Chanel, Amanda, Joey and The Return of the Jewish American Princess

  Stereotypes, ducks, inventory numbers - all the suffering, label people instead of piecemeal wholesale business - hard. Just when you think they have in the drawer of a historian, they show up again, went the hypothesis of a new life. Neighborhoods come and go, people stay come and go, rise and fall, decay modes and governments, but stereotypes. I give these dark thoughts because of television or, more precisely, the number of episodes that make up the universe "Princesses: Long Iceland," the latest reality show, courtesy of Bravo. This program can spray me very angry and in a state of - but I can not go back. Apparently I'm not the only one: If the comments are any indication in the blogosphere, this Court Princesses a wide audience. "Princesses: Long Iceland" follows a group of Jewish single women in their late 20s, because they fear pout, strut in very high heels and very short dresses, drink and talk like sailors as well. Fixation on her body, especially her "breasts", they spend a lot of time on and off, shopping, texting and worrying about their marriage prospects down. Some of the girls talk about finding a good Jew, but that is as far as possible. Judaism as a religious attitude knowledge, has cultural, ethnic or existential not much you save with each of them. Judaism is more of an aesthetic preference, the order of the "tall, dark and handsome." Some of the girls, especially those known as "Chanel" - I am not kidding you - like throwing out Yiddishisms tired and boring ("Oy, I shvitzing") and take dinner on the Sabbath, in which large amounts of Manischewitz (Manischewitz! ) are slaughtered. Otherwise, Judaism is not much room in their lives. During each show begins with a mandatory reference surface and a cute saying or proverb Jewish people, but vanity is strategically designed to restore Jewish reference group. It does not ring true. These girls would not know a Midrash a bubbe-mayse. Equally fabulous in the literal sense, is their economic situation. Here and there we talk about being "entrepreneurish" Amanda advertisement for a product of his own invention that they "drink handkerchief" as a: a strip of cloth, usually a leopard pattern to Wrap a cold soft drink instead of a towel that. Joey's friend Amanda breast came with a silly suggestion: a breath freshener and lip gloss combination, calls it Kissamint. Apart from these two business women in the grass, no one else seems to strike a balance, much less demanding and responsible work, or keeping them in the least concerned with the finances. They live in the air - or, better yet, on the dime of their parents. If you have not seen the show or do not know someone, you might think that I do things that I go along. I wish I could say I prefer the leg, but unfortunately I'm not. Chanel, Amanda and Joey are not figments of my imagination or ridicule the Jewish American Princess, the so-called Japanese of yore.