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Originally Posted by AliP
That is soo funny! Have you seen the MTV special "Real Life - I'm a New Jersey Shore Girl" or something like that?? That's totally how I pictured girls and from New Jersey! I totally picture guys from New Jersey as always having dark hair with wife beater tank tops on and lots of jewelry. Have you seen the the other MTV special where the Italian guy and girl are planning their wedding - and he freaks out when the limo driver is late and screams in the phone - "I'm going to hunt you down and rip your stomach out!" or something like that. I was like people in New Jersey are nutsz!! LOL!
Yeah, but my perception of New Jersey is definitely big hair ladies, very thick accents, very into their ethnicity (if that makes sense) It's like a whole different world out here. For instance, people out here do not care what your ethnic background is. In fact, people don't even know what theirs is. Then when you go back East - people's lives just revolve around whether they are Italian, Polish, Greek etc. Just very different out west.
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Yes and I shook my head in despair. Those? were girls from North Jersey
That's another thing about this state. North Jersey and South Jersey have their similarities but they also have their differences as I think Lisa can attest to as well. Most of the farm land is way down south and the industrial is partly south (around the city) but mainly central and northern New Jersey (around NYC). You can definately tell a North Jersey girl from a South Jersey girl (accents aside). The place they filmed I'm A Jersey Shore Girl AND the bride/groom fighting was in Northern NJ. Same for Room Raiders and most of the Made shows (MTV brings their crews in from NYC and they film mainly up north). I always think they find the biggest morons from the state and put them on television and then people think, "WTF?!?." Not everyone in North Jersey is like that but sadly, some people are. South Jersey certainly has their fill of odd people as well
We have snobs, rednecks (they're called pineys because they live near the Pine Barrens), total hicks, farmers (Vineland) yuppies (Cherry Hill), workaholics, alcoholics, drug addicts (Camden), etc.
In New Jersey people are very Jewish and very Italian (there are other nationalities here as well but as far as Italians and Jews are concerned, we're it
) and yes, everyone is incredibly proud to throw it around. I think it's our location. Most people that live here have come from a city at one point or another where back years ago after emmigrating here, people seperated into their groups in the big cities and that's just the way it was. Today you still see the same activity in the city but many suburban communities have become melting pots. You're right though...it's a HUGE North East thing