White Spots - Paris
March 24, 2008 by clander
This is a new feature where we try to find the locations around the world that are beloved and frequented by white people.
This new feature examines the all of the places or “spots” around the world where white people like to be and be seen. It can provide valuable information about locations in your city or the cities you plan to visit where you can observe, meet, and learn valuable information about white people.
The Place:
Les Puces de Paris Saint Ouen a.k.a The Paris Flea Markets
Location:
rue des Rosier and surrounding (map)
Saint Ouen, France 93400
The Paris flea market contains many authentic treasures from Europe’s past, including furniture, art, and various knickknacks. Though many white people could acquire these products through the internet, by purchasing it at the Paris flea market they are able to tell their friends “Oh, I found that at the Paris flea market. Have you been? It’s life changing, I swear I wish I could move to Paris.”
“I think one of the greatest regrets of my life is that I was at the Paris flea market and there was this beautiful table/chair/painting/cup/sword, and I thought that I would find another one like it back home. Well, ten years later and I still haven’t found it. Quel Dommage.”
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If there is a “white spot” in your town and you’d like to share it with the world, or just ruin it by having more white people go there. Please send an email with the name, location, reason why white people like it, a proper thing to say about it and a photo. Put “White Spots - <your city name>” as the title. If selected, we will put up a a shout out and a link to the site of your choice.
http://mantivity.blogspot.com
Paris, Smarish, White folks really love the Greek Island of MYKONOS! It’s hard to get to, really outrageously expensive, nicest in April and October but most chances to go are in July and August. Oh and extra points for being near some of the navels of the ancient (white) world Delos and Athens…so you can be a culture- vulture as well as an exotic sybarite. MOre reasons to love it? TOns of gays! Rare flora! Nude beaches! Sunburns! Weird drinks (ouzo, anyone?), Lots of Northern Europeans getting drunk and tan. Weird foods(octapus anyone?)….and the most sought after flip flops on the planet….hand made leather ones that will last a lifetime, and get a lifetime of chic chat mileage back in the Hamptons. And…all that exoticism and history is COMPLETLY SAFE. NO RISK, except to your budget….and that’s good for chic chat too!! And if you are really really lucky you can rent my villa there!
McCain hates Mykonos.
will this website turn into an orgy of spam/electioneering?
Stay tuned until the next post white people…
Philadelphia is not going to make the list. Check out why.
http://www.the2-1-5.blogspot.com/
quit spamming and get bent. nobody wants to read your tangentially related bullshit.
I resent your relating to my tangential bullshit tangentially.
I just got back from Paris and let me tell you. I feel white, fat, mal- nourished and uneducated. But other than that it was “Impeccable!” OO la la, Vive la France!
I love Paris in the spring BUT ….I was there for a week’s visit and stayed in a hostel . Learned to use the Metro quickly. It is soo NYC. Went to the Louvre and Quay D’Orsay and found my High School French ( learned over20 years’s ago) kicked in just fine thought I never had a chance to try it out before. The trip veered off course for me when, as I was taking the Metro to the Flea Market ,I found myself in a NYC crowded subway moment. I reached the exit, trotted up stairs and headed in high anticipation ,to the market which beconed like and lighthouse from a stormy sea. My co traveler who was behind me, pointed out that my backpack was wide open.
Trouble wacked me upside my head. My wallet and passport were gone. Then I really had to dredge up my ancient French.. Found myself in the Arab quarter. My greying hair, freckled skin and casual attire must have stood out . Turns out it was Easter Weekend and the American Embassy was closed for 3 days. My co travelers had to return home, so Iwas left in Paris holed up with little cash. in a garret until I could get a new temporary passport.
I was able to buy a sixpack and learned airport patience…
i mark this day as the day this website starts to suck!
-white person #9
White people do love their knick-knacks.
You can’t beat Paris when it comes to travel bragging rights!
http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com
Elite bragging rights for traveling to Paris have been eroded by frequent flyer miles, tour packages and every other company that inundates the place with mid-level employess sent there on business.
Superiority may be restored with a vengeance by pinpointing exactly what you saw in the City of Light that was distinct from what was seen by the-less-than-extraordinary white people you are holding hostage to your insufferable account at a dinner party.
“When you were in Paris, Mike, did you happen to get to the Les Puces de Paris Saint Ouen…Oh, I forgot, you don’t speak French. Loosely translated that means the Paris Flea Markets…What do yo mean “no,” Mike. You mean to tell me you flew all the way to Paris and missed the Flea Markets! Well, Mike you missed the best part of the city. Dammit, Mike you missed everything. If you missed the flea markets, you might as well have stayed home and watched reruns of Seinfeld.
“Come let us reason together,” you idiot. It’s not “the Les Puces de Paris Saint Ouen.” Les MEANS the. So it’s just “Les Puces…”
You are too stupid to live.
Mr. Whitey. Doubtlessly you enjoy stalking the halls of the Page Museum in Los Angeles, calling out people for saying “The La Brea Tar Pits” with taunts of “you idiot, “La” means “The” and “Brea” means “Tar” so what your dumb ass is really saying is: “The The Tar Tar Pits.”
Are all Americans (sniff) such insufferable white pedants as yourself?
May you be thrown as a living sacrifice into the La Brea Tar Pits and become fossilized. (Just kidding, old sport).
I too love to correct idiots who try to talk. Will everyone please shut up? Thank you, merci, domo, hsieh hsieh, grazie, danke, tak, blah blah blah.
Jeremy: The first multilingual child to appear on this blog Enfant terrible.
You may have noticed that you just reinforced the joke at your expense. You are too pretentious to keep living.
Reinforcing the joke at our own expense is called posting.
Hmm… not as entertaining as your usual posts.
The masses want your comedical satire, not a travel channel special!
Paris is full of Queers….
Wanna Know What They Like????
Stuff Queer People Like
http://stuffqueerpeoplelike.wordpress.com
I thinks this falls under the “American” not “white” people category.
I second that. I feel like, as with the football (soccer) post, there should be a “Europeans not included” disclaimer.
One of the main contentions of the is website seems to be that pretentious Americans tend to put Europe on a pedestal above other parts of the West (especially the U.S.). Overall, I think that American aristocrats do have an inflated opinion of Europe. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to sell them on concepts like “German Engineering” (how’s that 3 year old Volkswagon running these days ;).
One irony (yeah, I know ;), though, is occasionally these discussions do illustrate facets of Western culture where Americans and Europeans really _are_ different!
In Europe there are less blacks, mexicans and otherwise fat people. Who wouldn’t want to travel there for those reasons alone? Get real.
blacks, mexicans and fat people are all better in bed than the etiolated individuals who plague this website…
Paris is wonderfully inside-out, to American eyes. You can walk around the nice parts. The slums are way out in the ‘burbs.
oh, don’t turn it all commercial and shit. you’re selling out.
If Prague is the “new Paris”, what’s the “new Prague”?
If you can’t afford to go to Paris, how about seeing “Paris, Texas” at the new art-house cinema in Omaha?
I like the Google ads this attracts: “White Spots on Throat”, “White Tongue Coating?”, etc.
Najaf is the new prague.
oh my GOD. this is so funny.
i spent a summer ‘backpacking’ around Europe with a Eurail pass + youth hostel card. this was before the EU.
when i came back to the states, i used to go on and on about:
*seeing Vaclav Havel at an art exhibit in Prague
*drinking wine by candlelight, with a friend on his houseboat, on the Seine
*watching performance artists rapel off of the side of an old, bombed out building in East Berlin. then going downstairs to the bar to drink + listen to jazz.
*climbing down the stairs on Ios, drunk off our asses in the wee hours of the morning.
etc, etc.
Not to criticize, but you could literally substitute all the names of different places, artists, liqeurs, cheeses, geographical location, etc. and end up with the same story as any number of other white people.
Except for the rappelling, that’s cool and weird and moderately eastern-Europe. So just mention that next time.
But that’s Michelle’s point, you idjit. That’s why she finds this site amusing, because it hits close to home (and also, she has a sense of humor about herself).
Actually some of the slums in Paris attend the Flea Market with great regularity.
There’s a section set quite a bit off from the white folks Paris flea market that is best characterized as a thieves market.
Close enough so that you can see down into it, but you really wouldn’t want to go in.
Unless you are a very stupid white person.
Next you should do Stuff Parisians like: Calling the Muslims who burn cars in southern france every night “youths.” It is Jihad people.
Actually, they rarely articulate any kind of religious bent. It’s young unemployed teenagers and young adults who are stuck in giant, decaying housing projects.
Wrong assessments breed wrong responses, which do not bring solutions.
Spot-on.
Paris is a HUGE upper-middle class, white, touristy mega destination. Probably higher than London.
Foreign, yet safe.
Exposure to the French language is considered de rigueur for social climbing in the upper rungs.
And of course the Lycee Francais kiddie schools are most highly prized by social climbers…
I don’t know if i agree with the formula change. This post is too obscure for me
Have you done an entry on Spring Break? Kind of ties in with this…white people (especially young rich white college kids) love spring break.
Guess I’m not white. I’ve been to Paris, accompanied by my Chicana classmate, and we did not visit this flea market. We did the touristy stuff, like visiting Jim Morrison’s grave, that the right kind of white people would probably look down on.
I think the right kind of white people might actually approve…your classmate was Chicana after all…
Yes, and “antiques roadshow” may be the most White show on TV. Only Whites have family heirlooms and the desire to pass them on to keep White culture going.
Too bad so many White punks these days don’t value passing on their genes similarly anymore.
Buying antiques is a disaster on ebay, its very risky buying non-standardised products without seeing them first hand.
White people actually do have to go to Paris to buy these things ( or at least down to their nearest auction house).
Nice to see google has actually managed to provide some appropriate ads for the site - ‘Asian girl’s for dating’ that has whitey all over it.
Berkeley Swap Meet
“Berkeley Swap meet”
No way. The Berkeley Bowl is a million times whiter a white spot.
Yes! The Berkeley Bowl has plenty of fresh fruit, organic pork, and hippie wanna-bes.
How about anywhere in Scottsdale, Arizona. Pick a place.
Scottsdale- Home of the worlds largest poplulation of vanity license plates
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I don’t really understand why your recent posts have begun using SO many track-back posts to earlier entries. It gets redundant.
It shows the interconnectivity, dumb ass. We get to see how all of this ties together. You are a f**king moron.
Jose, you really need to get a life, get high or get laid or all of the above.
Paris is perfect because they put the trash in the ‘burbs (you know, the place where they burn cars every few months and riot). By keeping the trash in the ‘burbs, the French keep crime and slime down in the core of Paris and thus the city looks like a film set. If America had done this, its cities would still be crime-free and liveable, rather than populated by gang-bangers, six-pack willies and an impoverished third world migrant population wandering around in a daze like extras from a zombie movie.
That’s why whites like ‘Paris in the spingtime’.
Just read the comments here (esp. the second page) …. right smack dab in an old hood in DC. http://www.columbiaheightsnews.org/News/News-Front/REI-Interested-In-DC-USA.html
“Quel Dommage.”
VERY White People!
Nobody in the US, outside Louisiana, ever says “quel” anything. This post is tres Canadien.
Whitey, you’re thinking about the wrong kind of white people…you need to be thinking boarding school in Switzerland francophone.
I want to pronounce it “Qwell dummadge”
gotta love the feeling of running outta ideas
and scrambling to come up with something
well
i bet theres no flea markets in the hood
so u nailed this one on the head.
good job
This post is weak. Up to now, this blog has addressed many of the things rich white people get into. It has mysteriously left out some real obvious things like sailing, but on the other hand has done well to cover a lot of white stereotypes, all based on a basic black-white stereotype that all white people have lots of money, a stereotype that unfortunately holds no water once you meet white people beyond the exurbs. The main flaw with this post is that rich white Americans refuse to go to anywhere in Europe anymore, much less France, which was condemned by the media anti-American. White people stopped going decades ago. Why spend weeks in a big city that forces you to walk endlessly down confusing streets populated with unfriendly whites, blacks, muslims and other threatening people who are not there to serve. This is why most wealthy white Americans (or middle class people with charge cards) go to tropical resorts where you don’t have to go anywhere but the bar, the beach and restaurants that serve predictable food. Resorts also are staffed by consistently well-scrubbed, well-trained, friendly locals, many of which can direct you to some weed. Anyone who wants the idea of Europe can go to the Caymans. I think this post may speak to wealthy white Canadians, who are more connected to France through ancestry.
You are such a jackass that it’s hard to resist calling you a super prick. You obviously have no comprehension skills whatsoever, or you would know that you are absolutely talking about the Wrong Kind of White People. The RIGHT kind of whites are most definitely still going to Paris.
Jose, take a deep breath. Count to ten. Close your eyes. Take a minute to sit down. Picture pleasant scenes. Slow your breathing down. There you go. Ready to read? Ok, the authors of this blog lump all whites into a homogeneous whole. They make no distinction between types of white people. Clearly, Jose, you do. Furthermore, mister comprehension guy, where in this article or any post on this blog did you read anything about “right kind of white people”? Now, I will not say what nationality or race I am, I am just going by what I see when I travel to European cities. I have been traveling to Europe for twenty years and each time I’m in a European capital, I see fewer and fewer Americans. When I am stateside I seem to notice that most American people with money to take expensive holidays talk about their travels to warm, tropical places. Cruises seem to be a favorite way to go. Speaking of vacations, I suggest you get on the next flight to Kingston, check into an “all-inclusive” and ask the bartender to score you a “1/4″. Get a grip! PS: get laid.
God that was tedious…
Dammit!! I’m never the Frist person to make a comment!
I know exactly how you feel, Latchkey Man. I’m always a day late and a dollar short.
My inlaws have just left for a three month sojourn to Paris.
‘nuf said.
Europe is now positively threatening if you have an American accent. Not only do the white locals bristle when they hear an American accent, but most European cities are now festering with angry muslim youth: and they definitely don’t dig perky Americans on holiday. No, today’s Europe will make most Americans feel very uncomfortable.
“No, today’s Europe will make most Americans feel very uncomfortable.”
Hmmm… was this written by a white person whose international travel has pretty much been limited to Europe?
Most Americans are associated with the Israel/US axis, that’s the reason. Most Europeans and the world at large, China too, see the US as a completely israelified nation.
the average european dislikes the average american (and their accent) not because of politics and religion but because of ignorant, uniformed, obnoxious tourists who talk too loudly, who know nothing of the country they’re visiting and who pay for something with euros and expect to receive american change in return. it’s the complete and unapologetic lack of knowledge about anything outside the continental usa that so aggravates the rest of the world.
fuck europeans. when was the last time they developed anything mildly innovative?
what about nutella asshole?
So what cities do non-white people like to visit, then? I’m sure only white people could enjoy Paris.
This site was mildly amusing for awhile. That time has passed.