Jennifer Lopez gives her hot take: You have to be born to be in New York to be a New Yorker. Everybody wants to claim our city but you have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker.
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Jennifer Lopez gives her hot take: You have to be born to be in New York to be a New Yorker. Everybody wants to claim our city but you have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker.
Posted by Upstairs_Cup9831
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Kerry Washington and Julia Fox agree
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Are other places like this? I moved to Seattle fifteen years ago, and I call myself a Seattleite.
Eh, itās not like I need permission.
Jlo anti-immigration confirmed
New York people love to fellate themselves to the idea that somehow theyāre better than everyone else when the entire city was constructed on the backs of non-native immigrants. Shit is beyond stupid.
If Iām traveling abroad I say where Iāve lived the last decade, not where I was born 30+ years ago and itās not out of some desire to look cool since both places have roughly equal reputations.
Oh itās Jenny from the block
I wish people from New York who constantly purity test who is and isnt a “New Yorker” could see how irritating they are to everyone else.
Actually that goes for everyone from anywhere who does this kind of thing tbh. Its weird and kinda hostile, where you’re from shouldnt be such an aggressively gatekept part of your personality āšæš©·
Edit to clarify: As I said below
“I’ll edit to clarify. I wrote too fast I meant mainland American cities. Obviously the dynamics of claiming to be from various other places are different and more complex.”
thinking about that time she went to her old house and the man living there though she was trespassing cause he didn’t know who tf she was š
this lady also hasn’t been a New Yorker for a while so….
Subway takes was better before celebrities came on
so by her own logic sheās not a real puerto rican šāāļø
āWhat did I just say?ā
āOur whole government!ā
Okay she kinda did her big one here lol. And I love that she advocates for her child and sisterās child.
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the way he immediately full body cringes is taking me out š
Sucks to be Mayor Mamdani
Chicagoans are the same way lol The lowkey test is they ask what middle scholl you went to šš
I find the native vs. transplant ādebateā for any city so incredibly tiring. If youāre from a major city (NYC no less) I really donāt think you have any right to be upset at people moving there. It became a major city for a reason
This strikes me wrong if you think about it from an immigration perspective. A lot of people are proud to call themselves Americans once getting citizenship, and I would not feel like taking that pride away from them because they were not born here. I do not like that take.
Edit: fixed typo
By that logic, Mamdani is not a New Yorker.
I love having been born and raised in New York but it’s not that deep. Knowing subway takes I don’t think jlo is being hateful (although I’m usually not a fan of her) but the people arguing in the comments definitely are
Everyone wants to gatekeep nyc.
āYou take on characteristics of New Yorkers but thatās not the sameā thatās literally what children do too when they grow up in an area
Gatekeeping what makes a New Yorker when she has mostly lived in LA for 35 years.
in fact, only people born in manhattan are new yorkers!!š¤¦š½āāļø
At least itās actually a hot take
A city built on the back of immigrants and somehow youāre not a New Yorker if youāre not born there.
Make it make sense lmao
I mean…it is called subway takes for a reason!!!
with that said… in about 4 years or so, I would have lived longer in LA than I did my hometown/home country. And when people ask me if I’m from LA, I still dont say I’m an Angeleno or I am from here. So i guess i get her
I think thereās a difference between being a New Yorker and culturally understanding New York City. I think what she and many people from the city are speaking about has more to do with culture and a way of being. Understanding that thereās cultural differences in every place in every part of the world that make us all unique.
Thereās a running joke where Iām from (Minneapolis/Minnesota) of someone being āone of usā and this idea you have to earn this badge of honor. Itās definitely not a thing thatās taken as serious as in NYC and is generally just a joke but I do think this is a thing everywhere in one way or another.
You know growing up a military brat wasn’t always the most fun with needing new friends about every two years but I really appreciate that I never could develop that weirdly intense regional tribalism that people do.
Look, as a New Yorker, I donāt care if you claim it or notā¦ just get outta the way.