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How come people from Brooklyn they are so proud saying "I am from Brooklyn". People from other places they never emphasize "I am from Miami or Philadelphia" etc...why is that?
How come people from Brooklyn they are so proud saying "I am from Brooklyn". People from other places they never emphasize "I am from Miami or Philadelphia" etc...why is that?
I've heard people proud to be from Philly and Miami... as well as the Bronx and Manhattan, etc. Do you have an example or is this just personal experience?
I over hear people talking and they always have to mention they are from Brooklyn. I live in Allentown where we have a lot of people moved from the five boroughs .....
There are a lot of New Yorkers who identify with their neighborhood or their borough more than the city as a whole so they'll say I'm from Brooklyn or Queens or "the city" (Manhattan) when they're talking to out-of-towners. Or they'll claim their enighborhood if they're talking to other New Yorkers. "I'm from The Upper West Side, or Forest Hills, or Canarsie," or whatever. I think people do it because the city is so huge, identifying with one particular neighborhood just cuts it down to size and makes it more manageable.
It's probably because outsiders (non-new yorkers) automatically think you're tougher/cooler when you tell them you're from Brooklyn. I also think some new yorkers don't want to be categorized as some sort of "rich manhattanite". So they proudly proclaim they are from Brooklyn!
Even back in vaudeville days, performers would get a crowd going by saying "Anyone here from Brooklyn?". And it will always be like that, I think. People from Brooklyn take pride in being from there. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for nine years, and even when I didn't tell people where I came from (if I said "New York", for example), someone would say "hey - he's from Brooklyn".
Might have something to do with Brooklyn's blue-collar connotations. Years ago, I was discussing the Beatles with a Londoner, who explained to me that Brits think of Liverpool the way Americans think of Brooklyn. The way she put it, people from there are smartasses, with a quick answer for everything.
It's probably because outsiders (non-new yorkers) automatically think you're tougher/cooler when you tell them you're from Brooklyn. I also think some new yorkers don't want to be categorized as some sort of "rich manhattanite". So they proudly proclaim they are from Brooklyn!
And they have the swagger going on.
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