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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
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| But to me, these neighborhoods were part of the problem. L.A. is mostly a mish-mash of the very rich and the very poor, with very little in between. As a result, there's enormous favoritism, corruption, mistrust, animosity, and tension in the city, which could be alleviated by a fairer distribution of goods and wealth and a culture less grounded on conspicuous consumption. |
This is the case in EVERY city worth mentioning. In NY, one could cross over from uber-rich blue-blooded UES doorman buildings on 96th street to 97th and literally see crumbling low income slums and crack dealers on the corner just in ONE block.
But urban sprawl makes LA's poor so isolated, which is scary.
In NY educated upper middle class people ride the subway with people from the slums every morning, etc., so they are used to each other. Even the super rich can't help but rub elbows with to poor day in and day out. They co-exist.
This is NOT the case in LA and it's probably only a matter of time before the poor start rioting again. Hell, if it was a cold and miserable climate I think they would be rioting on a monthly basis already. |
The segregation definitely adds to the problem, but I've always been under the impression that there are a lot of areas in NYC where middle class white kids just starting out live side-by-side more impoverished people (I'm thinking of Inwood, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where gentrification is becoming a social problem). Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't know of any areas like that in L.A. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Adding "I know this is a generalization but..." doesn't mean it's ok to generalize an entire group of people, which is happening. |
You mean like how the country has implemented immigration policies that treat us all like disease-carrying, drug-using pedophillic womanizers, and the state-run major media outlets reinforce that stereotype on a regular basis? 
Anyway, these generalizations were made by a fairly large group of people, including LA gyopos. I was just reporting the findings of the focus group. |
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kyopo4life
Joined: 09 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: i definitely agree with all of you.. |
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| kyopos in L.A are downright the worst scums in this earth. I really get angry when I see the gangster wannabes and the Korean American girls. The girls here think they are gongjus=princesses and hella snobby too. I attended UCLA and seen many Korean girls who think they are a catch.. And it shows from their attitude that they are better than you. I would never date a Korean American girl period.,they are downright conceited and I give them no respect at all... And for the gangster wannabes, I have nothing to say but an absolute disgrace to Korean Americans in the U.S. |
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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: i definitely agree with all of you.. |
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| kyopo4life wrote: |
| kyopos in L.A are downright the worst scums in this earth. I really get angry when I see the gangster wannabes and the Korean American girls. The girls here think they are gongjus=princesses and hella snobby too. I attended UCLA and seen many Korean girls who think they are a catch.. And it shows from their attitude that they are better than you. I would never date a Korean American girl period.,they are downright conceited and I give them no respect at all... And for the gangster wannabes, I have nothing to say but an absolute disgrace to Korean Americans in the U.S. |
North campus or south campus? |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: Re: i definitely agree with all of you.. |
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| kyopo4life wrote: |
| kyopos in L.A are downright the worst scums in this earth. I really get angry when I see the gangster wannabes and the Korean American girls. The girls here think they are gongjus=princesses and hella snobby too. I attended UCLA and seen many Korean girls who think they are a catch.. And it shows from their attitude that they are better than you. I would never date a Korean American girl period.,they are downright conceited and I give them no respect at all... And for the gangster wannabes, I have nothing to say but an absolute disgrace to Korean Americans in the U.S. |
I understand hating gangster wannabes and snobby, conceited princesses, but I hate people like that from any race. To say that Kyopos in L.A. are downright scums of the earth is pretty harsh. |
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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Kyopo4life isn't real, he's a troll. |
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.watermelon.
Joined: 12 Jan 2009
Location: California
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: i definitely agree with all of you.. |
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| Oreovictim wrote: |
| kyopo4life wrote: |
| kyopos in L.A are downright the worst scums in this earth. I really get angry when I see the gangster wannabes and the Korean American girls. The girls here think they are gongjus=princesses and hella snobby too. I attended UCLA and seen many Korean girls who think they are a catch.. And it shows from their attitude that they are better than you. I would never date a Korean American girl period.,they are downright conceited and I give them no respect at all... And for the gangster wannabes, I have nothing to say but an absolute disgrace to Korean Americans in the U.S. |
I understand hating gangster wannabes and snobby, conceited princesses, but I hate people like that from any race. To say that Kyopos in L.A. are downright scums of the earth is pretty harsh. |
i second that. |
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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| The segregation definitely adds to the problem, but I've always been under the impression that there are a lot of areas in NYC where middle class white kids just starting out live side-by-side more impoverished people (I'm thinking of Inwood, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where gentrification is becoming a social problem). Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't know of any areas like that in L.A. |
I think Silver Lake, Echo Park, Downtown L.A., and even Palms to name a few are all areas that are being gentrified. Mexican families are being priced out of the neighborhoods as opposed to black families in NYC.
Usually students and young people get the gentrification ball rolling, and as soon as they build a Starbucks the yuppy families buy up all the brownstones. By then it isn't so dicey, but it's still diverse. Inwood and West Harlem are like this, still affordable and on the rise with students and some trail-blazing white familes, but more affluent black homeowners are common in those places so it isn't met with AS much resistance. Brooklyn on the other hand is either as posh as Chelsea at this point, or destitute. Total extremes. |
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Mrs.Lee
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
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they act a little ghetto, even if they aren't
this mostly applies to the men |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| There's definitely some truth to this thread...but i've also met some asshole Canadian gyopo's too...and they're EVERYWHERE. It's either a gyopo from California or Canada. What's up with that?! |
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Yaya
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| Mrs.Lee wrote: |
they act a little ghetto, even if they aren't
this mostly applies to the men |
A LITTLE? Geez, you don't know gyopos. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| You mean like how the country has implemented immigration policies that treat us all like disease-carrying, drug-using pedophillic womanizers, and the state-run major media outlets reinforce that stereotype on a regular basis? |
I don't need state-run major media outlets to reinforce this stereotype. Everytime I read Dave's it happens.  |
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MissSeoul
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Somewhere in America
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: i definitely agree with all of you.. |
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| kyopo4life wrote: |
| kyopos in L.A are downright the worst scums in this earth. I really get angry when I see the gangster wannabes and the Korean American girls. The girls here think they are gongjus=princesses and hella snobby too. I attended UCLA and seen many Korean girls who think they are a catch.. And it shows from their attitude that they are better than you. I would never date a Korean American girl period.,they are downright conceited and I give them no respect at all... And for the gangster wannabes, I have nothing to say but an absolute disgrace to Korean Americans in the U.S. |
I understand hating gangster wannabes and snobby, conceited princesses, but I hate people like that from any race. To say that Kyopos in L.A. are downright scums of the earth is pretty harsh. |
Personally I don't know any korean who live in L.A/California.
I think Korean in Texas are very good group of Korean. We don't have gangsters here and we don't have conflict with Black/Mexican community.
We have Wendy Lee who was wife of retired 3 term U.S Senator Phill Gramm and we have golfer Anthony Kim in Dallas and golfer K.J Choi in Houston.
Texan know korean are hard workers and they respect us. |
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Blockhead confidence
Joined: 02 Apr 2008
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The gyopos who blister my paint are sitting pretty in Azerbaijan.
Not just a few rotten apples or even an apple tree. It's a whole damn rotten apple orchard, and more douches than a turkey-baster factory. |
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