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To me a real New Yorker is someone born/raised in New York State. The same way someone from dallas or houston is a texan. Los Angeles or San Fran is a Californian. Long Island to Buffalo you are a New Yorker.
That's true, of course. But you know as well as I do that we're talking about, how shall I say, New York Citians.
The reason many native New Yorkers, especially those who live in the outer boroughs, feel a little territorial about their status as native New Yorkers, is only a reaction to some of the condescending, elitist attitudes carried by midwestern transplants towards those who were born and raised in NYC. There are other issues as well that have to do with class and culture...the fact that midwestern transplants seem to think everyone should be like them, up against the ethnically diverse natives who like their way of being very much. When elitist yuppie snobs with their whiney, pampered children start filling up and gentrifying neighborhoods that not so long ago were laid back and working class of course there is going to be resentment. And no, I don't subscribe to the theory said yuppie snobs put out that this resentment is jealousy.
You know I've noticed that, unlike other areas in this country, working class native New Yorkers don't seem to have the same problem welcoming immigrants from other countries into their ranks. I suspect this is because a hardworking, working class immigrant has more in common with the average New Yorker than some transplant from Ohio or Kansas who either makes over 150k a year, or who just moved to New York to party.
The reason many native New Yorkers, especially those who live in the outer boroughs, feel a little territorial about their status as native New Yorkers, is only a reaction to some of the condescending, elitist attitudes carried by midwestern transplants towards those who were born and raised in NYC.
yeah midwest, south, west transplants have no right to talk Mod cut: languageabout people in the entire tri-state area. no matter how long they've lived here.... tri-staters know more about new york than some clown who moved here from wolverhampton uk.
i heard some brit who's lived in manhattan 1 yr and he was makin fun of jersey....garbage~
i set that fool straight
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yeah midwest, south, west transplants have no right to talk Mod cut: language about people in the entire tri-state area. no matter how long they've lived here.... tri-staters know more about new york than some clown who moved here from wolverhampton uk.
i heard some brit who's lived in manhattan 1 yr and he was makin fun of jersey....garbage~
i set that fool straight
LOL I'm with you on that one The real NYers are the ones that live or lived there for a long period of time not the ones that are just moving there, and then they think that they know everything about NY.
The reason many native New Yorkers, especially those who live in the outer boroughs, feel a little territorial about their status as native New Yorkers, is only a reaction to some of the condescending, elitist attitudes carried by midwestern transplants towards those who were born and raised in NYC.
How shall I put it...you got that wrong! People from the outer boroughs reacting to the attitude of transplants? Never happened, and never will!
If you're trying to tell me, as a native-born Brooklynite, that I'm sensitive to what some person who comes here from the Midwest thinks, then I respectfully suggest that if anyone doesn't qualify as a "real" New Yorker, you're a charter member of the club.
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The real NYers are the ones that live or lived there for a long period of time not the ones that are just moving there, and then they think that they know everything about NY.
