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I live uptown and I am all over uptown all the time, I would like to exactly where this is occuring and examples of the types of rudeness displayed. I have been called white b**** by Dominicans that work in a certain supermarket uptown followed by remarks made about my darker niece just because we were together and they didn't know we were related. When I went in by myself it was never a problem. I was very hurt and surprised by this. While I am not Dominican I have Latin ancestry and close Dominican friends. These employees were very young people which really made me feel worse because I wondered who is teaching them this stuff. I have never experienced this with hipster yet.
I have ZERO sympathy for people who display racist attitudes toward white people who go into "their" neighborhoods, even if those white people are changing their neighborhoods. I also have zero tolerance for all the ignorant Dominicant and Puerto Ricans in this City who seem to have forgotten that millions of Latin Americans are white. The few times low-class, ghetto Latin people have talked smack IN FRONT OF ME about "white people" (which it is pretty clear I am) I have countered it with something to the effect of:
-Have you forgotten that not all Latins are black/mulatto like you?
-Been to Latin America lately? Plenty of people who look like me.
Or, in perfect Spanish: I'd appreciate that you not voice your racist attitude in front of me. If you feel that way, at least have the decency to keep it to yourself.
I have only dealt with this three times and those were my responses to the Latins "of color" who had the audacity to talk smack in front of me in their ghetto English or Spanglish. I have never been called names due to being white from any African-Americans in NYC, but maybe that is because I haven't spent a significant amount of time in any African-American neighborhood.
Though I am glad that people on this thread haven't justified what has happened to you, often people DO justify the racist responses of the black and "colored" Latin residents. This becomes a heated topic and sometimes people stoop as low as to justify racism to keep hipsters out of their neighborhoods.
Don't put up with that crap; put the people who accost you in their places...
I have worked in a lot of uptown schools as a substitute and have seen students pay more attention to their hipster activities than the school work which is assigned to them. Many of them are born in New York City but can't speak proper English. Many young kids spend more time looking and sounding like hipsters, but are not concerned about what happens after school. It is no wonder so many students drop out before beginning high school. I mean back in the day I was into grunge but you did not see me wearing flannel shirts and listening to Alice in Chains every minute of the day.
A few days ago while teaching social studies in one of the cities many middle schools I had a confrontation with a 12 year old female hipster who was upset with me because she wanted to turn her boom box up while I was teaching a lesson on the nation’s economic problems. She cursed me, called me a white xxxxing so and so and then threatened to kick my butt. I called a dean and had her taken out. At some point someone at home should tell these kids that being cool matters little when you're in your twenties and can't find a job because you never completed high school.
I have worked in a lot of uptown schools as a substitute and have seen students pay more attention to their hipster activities than the school work which is assigned to them. Many of them are born in New York City but can't speak proper English. Many young kids spend more time looking and sounding like hipsters, but are not concerned about what happens after school. It is no wonder so many students drop out before beginning high school. I mean back in the day I was into grunge but you did not see me wearing flannel shirts and listening to Alice in Chains every minute of the day.
A few days ago while teaching social studies in one of the cities many middle schools I had a confrontation with a 12 year old female hipster who was upset with me because she wanted to turn her boom box up while I was teaching a lesson on the nation’s economic problems. She cursed me, called me a white xxxxing so and so and then threatened to kick my butt. I called a dean and had her taken out. At some point someone at home should tell these kids that being cool matters little when you're in your twenties and can't find a job because you never completed high school.
What? I think you are mistaken about what hipsters are, granted they are loosly defined, but a 12 y/o in an uptown middle school is far from a hipster.
You are speaking more of a rebelious youth mentality.
I have ZERO sympathy for people who display racist attitudes toward white people who go into "their" neighborhoods, even if those white people are changing their neighborhoods. I also have zero tolerance for all the ignorant Dominicant and Puerto Ricans in this City who seem to have forgotten that millions of Latin Americans are white. The few times low-class, ghetto Latin people have talked smack IN FRONT OF ME about "white people" (which it is pretty clear I am) I have countered it with something to the effect of:
-Have you forgotten that not all Latins are black/mulatto like you?
-Been to Latin America lately? Plenty of people who look like me.
Or, in perfect Spanish: I'd appreciate that you not voice your racist attitude in front of me. If you feel that way, at least have the decency to keep it to yourself.
I have only dealt with this three times and those were my responses to the Latins "of color" who had the audacity to talk smack in front of me in their ghetto English or Spanglish. I have never been called names due to being white from any African-Americans in NYC, but maybe that is because I haven't spent a significant amount of time in any African-American neighborhood.
Though I am glad that people on this thread haven't justified what has happened to you, often people DO justify the racist responses of the black and "colored" Latin residents. This becomes a heated topic and sometimes people stoop as low as to justify racism to keep hipsters out of their neighborhoods.
Don't put up with that crap; put the people who accost you in their places...
It’s sad that many of these young kids don't understand that the very neighborhoods they live in were once filled with immigrants who came to the United States in an earlier time and from other counties and for the most part did not speak English as well.
What? I think you are mistaken about what hipsters are, granted they are loosly defined, but a 12 y/o in an uptown middle school is far from a hipster.
You are speaking more of a rebelious youth mentality.
Uptown for me means 207 street Washington Heights.
It’s sad that many of these young kids don't understand that the very neighborhoods they live in were once filled with immigrants who came to the United States in an earlier time and from other counties and for the most part did not speak English as well.
There is a big difference between hipsters and immigrants from other countries.
Uptown for me means 207 street Washington Heights.
Ok, but you are still msunderstanding what a hipster is.
A hipster is someone in there 20's to 30's who moves to an urban city from out of town.
They have a particular style of clothing and a stupid attitude.
This thread is about their rudeness in uptown neighborhoods.
125th Street up to 207th and beyond. Harlem, Washington Hts., Inwood, Bronx...
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