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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
Honestly? no.
I think my major issue is that people coming from the outside are often say things like "Oh, XYZ *chose* to be that way" when, if they took the time to get to know XYZ, they'd realize she grew up in a home where violence was a constant, and that she was sexually abused as a child. That she was tracked into remedial classes and given the worst teachers starting in the 4th or 5th grade. Things like that. I'm just really critical of people who come into rural communities and judge without really getting to know supposed "white trash" people. I know these people. I grew up with them. They're my friends. I've been grouped with them before.
I'm not big on passing judgement, if you couldn't tell. I'm not saying that some of the people you call "white trash" aren't lazy, immoral, or purposefully ignorant. But the great majority of them aren't.
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I know white trash- trust me I know rural too- Cynthiana, KY population- like 1500 or something and Burkesville, KY population around 600- two places I have spent a LOT of time.
I know a millionaire in Cynthiana- you'd never know it because he wears overalls and doesn't talk proper- he never went to college but has vast amounts of land.
As for the example you gave of the woman in that particular situation-
no matter where you come from and what your background is- you CHOSE to be ignorant, stupidity is different. Some people are just not intelligent, but ignorance is not something anyone chooses, and I have yet to meet any woman that doesn;t know going in public with, oh, I don't know, a sports bra a flabby stomach with stretch marks showing and short short, tight rolled shorts, doesn't present her in ANY nice light.
AND THAT is a CHOICE.
What you wear reflects who you are and you don't have to have money to wear anything nice, you can get a tee shirt at the goodwill for $.25 and that doesn't show.
Being rural doesn't make you redneck and being rural doesn't make you white trash, those are CHOICES. Like being GOTH...