfortunatly LA is dominated by these types so that is why many people consider it "fake"