Pacific Palisades: nothing like the founder wished

Did you know that the people in the Pacific Palisades are 89% white? No, diversity of skin color does not exist there in any significant way, at least not darker shades of skin tone. Traveling around the area gives me the creeps. Why? The white people there have secluded themselves from people different from them in skin color and culture.

The hypocrisy lies in the high percentage of Democrats and Liberals in the area. Democrats and Liberals claim to be the the party of minorities and people of color. But they sure don't want to live near those people. They may give lip service to thinking multicultural and being politically correct, but what they say and what they do are two very different and opposite things.

Final twist. Charles Holmes Scott founded Pacific Palisades in 1922 as a Chautauqua community for spiritual, philosophical and artistic people. I doubt his vision was compatible with the types of westsider Type-A people that live there today.

The Overuse of "Hipster"

Writers of restaurant and bar reviews excessively rely on the adjective "hipster" to describe eating and drinking establishments, especially in Los Angeles. Hipster, as described in Wikipedia, reads "young, recently-settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture." I would add that these people are simply pursuing trends in alternative fashions and lifestyle. I harbor no criticism of hipsters. Disdain describes my feeling towards the lowly scene writers who use the word "hipster" as a crutch to label the environment in restaurants and clubs. My suggestion: use the breadth of the English language to describe these places instead of that trite adjective.