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Is anyone else sick of all the French that have moved into Brooklyn?
I remember when my neighborhood was mixed. White people, Black people, Hispanic people, and Han people, even some Thai and Indian. Now it's all rich transplants and FRENCH here in Carroll Gardens. They are the worst. They litter, they yell at local business tellers (maybe it's her first job you dingbat!) and they take up the whole sidewalk with their strollers that their kids aren't even in! I'm born and raised in this neighborhood and I am sick of it! Is anyone else?
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- LJLv 75 years ago
I live in Park Slope, which is fairly close to Carroll Gardens. I know Carroll Gardens really well as I've been walking around that neighborhood for 35 years. In fact, I was walking around that neighborhood just today! (Down Court Street to 3rd Street and across the 3rd Street Bridge to Park Slope.)
Yes, there has recently been an influx of French families. They are drawn to the neighborhood because of the French/English dual language program at PS 58. But they are a tiny fraction of the overall population of the neighborhood and I haven't noticed them to stand out in any way.
What you are describing is your own bigotry. Sometimes people don't see their ideas as bigoted if they are talking about a group that hasn't commonly experienced discrimination. But it's still bigotry to assign a behavior to an entire group based in the observed actions of a few people.
If someone of your own group behaved in the way you described you'd chalk it up to that one person being a jerk. But in this case, you view the behavior as exemplifying an entire group.
It's still bigotry.
