#26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
January 26, 2008 by clander
Often times if you ask a white person about where to travel, you will get a lot of responses. But if you ask them about New York, white people will go nuts. They love the city universally and all either live there, have lived there, will live there or want to live there.
White people like New York because it has artists, restaurants, a subway, history, diversity, plays, and other white people. It literally has everything white people need to thrive! The only thing it’s missing is nature, but Central Park is right there, and since you are walking all the time, you are outside!
If you are from New York, tell this to a white person. They will instantly be interested in you “what part of New York? and you are really from there?” When they inevitably tell you about your home town (“I know this great italian place…”) you should respond by saying “man, I thought place was only known to New Yorkers.”
Another secret fact about white people, if you are in group setting and the topic of New York City comes up, find the highest ranking white person and say “oh, are you from New York?”
To them, this means you are calling them cultured, cool, and urban. They will respond with something like “oh, well, I’ve spent a lot of time there,” or “I lived there for three years.” You will have instantly become more popular than all other people in the group.
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New York is far from a “white city.” What are you people talking about?
The fact that it is not a white city has no effect on white people liking it or not. For example, white people can still like black iPods.
Also I think you are taking this blog a little bit too seriously.
actually new york has something for everyone. it appeals to the “white” people for one reason & the other for their own reasons. a really super duper white place is like vermont, oregon, seattle. but new york has the sushi the pilates, the fashion industry etc. wall street. its great because one can cross all worlds. you an go direct to harlem, little india, china town, see a mosque, hear the koran. you can walk out of one world & experience another in minutes. rich poor, illegal, criminal, royalty. its all with second of each other. i like the kind of person who would choose new york!
I live in NYC, and you are absolutely right. NYC is owned and run by Jewish politicians; and then there is the rest, Harlem, Bronx, Spanish Harlem, ect. Not to mention the large influx of mexicans/ aka/illegals.
White People are a minority in NYC and I am one of them; I am reminded of my minority status everytime I walk out my door.
NYC dmographics
white- 43.88%
black- 25.10%
asian-11.73%
yeah whites definatly aren’t the majority in new york anymore… (sarcasm)
and can someone explain to me why white people don’t like to include jews as being white?? this has baffuled me for some time.
also, idk where you’re getting those demographics, since latinos aren’t even included, but my HS was only 13% white.
probably something to do with Jews not wanting to be included with whites
this is supposed to be a satire, this entire white people thing. i love it. its good to have fun, not be always so serious. im white too, nice to meet you! im born in new york &lived many years in boston. (i spent most of my life between both coasts. anything in the middle didnt exist). unfortunatly neither of those 2 cities are white any more. i think 65-70% black & “other” as they say. you dont even have to be technically white to have an elitist life style. just creativity, indivuality, upwardy mobile tastes, self esteem. many of the people i meet in new york are elitists from south america. most you do see are the workers. what about white trash??? theyre WHITE. thats why the title of this websight blog is strange. they would call us yuppies. remember the yuppie handbook? moving on: what about the white working class? they earn more in boston than many acedemics. some how they see eduated people as “rich people” w/chi chi tastes- not always true. its a class difference, its not economic, its social. back to your title “what white people like” its still very funny. matter of fact IM very proud to be white, & from new york. this politically correct thing young people have (&old time librals) lacks humor, creativity, & yes intelligence. thank you for letting me laugh again.
“unfortunatly neither of those 2 cities are white any more. i think 65-70% black & “other” as they say”
Not half as unfortunate as your grammar!
No Anonymous, you’re not a racist. You’re an idiot.
^white for sure
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
racist
Man, I love New York, I guess I’m that white. I’m Norwegian tho, so it’s more about experiencing such a large town.
White people are ridiculous…to respond to “karma” above….saying nyc is overrated and philly and baltimore are better is going to be the new white thing….white people just need to stop being such snobs…like seriously stfu
We grew up in Connecticut, about 45 minutes from Manhattan. I was meeting my sister outside “The Garden” for a Paul McCartney concert (out-white that!). When she saw us, she exclaimed “Welcome to my city” with her arms outstretched. It had taken me a good 10 minutes to explain to her where the Garden was and how to get there. White people who don’t even know “the city” think they own it because they grew up nearby.
I’m the whitest white here! I lived in New York for 30 years except for the years I spent living in London, the Algarve, and the South of France. How white is that!
Plus in New York I lived in a large studio 30 steps from the Met. Then in a carriage house in the Village. Then in a town house on the upper east side. Then in a loft in Tribeca below anybody knew there was a Tribeca. Then, finally, in a town house in Brooklyn Heights!
And now I live in an even whiter city: Seattle.
Am I white or what?
damn you must be rolling in the dough!!!!
It doesn’t matter where you have lived – you are still white!
vanderleun,
your mother must be proud.
You didn’t mention having lived in Boston, so you’re close, but no super-honkey.
how do you know he lived in boston????
Your good Green. Boston is extra good because it pulls in the “i love minorities of all types thing that’s why i live in an area where there aren’t any”
what????
I’m white, and I lived in NYC for 3 years…i try not to tell people because it’s overrated. Go Philly. Go Baltimore.
Tourists and Kansas wanna-bes go to NYC…well, I guess they are all white.
Forget it.
Get fat in Baltimore and free up your apartment for someone who needs it.
yeah go philly, and get robbed instantly.
I have never seen so much crime in nyc as I have seen here in Philadelphia, and I lived in a supposedly ~*bad*~ area of Brooklyn (aka non-gentrified)
I can’t speak for Baltimore but Philly is a cesspool of shit.
get out.
also, Baltimore is horrid
Oh so true, so true. I use the “I lived there for three years,” to fit in with white people. I am white, but I just want to move up.
I’ve lived here for 25 years and still don’t consider myself a “New Yorker” because I wasn’t born here. Thus these people who are all, “I’m a New Yorker; I’ve been here three months,” don’t impress me.
This is by far the best blog I’ve ever come across! I found it when trying to find something interesting for my Japanese students to read (I live in Japan!!). I am a vegetarian, I don’t watch the news, I don’t listen to mainstream music, I go to opera/classical performances 3 times a month, I eat organic food, I have a Reiki Master level attunement, and spend a lot of money on psionics, Ito Thermie and anything non-traditional. I have an undergraduate degree in Spanish. I have a doctorate in education, and so I guess that gives me permission to overanalyse things, and believe me, I do.
I have been to New York (my relatives live in Brooklyn). I do not like New York at all, and I believe that the city is grossly overrated and very dirty!!! Except for the MET Opera, the rest of it is caked in dirt. Gross!
By the way, I am not white (or American), but I was shocked at how accurately you’ve described my lifestyle, as those of some of my other friends.
Congratulations on a witty, insightful blog!!!
You don’t get it do you? This racist blog perpetuates stereotypes about people based on skin colour when what it really should be referring to is the privledged upper-middle class.
okay i’m black and i don’t think this blog is racist at all. there are just poking fun at stereotypes by making generalizations.
here here
Yes, I would agree that white people love Manhattan
While on travel there recently, I went to every major and local drugstore in Midtown and I could not find hair grease of all things (not one single type or brand). I couldn’t even find a trial size. So I asked an African American girl working there where I could get hair grease. And she said go to the Jamaica neighborhood in Queens.
What’s hair grease?
and collectively the white people shudder and think
“..ha…hair grease?”
screw you, NYC is not dirty you asshole. And it’s not freakin overrated….again, screw you.
i’m a native new yorker and a big snob about it because this city is awesome, but c’mon man, it’s filthy…
yeah, but you don’t own up to it. I won’t say anything about chinatown, but MY neighborhood is basically clean.
I pooped my pants
in a world of chaos…you are an anchor of stability
LAWLZ
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