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It seems like every major city in which there were once ethnic history and culture, white yuppies move in and ZAP the culture right out and the areas become very sterile. No longer do you have the Italian deli or Polish butcher, you have Jamba juice and Starbucks and some franchise chain store.......
That's not sucking the culture out...it's simply replacing it with a sterile one.
It's not just a white thing. The whole country is becoming that--from big city to small town. There used to be significant regional differences in this country--not so much now.
What about cities that have ethnic history or culture of white people?
OP said "yuppies". There is no such thing as culture of white people as a whole. Norwegian, Irish, Russian, all have individual cultures of their particular ethniciy, including white people.
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It seems like every major city in which there were once ethnic history and culture, white yuppies move in and ZAP the culture right out and the areas become very sterile. No longer do you have the Italian deli or Polish butcher, you have Jamba juice and Starbucks and some franchise chain store.......
It's so dry and bland.
Because money destroys what it touches. You cannot "change" the character of anything and expect it to remain the same at the same time.
As Steinbeck once wrote, "There are two sums of money; none, and not enough".
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....well, I just don't know. But if you're a fan of Snidely Whiplash, you've got to be one smart guy, that's for sure. 
