Inb4 you say "stop being racist", I'm specifically referring to white city slickers. They just make me.. uncomfortable for some reason. I was dragged to a mall today and.. ugh. They all reminded me of the 'popular kids'from high school who had the same manner of dress and way of acting.
A friend of mine in high school came from New York City to rural Canada for the boarding school (I was a local day student in on scholarship). He seemed very sophisticated and erudite, had expensive tastes etc. But then I heard this mf use “epitome” as the opposite of its actual definition.
They’re all faking it. Everyone is a poser just trying to be accepted, if you just present yourself authentically anyone worth interacting with will resonate with you being real and sincere. Don’t be afraid to ask questions or be ignorant of things, good people will treat you kindly and bad people will out themselves and save you the trouble. Don’t go in trying to impress people and you’ll leave a deeper impression than if you did.
Seriously though who the fuck uses epitome to mean “lowest example of a thing”? Like obviously he picked it up from context, but it’s the opposite meaning. My man didn’t read. I begged him, begged him!
Read something other than Malcolm Gladwell Challenge! (Impossible)
Diogenes was the only authentic human to have lived. Everyone else is putting on airs.
I heard this mf use “epitome” as the opposite of its actual definition.
(checking to make sure I've not been using epitome wrong all this time) :sweat:
Yeah sounds like brunch libs to me lol. Just gotta keep searching and hopefully find cool people.
r/streetwear, it's hard to explain. that's what I think it is. Like, actually paying attention to fashion or w/e.
Most people dress up like they’re going to the mall… which in my case is looking Mark Zuckerberg.
what does that mean? in a business suit?
I was dragged to a mall today and… ugh. They all reminded me of the 'popular kids’from high school who had the same manner of dress and way of acting.
OP I think you time travelled to the 90s
are you sure youre uncomfortable around city folks, or just uncomfortable around bougie white people?
White people seem to generally have less of a spark of humanity in their eyes honestly. Although that could just be me obsessively avoiding eye contact
It's because we're actually evil constructs built long ago by the devil scientist Yakub.
Agreed. Whites are inherently less than human. This is straight from Marx and will win over the working class btw
Just remember, they're just as scared of you as you are of them
No, wait, that's bears
kinda sounds like you have your own insecurities going on, too. malls are not indicative of "city folk," that's suburb folk a lot of the time.
I'm not even really a redneck or anything myself, but I remember this one time a friend in college had a friend from NY come to visit and he was annoying as shit
To elaborate, they were really "gaseous"... like they had to 'fill up' all the space in the room or at the table. Personally I couldn't really see myself spending time with that type of person
was he from NYC or was he from long island? lawn guyland people are, on average, as insufferable as you'd expect for people who live in the place where suburbs were invented and think that living near NYC gives them some kind of clout
That's very much an east coast thing. It's hilarious watching people from the east coast interact with people from flyover - they have no idea how to communicate, and they don't know why they can't communicate. It's basically porn for anthropologists.
Yeah, maybe just don't? These are the treats obsessed :maybe-later-kiddo: losers. Just walk around with your nose in hexbear glowering at anyone that bothers you.
I mean, we're talking about a very specific kind of American liberal.
But also yes. :doomer:
I dunno. I never really felt that off in the cities ive been in with regular people, but then i met some bougie white people at a wedding and it felt like i was a carnival display.
For me its old white people. I just feel super detached from situations with them. Thank god for old asian ladies.
Oh yeah, in my case, it was at a wedding i went to not long ago. Went to Philly (which ive been too quite a few times), and met met the grooms family. Upper crust white people. I'm native, and they basically turned into hyper-liberals around me. I was just there to eat their food, drink their beer, and grab some cigars, but they made it weird as hell.
Going to a mall is your problem. Only thing in there is overpriced garbage and the only reason to go is to post on your Instagram. Of course the people there are going to be awful.
That genuinely sounds wonderful. I'd be concerned about who else might be hanging around while there aren't too many people, though, in my area.
I'm from "da city" and these types still make me uncomfortable. White city slickers are generally really weird and hollow people. There are some cool ones, but my general impression of people who move to big cities these days is that they're incredibly affluent people who have grown up in essentially sterilized environment.
I know what you mean. The types you're referring to aren't the majority of city people, even the majority of white city people.
Just be confident around them and act like you belong, they're your run of the mill libs and would love to have the "diversity cred" of having a positive interaction with anyone that isn't like them.
"Diversity cred" applies to poors, country folk, punks, people with office jobs, ND people, etc etc etc. basically anyone not a carbon copy of them
That's the neat part. You don't. :think-mark:
I'm joking though. It will just take time and patience, yours and theirs. I can only assume many of them are just putting on appearances in front of strangers and may be nice to get to know if you give them time.
