Her reaction when we told her we were American? "Oh, you mean where Jerry Springer is?"
Jerry Springer.
This, friends, is the television our country "exports" to other First-World nations. What's worse, they actually take it seriously.
After bursting her bubble by explaining to her that Jerry Springer is, in reality, not something that anyone with an IQ of over 70 considers legitimate TV, we revealed that our family lives in the suburbs of Atlanta.
I can only imagine, had this conversation happened today, what kind of impression the Aussies would have of the "typical Atlantan", based on the quality of television currently being produced about the area. By these shows, one can only deduce that Atlanta is divided into two sub-populations:
- "Bad Girls' Club Atlanta", "Big Rich Atlanta", "Real Housewives", that stupid, short-lived "Running Russell Simmons"...by the looks of these shows, our city seems to be 70% Black, spoiled, over-dressed, loud, demanding women who all marry professional athletes or Def Jam music executives, drive Pimped-out cars, and live in gated communities in Buckhead (much to the dismay of their white neighbors, no doubt).
- "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo"...the remaining 30% must be these idiotic, overweight, Redneck testaments to inbreeding.
My suspicions were confirmed a few weeks ago when our family went skiing in Park City, Utah (our eventual forever home, God willing). Whenever we struck up conversations with other skiers about where we live, the consensus about Atlanta was that it was an exclusively Black city (sort of like saying we were from Detroit). One couple actually called it "Blacklanta".
It's very disturbing to read the statistics about Atlanta at the SBPDL blog, but validating as well.
Atlanta is being Detroit-ed. Regardless of what popular TV wants us to think. There seems to be the underlying message that these upper-middle-class Blacks have taken over the city and made it "urban cool", saving it from the likes of the backwards, white, trailer trash Honey Boo Boo hicks (and that poor mother, who looks like a giant thumb).
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ReplyDeleteHi, I just came over from SBPDL, and read this post and the previous.
Wow.
I'd like to offer my former Kiwi, soon to be Australian mid thirty's perspective, if I may. As a child in the '80s all the other primary school kids were into Star Wars. I did think that was cool, only Dukes of Hazzard was waaay cooler, because it was real-life.
Hot-lanta seemed like some sort of magical Big Smoke metropolis where the boys only went on MAJOR probation breaking business.
But then the only tv I consume now is what I'm forced to see/overhear in the work canteen (or the Dukes of Hazzard dvds I bought from the Big Smoke 120kms [75mile?] away LoL).
I haven't been here long enough to ascertain the depth of depravity Aussie kids have been soaked in. I can say that I did 15 000+ kilometers of touring, looking for a 'white' town I could settle and work/exist in. (-It no longer exists, EVERYWHERE [that there is work] has been muliculted).
The young Aussies, say late teens and early twenties, many seemed to know that something was wrong. They couldn't quite put their finger on it, much less articulate it -but something's amiss.
Without knowing how you advertised it's hard to pick where the girl is coming from. Education-wise it seem to vary from, say, my mates little girls going to a private Catholic school (in Melbourne, thank God they've moved to do that) to what you encountered.
In closing, all I can say is you're better talking to an Aussie for that job than her New Zealand cousin.
Read a few of your comments on other blogs, felt I needed to come here to tell you just how much of an abhorrent person you are for trying to bring up your children to be just like you. Your daughters have a monster for a parent, and I hope they figure that out for themselves before you break them completely. Barring that, I hope they run into another Jamie Urton and your bigoted ways die out, either with you, or them.
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DeleteSo, Logan, you felt you needed to tell Fled what an abhorrent person she is by wishing her daughters be killed? What a non-abhorrent person you must be.
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