The Jennifer purse by Tom Ford at Neiman Marcus, the $38,100 Swiss is croc leather. |
I do know, based on my frequent
travels that most Europeans do not engage in acts of racism; they are elitist
socialists embracing multiculturalism to the point of self-destruction.
EU has opened its borders
to people from 27 different countries and to a massive exodus from North Africa
and the Middle East. They have opened the floodgates of socialist welfare and
nationalized medicine to anybody who set foot in Europe, no questions asked,
allowing them to set up ghettoes of the countries they’ve fled.
Elitist Europeans do
consider themselves superior educationally to Americans and see us as tennis
shoe wearing loud idiots who do not understand the fashionable refinement of
squeezing our feet in shoes that were only meant for torture and of starving
ourselves because food is too expensive to consume. Europeans consider fatness a
sign of stupidity and laziness.
The French, dressed in
their Sunday best, sip wine and smoke at street side cafes, watching sneaker
wearing American tourists with contempt, jealous that they cannot afford to be
tourists in America as frequently as Americans are tourists in France.
Most boutiques, including
high-end ones, allow customers in by appointment only or are buzzed in if they
are thin enough and fashionably dressed enough. Anybody size 8 or larger cannot
find clothes in their shops anyway and are considered fat.
I saw a shop in northern Italy
dedicated to large women called “La Grassa” (The Fat). It was remarkably crass
since most northern Italian women were petite, size 0-4, and looked like they’ve
been poured into their black pants, walking fast in stilettoes among cobbled
stones.
There is a certain look
that a customer in an expensive shop must have, gaunt, skeletal, pale, and
dressed in the most expensive clothes money can buy or deliberate rags if
he/she is a celebrity. Shopkeepers are paid in commission and they know how to
profile and pamper a prospective buyer.
Boutiques often do not
allow shoppers to try on clothes since they are afraid the items might be
soiled by a person’s body odor. Likewise, touching a very expensive purse would
be out of the question for most customers, to protect it from damage. Race does not play a role. Owners know how to
appease and please even the most spoiled and demanding among the very rich.
Europeans are very
protective of their personal possessions. For example, Germans would be
offended and shocked if a person would ask to borrow their clothes or jewelry
to wear for a special occasion. That is a cultural faux pas.
Shop owners and their
employees are generally not very patient, courteous, and polite as many sales
associates are in the U.S. They do not allow customers ample time to choose
items for a purchase. They will often walk away if an American takes more than
a few minutes to decide if they will buy something or not.
Furthermore, sales people assume
Americans do not speak the language of that country, and make unkind judgmental
comments about customers, brazenly in front of them, to nearby colleagues. They
do it because they think Americans ignorant and monolingual. I have questioned crude
remarks before, if I happened to speak that language, to let them know that it
was inappropriate to take advantage of someone who may or may not understand.
European mass consumerism
has never risen to the level that it has in the U.S. Sales happen only two
times a year in a country like Germany and are highly regulated by the government.
They do not want shops offering a sale to have an unfair competition over other
shops that do not.
I cannot remember how many times my mother and I
were profiled in shops in this country in the 80s when there were few
foreigners in the town where we lived. We were followed closely as if we were
criminals ready to pounce on their merchandise, while natives were actually
stealing from them. One small shop owner actually told us to leave because he
did not want our business. It was his business, it was his choice, and I never
thought him to be racist or discriminatory in any way. There were plenty other
places where we could spend our money.
Abercrombie and Fitch profiles, they want their clothes on “skinny people who are sexy.” They don’t make larger sizes because they don’t want their clothes on fat people. It is their choice. http://fox4kc.com/2013/05/10/abercrombie-fitch-fat-ugly-people-shouldnt-buy-our-clothes/
Clubs of all sorts profile.
They have the right to choose who they admit to their membership roster. HOAs
profile and choose and pick who they allow to purchase an apartment in their
co-ops, even among the very rich. There is a certain pedigree required.
To see profiling in
action, walk into a high-end department store in this country, and you will
experience the same treatment. And it has nothing to do with race. The women
are paid salaries and commissions and have learned to profile your body size,
the clothes you wear, the purse you carry, the shoes, the hair cut, the makeup,
the jewelry, and, based on such profiling, you may find yourself totally
ignored, looked at with contempt, or you may be lavished with fawning attention.
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