How do you define white trash?

[circusgirl]

Ah Bfold you are not one of the redneck kids who beat up my ass in school, y'see. It's THOSE rednecks I have a problem with. ANd yes, I used to get a lift to school on my neighbour's tractor. Kids like tractors. And bulldozers. and MONSTER TRUCKS! yay!

 

[circusgirl]

oh, and if you're referring to me in that post Code, I picked that list up off the internet. I assumed people would realise it.
I didn't claim to author it.
circusgirl

 

[The Shadow]

...there is a difference between being a Southerner and a red-neck - just so "y'all" know.

 

[Legs1010]

Any woman who has big hair or a perm would seem to be white trash.

What? Just because a woman has a perm doesn't make her white trash. That is the most asinine thing I have ever heard.

 

[Japanese machine]

usually when your house sits on cement cinder blocks, you wear plaid shirts with the sleeves cut off, and you have shot gun stashed in you closet....i would say you are WT. "seek the mullets"

 

[john937]

White Trash - anybody on the social ladder lower than yourself.
Everybody likes to think they are "special", so that requires looking down on somebody else.
The problem with that view, it means there's also somebody higher on the social register looking down at you thinking "trash".

 

[casavant]

I don't see pitbulls as white trash, or flip flops, or someone who drinks too much.

And I have to say one thing about a lot of people that most on here would consider "white trash". While there are many that are just pretty darn worthless, there are also some who will work right beside you all day doing some hard fucking labor, or who will be the first to pull you out of a ditch if you spin off the road. There are even some who are surprisingly intelligent. Nobody should get too comfortable in dismissing someone based on what they see at first glance.

Had to throw that out there before we all got too excited about sitting around here and stroking ourselves.

 

[Doktor Bollix]

There's an element of truth in that John937. We Americans are just as snobby and class conscious as anyone else. In America though, unlike everywhere else, the social register is mostly about how much money you have, regardless of education level or conformity to bourgeois standards.

People with more money than, for example, me, would need to talk to me for a while and ask me questions which I would have to answer before finding out that I am in fact a person of less than fabulous riches, and therefore an inferior being. Whereas if I had a ponytail and a wifebeater, and a pair of shorts I made by hacking my baggiest jeans off 6 inches above the ankle, they would dismiss me as white trash immediately. If they found out later I was heir to the Depends fortune, they would come back and kiss my ass, white trash or no. That's the kind of fake people we all are.

I therefore am only talking about the white trashiness that everyone knows as such when they see it.

I have had no success trying to establish a Universal Standard of White Trashiness. Most of you all have them confused with rednecks, which are mostly confined to Elvis land. Yeah I know New Hampshire is all rednecks, and up-state New York too. I see mostly white trash from the suburbs. Suburban white trash. Women who wear white stilletto heels with band-aids hanging off their heels along with shorts live in their hundreds and thousands there.

Anyway it's a good way to antagonize people. OK, if you're mother weighs over 400 lbs you are probably white trash.

 

[john937]

[rant]The problem I have with defining Trash in terms of money is I'm sure there's a starving art student with Phd's in creating art or art history, who looks at his customer as white trash who just won the lottery and has multiple millions of dollars to spend on black velvett elvis paintings.
Everybody wants to be on top, or at least not on the bottom.
The rich call the poor trash.
The poor call the imigrants trash.
The imigrants call the convicts trash.
I'm not sure who the convicts call trash, but I'm betting there's somebody they look down on.

I just wish people could understand that two things can be different without one being better than the other.
Apples are different from Oranges, but that doesn't make the Orange inferior.
[/rant]

 

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[rant]The problem I have with defining Trash in terms of money is I'm sure there's a starving art student with Phd's in creating art or art history, who looks at his customer as white trash who just won the lottery and has multiple millions of dollars to spend on black velvett elvis paintings.
Everybody wants to be on top, or at least not on the bottom.
The rich call the poor trash.
The poor call the imigrants trash.
The imigrants call the convicts trash.
I'm not sure who the convicts call trash, but I'm betting there's somebody they look down on.

I just wish people could understand that two things can be different without one being better than the other.
Apples are different from Oranges, but that doesn't make the Orange inferior.
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The "end" in your brackets is not needed, in fact it breaks the hypothetical code. the "/" is all that's needed to sginify the end of the statement.