Characteristics associated with the "white trash" stereotype would include being workshy, indolent and largely benefit dependent, with little ambition or drive for self improvement or education"
This is a description I have found on Yahoo Answers of 'White Trash'. Is this acceptable? Is it true? If so, is it valid to use this tag for so called 'underclass white people'. Many of the people who live in my area could possibly meet this criteria. A deprived former industrial area, Government grants and aid seem to pass us by. It is true many are on benefit, working 'on the sly' is strife; a 'get what you can' culture'. Drugs and alcohol are a curse but most are honest, good people brought up on solid values. Their fathers and mothers, grandparents have seen real hardship, stories of the last war and what people had to do to get through; the British Spirit! No ethnic group are beyond criticism, but seeking answers instead of chastising is the answer. Beware of white middle class racism!
2007-01-20
20:56:30
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