At DC privates - Why are VA parents considered "inferior"?

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Anonymous wrote:The police academy director , who is Chinese American, was asked to not sign HIS NAME using Chinese characters. This is in NORTHERN Virginia. This wouldn’t have happened in DC. The xenophobia is so Old Dixie 1950s.

“A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates.

Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard complained that the academy director, Maj. Wilson Lee, used Chinese characters to sign the certificates that graduates receive when they complete training at the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy.”

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-signatures-virginia-graduation-certificate-03069737acd18a56dd281862645b0b0a

I'm Asian American and don't think it's cool that he's signing his name in Chinese, especially as a public official.

Stupid to punish the graduates for that though.

You must be an Asian American who lives in VA. 🙄

DC Asians would be free to sign their Chinese name using Chinese characters, and no one would bat an eye. That’s what happens in sophisticated, world capital cities with embassies, the IMF, World Bank, State Department, universities with students from all over the world, etc. At least in official capacities, we’re not threatened by other peoples’ cultures. However, individual DC residents may be just as xenophobic and culturally backwards as some VA residents.

That’s comical. No one at the IMF, World Bank, or State Department would sign their names using characters from non-working languages on any official documents. My spouse works at the World Bank. We have friends at the Fund. These are international organizations where documents may be in any of the 6 official working languages. However, a Chinese person working in French would not sign off in Chinese. Nor would a Russian working in English sign off in Russian.

I work at the State Department and anyone signing off on anything official using non-English characters would be reprimanded, laughed out of the building or both. Signatures on official documents are there to ensure a chain of accountability, and anyone signing in a language that was not universally used within the organization, that would defeat that purpose.

DC Asians are free to sign their names in whatever language they want. But not in lieu of English on any official government documents.

Lol—you’ve typed a lot of nothing. We’re talking about a police training academy in VA. This would be a non-issue at a police training academy in DC…because it just isn’t a big deal. Now, the Herndon Police Department has to find another training facility. All that fuss and what did it get her?!?

Btw, your Sisyphean defense of the stupid stance taken by the Herndon police chief proves the OPs point. You’re fighting yet another lost cause, Dixie. That’s one of the reasons why some/many/most educated DC residents look down on people who choose to reside in VA. It’s the home of a sitting SCt justice who flew an upside down American flag outside his home. And another miserable “justice” who is married to a woman who tried to assist in the overthrow of the federal government (“release the Kraken”). Please throw the entire state away!

NP. This is not even a remotely true statement, just like your IMF/WB/State comment. You’re just a classless snob and projecting it onto others. With not enough hobbies or interests to keep your mind occupied so you fixate on what jurisdiction people live in (and making up facts on the internet). Educated DC residents have too many more important things to care about.

Sticks and stones.

It’s true for me and others, so that would fall under “some/many/most.” I can have whatever opinion I want about people who choose to live in the former capital of the treasonous confederacy (with many roads, schools, and institutions named after traitors); and elected a governor who is trying to eliminate a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own body. You don’t have to like it.

P.S. Fixate? Lol! I rarely think about or grace VA with my presence. I’m commenting because the OP asked a valid question.

Based on the poor reasoning underpinning this statement, I’m pretty sure you don’t fall under the category of “educated DC residents.”

OP - most educated DC residents couldn’t care less about where you live, but unfortunately there are a few bored, desperate housewives with kids in private school that need someone to look down on. You don’t want to run in these social circles anyway. They are deeply insular but accomplish nothing in terms of societal advancement, so there is nothing to be gained.

Thank God for Virginia! Isn’t that what Alabamans say about Mississippi?

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Anonymous wrote:The police academy director , who is Chinese American, was asked to not sign HIS NAME using Chinese characters. This is in NORTHERN Virginia. This wouldn’t have happened in DC. The xenophobia is so Old Dixie 1950s.

“A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates.

Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard complained that the academy director, Maj. Wilson Lee, used Chinese characters to sign the certificates that graduates receive when they complete training at the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy.”

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-signatures-virginia-graduation-certificate-03069737acd18a56dd281862645b0b0a

I'm Asian American and don't think it's cool that he's signing his name in Chinese, especially as a public official.

Stupid to punish the graduates for that though.

You must be an Asian American who lives in VA. 🙄

DC Asians would be free to sign their Chinese name using Chinese characters, and no one would bat an eye. That’s what happens in sophisticated, world capital cities with embassies, the IMF, World Bank, State Department, universities with students from all over the world, etc. At least in official capacities, we’re not threatened by other peoples’ cultures. However, individual DC residents may be just as xenophobic and culturally backwards as some VA residents.

That’s comical. No one at the IMF, World Bank, or State Department would sign their names using characters from non-working languages on any official documents. My spouse works at the World Bank. We have friends at the Fund. These are international organizations where documents may be in any of the 6 official working languages. However, a Chinese person working in French would not sign off in Chinese. Nor would a Russian working in English sign off in Russian.

I work at the State Department and anyone signing off on anything official using non-English characters would be reprimanded, laughed out of the building or both. Signatures on official documents are there to ensure a chain of accountability, and anyone signing in a language that was not universally used within the organization, that would defeat that purpose.

DC Asians are free to sign their names in whatever language they want. But not in lieu of English on any official government documents.

Lol—you’ve typed a lot of nothing. We’re talking about a police training academy in VA. This would be a non-issue at a police training academy in DC…because it just isn’t a big deal. Now, the Herndon Police Department has to find another training facility. All that fuss and what did it get her?!?

Btw, your Sisyphean defense of the stupid stance taken by the Herndon police chief proves the OPs point. You’re fighting yet another lost cause, Dixie. That’s one of the reasons why some/many/most educated DC residents look down on people who choose to reside in VA. It’s the home of a sitting SCt justice who flew an upside down American flag outside his home. And another miserable “justice” who is married to a woman who tried to assist in the overthrow of the federal government (“release the Kraken”). Please throw the entire state away!

NP. This is not even a remotely true statement, just like your IMF/WB/State comment. You’re just a classless snob and projecting it onto others. With not enough hobbies or interests to keep your mind occupied so you fixate on what jurisdiction people live in (and making up facts on the internet). Educated DC residents have too many more important things to care about.

Sticks and stones.

It’s true for me and others, so that would fall under “some/many/most.” I can have whatever opinion I want about people who choose to live in the former capital of the treasonous confederacy (with many roads, schools, and institutions named after traitors); and elected a governor who is trying to eliminate a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own body. You don’t have to like it.

P.S. Fixate? Lol! I rarely think about or grace VA with my presence. I’m commenting because the OP asked a valid question.

Based on the poor reasoning underpinning this statement, I’m pretty sure you don’t fall under the category of “educated DC residents.”

OP - most educated DC residents couldn’t care less about where you live, but unfortunately there are a few bored, desperate housewives with kids in private school that need someone to look down on. You don’t want to run in these social circles anyway. They are deeply insular but accomplish nothing in terms of societal advancement, so there is nothing to be gained.

Thank God for Virginia! Isn’t that what Alabamans say about Mississippi?

And Virginians should be thankful for West Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Factoid: the northern VA economy is growing 3x faster than DC and MD. After kid graduates from Sidwell, STA or NCS, goes to college and then chooses to move back to the DMV, he will be crossing that bridge to work in Tysons Corner or Reston.

Factoid: top students at DC privates are disproportionately from Virginia.

Factoid: top parent donors to DC privates are from Virginia.

Factoid: Virginia parents who send kids to DC privates are almost always self-made. DC parents not so much.

Yeah, but all those VA parents are still inferior... sucks, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

Still too much Lee this, Jackson that and "war of northern aggression" memorabilia. Get the rest of the Confederate dead-enders out of your state and we'll consider letting you come to our DC parent's parties.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

Still too much Lee this, Jackson that and "war of northern aggression" memorabilia. Get the rest of the Confederate dead-enders out of your state and we'll consider letting you come to our DC parent's parties.

Ok, let’s make a deal. In exchange, you get rid of all of your aggressive big law partner types and the “my brain is bigger than the universe types” and the party has to consist of actual friends— not social climbing in some DC power vacuum that no one else cares about.

To be clear, I am not going to Maryland. That is way too far.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

Still too much Lee this, Jackson that and "war of northern aggression" memorabilia. Get the rest of the Confederate dead-enders out of your state and we'll consider letting you come to our DC parent's parties.

Imagine being so desperate to appear old money that you go on an anonymous internet forum to bang on about the Confederacy. Sad, really. Those “DC parents parties” likely only exist in your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard anyone look down on VA parents. I have no idea what you are talking about, you are being over sensitive.

+1.

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Weird post.

For example, a couple of heirs of the Mars fortune live in northern VA as does the co-founder of the Carlyle group.

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Anonymous wrote:Ill bite. Even though I know I shouldn't buy I've had 3 glasses of wine. There is a gut reaction that I get when I meet the few parents from Virginia. I realize they live far away, may have different political views and I sure as hell don't want to drive out there for a play date. I also get the sense of social climbing and that stench is hard to ignore. So I say hi and then ignore them completely because if DD makes a friend who lives in McLean I sure as hell don't want to drive out there on a Saturday.

Social climbing? More Old Money and status in Virginia than in MD, darling. Probably DC, too.

Well I live in DC. And you know you're wrong. Nova is so new money it hurts. Everything is gaudy and flashy. People trying to live outside their means so they lease a new car yearly to try and create false status. Eh. Call me when your family has a crest and funded America's railroads.

So my family has a crest, allow me to respond - my family has lived in DC for several generations. I don't know anyone from VA that is like you are describing, but I'm assuming that you are trashy, which is why you attract trashy people.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

Still too much Lee this, Jackson that and "war of northern aggression" memorabilia. Get the rest of the Confederate dead-enders out of your state and we'll consider letting you come to our DC parent's parties.

Imagine being so desperate to appear old money that you go on an anonymous internet forum to bang on about the Confederacy. Sad, really. Those “DC parents parties” likely only exist in your mind.

Imagine being so pitiful and desperate to defend the confederacy that you claim to celebrate “heritage not hate.” News flash: Your heritage is hateful.

I’m grateful that I don’t live in the land of delusion, confederate monuments, and lost causes. VA is teetering on joining its more southern neighbors who wish to bring the Handmaid’s Tale to life. Do better Virginia!

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

Still too much Lee this, Jackson that and "war of northern aggression" memorabilia. Get the rest of the Confederate dead-enders out of your state and we'll consider letting you come to our DC parent's parties.

Imagine being so desperate to appear old money that you go on an anonymous internet forum to bang on about the Confederacy. Sad, really. Those “DC parents parties” likely only exist in your mind.

Imagine being so pitiful and desperate to defend the confederacy that you claim to celebrate “heritage not hate.” News flash: Your heritage is hateful.

I’m grateful that I don’t live in the land of delusion, confederate monuments, and lost causes. VA is teetering on joining its more southern neighbors who wish to bring the Handmaid’s Tale to life. Do better Virginia!

Lol I neither live in nor am from Virginia, so “my” heritage is not anything. But your obsession with this is not normal or healthy.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC either believe Nova is "new" money or backwards. They don't seem to realize how VA has changed due to immigration and migration. Many immigrants prefer Northern Virginia and don't focus on its history.

But they still want to go back to the good 'old confederate days.

Have you traveled in MD outside the DC suburbs and Baltimore? Total nostalgia for the good ole confederate, slave-holding days. Total Trump country. It's why we decided not to buy a second house at the MD shore, lovely though it is.

Well, in VA they actually voted to go back to good ole confederate, slave-holding days.

Even the IT sweashops in NoVa want to go back to the 'good ole days'
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

The firm's HQ is in Loudoun county, which is Trump country. Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax are purple, leaning more blue.

Only idiots take one incident and turn it into a sweeping trend.

If you think Arlington and Alexandria are purple, you need to do some more homework.

Not only are Arlington/Alexandria not purple, they’ve always been “blue.” Arlington/Alexandria were Union territory. They were exceedingly anti-slavery and the union set up defenses along the “Arlington line” in territory that was pro Union to protect DC.

Oh, honey. Go look where the Mason Dixon line was. Educate yourself before spewing nonsense