I was in Paris
(cough) for the past week and took the picture below, then today I see that
France is basically obsessed with Brooklyn:
Many Parisians, “trendy” is synonymous with New York, especially
Brooklyn, especially Williamsburg, which they treat as both a
geographical area (which it is) and a Wes-Anderson-meets-Woody-Allen
fever dream (which ignores the long history of the borough as a home to
working-class people and minorities, but hey, whatever). Brooklyn, for
them, can be reduced to a specific style that's little more that a
string of signifiers—just like how in Americans' heads, "Paris" means a
guy in a beret and a striped shirt riding a bicycle with a basket of
baguettes in the front.
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