Rich white girls

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I went to a sort of public school district for rich white girls, 3-12. I think we were once mentioned on a Letterman list of snobby school districts. Then I went to a small liberal arts university with a hefty price tag that was also filled with rich white girls. At some point in all this, I realized that I would never be a rich white girl. My Facebook feed, however, is filled with them.

And I find this exasperating. By and large, these are good people. But this eat, pray, love shit has got to stop. One young lady went on a two month yoga retreat in India. And my Facebook feed was then filled with exotic pictures of India. And the oooos and aaahhhhs of other rich white girls.
I've been to India. Everything smells like shit. Where were the shit pictures I ask you? :sadwhy:


Another just "opened" up an online store where you can spend 150 dollars buying prints of pictures she took when she did a three month tour of Southeast Asia. She is in no way a professional photographer.

And the last one has been living the last two years in SE Asia. Writing a food blog. I'll admit that I'm a little jealous of this one. And her father is one of the most successful restauranteurs in Houston/Austin/San Antonio. So she might actually know what she's talking about.


My time in Asia was never exotic. It was just lots and lots of hard work. And the people weren't exotic. They were just other people, working hard.

So I guess what I'm saying is: I wish I were Julia Roberts.

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Chorn said:
I went to a sort of public school district for rich white girls, 3-12. I think we were once mentioned on a Letterman list of snobby school districts. Then I went to a small liberal arts university with a hefty price tag that was also filled with rich white girls. At some point in all this, I realized that I would never be a rich white girl. My Facebook feed, however, is filled with them.

And I find this exasperating. By and large, these are good people. But this eat, pray, love shit has got to stop. One young lady went on a two month yoga retreat in India. And my Facebook feed was then filled with exotic pictures of India. And the oooos and aaahhhhs of other rich white girls.
I've been to India. Everything smells like shit. Where were the shit pictures I ask you? :sadwhy:


Another just "opened" up an online store where you can spend 150 dollars buying prints of pictures she took when she did a three month tour of Southeast Asia. She is in no way a professional photographer.

And the last one has been living the last two years in SE Asia. Writing a food blog. I'll admit that I'm a little jealous of this one. And her father is one of the most successful restauranteurs in Houston/Austin/San Antonio. So she might actually know what she's talking about.


My time in Asia was never exotic. It was just lots and lots of hard work. And the people weren't exotic. They were just other people, working hard.

So I guess what I'm saying is: I wish I were Julia Roberts.

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Well you can easily become a white girl these days. It is the rich part that you will have to work on.

For your next commission get a pant suit and see how it works for you before going full speed ahead.

doghouse doghouse must have some elite friends who he can hook you up with.
 
Why was I not tagged in this thread? I love me a rich white girl, the my dream of coming to America can be finally realised.
 
The rich white girls at my high school only liked rich white jocks. Sadly I was a scrawny kid back then.
 
pauly - you are the Charles Atlas of our times!!!!

Did you get it all off the back of a comic and kick sand in their faces?
 
International Soul Affirmation is very, very big with people these days. Usually with people who have no soul, sense of purpose and who are underemployed by choice. Totally overrated. Become a Mormon and go evangelize in foreign lands. Or actually do something for people in the foreign land that you are visiting. Better yet, do something that will affirm your soul and help people in your own backyard. Then go abroad.
 
Anyone in need of International Soul Affirmstion can head to Kurdish Syria.
 
So now traveling is bad if you're white? You Americans sure love to make stuff complicated when it comes to race.
 
Monkeyface said:
So now traveling is bad if you're white? You Americans sure love to make stuff complicated when it comes to race.
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I don't think it's 'travelling' - it's getting on a plane to go and be an asshole in a foreign country. Then they go home and impress other assholes with their assholiness.

I think whites still dominate this activity, although I'm sure other races are guilty of it as well.
 
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I don't think it's 'travelling' - it's getting on a plane to go and be an asshole in a foreign country. Then they go home and impress other assholes with their assholiness.

I think whites still dominate this activity, although I'm sure other races are guilty of it as well.
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If you're talking about being a dick to local people then every single race is guilty of this. It's a universal quality.
 
Monkeyface said:
If you're talking about being a dick to local people then every single race is guilty of this. It's a universal quality.
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I think it is the need to do something life-affirming because everyone is doing it aspect that is being picked at here as it usually turns into a me thing.

 
Monkeyface said:
If you're talking about being a dick to local people then every single race is guilty of this. It's a universal quality.
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Sure, but this particular brand of dickishness is perhaps a field that is currently dominated by a particular type of white. I think that's the point being made here.
 
Thruth said:
I think it is the need to do something life-affirming because everyone is doing it aspect that is being picked at here as it usually turns into a me thing.
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Now that seems like a very American quality to me. Traveling is very important for a person, but it doesn't make the person doing the traveling important.
 
Monkeyface said:
Now that seems like a very American quality to me. Traveling is very important for a person, but it doesn't make the person doing the traveling important.
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You have to have a certain level of affluence to be able to partake in this particular past time, which tends to favor white people. Certainly not an American phenomenon though, plenty of douchey western Europeans enjoy it.
 
doghouse said:
You have to have a certain level of affluence to be able to partake in this particular past time, which tends to favor white people. Certainly not an American phenomenon though, plenty of douchey western Europeans enjoy it.
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So it has to do with wealth and not with race? I know it's all in jest, but you simply don't hear stuff like that in most of Europe.
 
Monkeyface said:
So it has to do with wealth and not with race? I know it's all in jest, but you simply don't hear stuff like that in most of Europe.
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It has to do with abundance of free time. Which takes money. Which white people have the most of.

You hear it all the time in Europe, Germany, France and the UK have practically made it an art form, and were at it long before Americans had the means to embark on such silliness. I'm sure the Chinese will fall in soon enough, but they haven't had money long enough yet.
 
doghouse said:
It has to do with abundance of free time. Which takes money. Which white people have the most of.

You hear it all the time in Europe, Germany, France and the UK have practically made it an art form, and were at it long before Americans had the means to embark on such silliness. I'm sure the Chinese will fall in soon enough, but they haven't had money long enough yet.
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No, I meant the concept of rich 'white' girls. Or rich 'insert skin colour' girls. We'd just call em rich girls.

The concept of a gap year isn't very special any more in Europe. Schools are nearly free, so kids usually get to save the money they make with part time jobs. So you have a couple of summer jobs or whatnot, and you go traveling for a year in between high school and university (which is also nearly free). Around the world tickets aren't that expensive, and in most countries you can live quite cheaply.

It's a year to see the world, experience different cultures and have some fun. If you do it solo it'll also make you grow up a bit, because wherever you go you'll have to take care of yourself. No one else to rely on. Once you have a job it won't be easy to take that amount of time off, so I fully support people doing it if they get the chance. I haven't met anyone that thinks it makes them special or important or whatnot.
 
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Monkeyface said:
No, I meant the concept of rich 'white' girls. Or rich 'insert skin colour' girls. We'd just call em rich girls.
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The rich white girls Chorn Chorn is talking about is just a different manifestation of a centuries old phenomenon. They are a visible symptom.
 
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I don't know any rich white guys who do this. Plenty that travel and travel Southeast Asia. When I was working like crazy in Korea, I travelled SE Asia in comfort (going as far as to rent out an entire bus to get somewhere).

But they do it with an entirely different sense of delusion.

Monkeyface Monkeyface
This might be akin to what English aristocracy used to do centuries ago. Or similar, at least.

But it isn't something that affluent Mexicans and Mexican Americans do (and I know quite a few). Nor do affluent African-Americans.

It has less to do with travel but rather the reasons for travel. For many of these rich white girls, it seems to be about gaining a very, very superficial exposure to the Other so that they can return to the US with some self-deluded sense of worldliness and profundity.
 
Chorn said:
Grand Potentate Grand Potentate
I don't know any rich white guys who do this. Plenty that travel and travel Southeast Asia. When I was working like crazy in Korea, I travelled SE Asia in comfort (going as far as to rent out an entire bus to get somewhere).

But they do it with an entirely different sense of delusion.

Monkeyface Monkeyface
This might be akin to what English aristocracy used to do centuries ago. Or similar, at least.

But it isn't something that affluent Mexicans and Mexican Americans do (and I know quite a few). Nor do affluent African-Americans.

It has less to do with travel but rather the reasons for travel. For many of these rich white girls, it seems to be about gaining a very, very superficial exposure to the Other so that they can return to the US with some self-deluded sense of worldliness and profundity.
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I can see how someone would overstate the importantness of their travels. I suppose it has to do with the fact that the USA is relatively isolated with a homogenous culture. That's just not the case in Europe, except for the UK, so traveling is seen as normal. Nearly everyone does it. It doesn't make you special.

However, there is a real difference in the way people view the world if you compare someone who's never been outside of their state or has lived in the same place for his whole life and someone who has traveled all over the world and has lived in multiple countries. They tend to be more open minded, more accepting of others who aren't like them or people who have different points of view.
 
Monkeyface said:
You know I'm not British, right? Surely the way I write shows I'm not a native speaker? Not that I'm any better at writing in my own language.
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Yes, what would incline you to believe that's what I thought? As far as I know you are a western European working in the financial sector in London.
 
doghouse said:
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You are the gift that keeps on giving. Grand Potentate Grand Potentate can we change his user name to Jelly of the Month Club?
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Americans keep saying that, but the individual differences between states are much, much smaller than the differences between countries. The fact that most of you speak English and identify yourselves as American is evidence enough of that.

From personal experience, wherever I've been in the US, I've always felt like I was in the same country. I've traveled all along the East coast, spent a reasonable amount of time in New York and Boston, have driven from Miami to LA, stopping at every major city and lots of sleepy small towns along the way (celebrated 4th of July with Mexican immigrants (who still called themselves Americans) in a tiny town in New Mexico), and have traveled all along the West Coast as well. The individual difference between states and cities are much, much smaller than let's say Sweden in comparison with Italy.

Hence, going back to Chorn's point, traveling might feel more special when you're an American than an European, because not many people do it (low percentage of people with a passport in the US), and you're more likely to experience culture shock due to the relatively homogenous culture in the US.
 
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