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Whenever I see the word on this forum, with all its implicit (and not so implicit) snobbishness, I can't help smiling and thinking of the following scene:
A hoity-toity old rich WASP couple are having tea. The husband stops, teacup in midair, little finger daintily sticking out, and looks out the window. "Oh, Camilla, dear, just look at that. It's awful: the Negroes/******s/Jews/Catholics are moving into the neighborhood!" In the same way, Henry James regarded with disgust the Eastern European immigrants whom he saw as having irreversibly altered his beloved old town.
Newcomers should be welcomed. E.B. White said that there are three New Yorks--of which the greatest is the last. The natives give it stability. The commuters give it energy. And the settlers, ah, the settlers, those who were born elsewhere and came to New York in quest of something--they give it passion. And each one of them "generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company."
Pretty much. A lot of people like to never miss an opportunity to point out that they have lived here all their lives and feel it gives them some sort of special status, or that only they really know about "the real New York." When I hear that, I hear, "I live in a little box with little to no outside experience!"
Personally I think that makes you worse off than someone who came here from somewhere else. Living in another city or country does nothing but broaden your horizons and perspective on life. Of course not everyone ever gets the opportunity to move somewhere else for whatever reason, and they can't really be blamed for that, but if you have a chance, do it!
White kids from the midwest give us nothing but cigarette smoke and PBR.
"Transplant" is not commonly used to describe the immigrants who do actually add to the greatness of NYC.
Bingo!
This is why transplants are clueless.
West Indian Immigrants in Brooklyn are not transplants.
Chinese immigrants in Queens are not transplants.
South Asian immigrants in Brooklyn and Queens are not transplants.
Central Asian immigrants in Brooklyn are not transplants.
Young Americans moving to NYC because they want to live in the "big apple" (lol what does that even mean?) are transplants.
West Indian Immigrants in Brooklyn are not transplants.
Chinese immigrants in Queens are not transplants.
South Asian immigrants in Brooklyn and Queens are not transplants.
Central Asian immigrants in Brooklyn are not transplants.
Young Americans moving to NYC because they want to live in the "big apple" (lol what does that even mean?) are transplants.
Yes. Usually to make a movie,write a book,start a garden,end poverty,or start a band. Is nyc the only place in the entire USA where could tyr this. Fortunately for us they reach 30 and realize how pathetic they look. I met a transplant girl once that told me she made visits to the bronx to photograph inner city kids and that she gave them money and wished she could help them all. You know how many bands there are with "brooklyn" in their name and not a single member is from brooklyn. There was a miss brooklyn pageant and all the contestants were transplants. Enough is enough already.
West Indian Immigrants in Brooklyn are not transplants.
Chinese immigrants in Queens are not transplants.
South Asian immigrants in Brooklyn and Queens are not transplants.
Central Asian immigrants in Brooklyn are not transplants.
Young Americans moving to NYC because they want to live in the "big apple" (lol what does that even mean?) are transplants.
These immigrants mentioned above, though, did not move to New York because of its being New York per se. They would have moved to any city with economic opportunities, with the inflows determined by things like the difference between incomes in City X and their home country, the cost of transport, existing ethnic networks, the ease of immigration rules, etc. After all, there are huge Caribbean and South Asian communities in, say, London, and my corner newspaper vendor would probably be just as happy if his Gujarative relatives by chance had gotten him a gig in London, instead of in New York.
But the "young Americans" you deride, they actively chose the city because of strong noneconomic factors. By the same reasoning, those Americans who flocked to Paris in the 1920s you would consider clueless (Hemingway? Gertrude Stein?).
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