is there any expesific country where this people come from ?
2006-08-26 13:34:47 · 11 answers · asked by whitetras1 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Red Rober is an example of what is white trash...
2006-08-26 13:58:35 · update #1
Red Rover is an example of what is white trash...
2006-08-26 13:59:09 · update #2
The term 'white trash' was in some early American novels:
--In Sherwood Anderson's 1920 novel Poor White, a Southerner who thinks of himself as "poor white trash" makes his way as an inventor in a small Midwestern town.
--In Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the Ewell family are referred to as "white trash."
I believe it's an American thing.
2006-08-26 13:39:00 · answer #1 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "white trash" first came into common use in the 1830s as a pejorative used by the slaves of upper-class Southerners, often plantation aristocrats, against poor whites, below even the status of yeomen, who worked in the fields; at the time, it was synonymous with the slurs "sand hiller" and "clay eater"; "white trash" were (hyperbolically) assumed to farm ineptly on poor land and therefore resort to eating clay in order to survive. The term involves both behavioral characteristics (such as mannerisms, lifestyle) and overt racial characteristics (whiteness). The term is widely used across the United States, not only in the South, Appalachia, and Midwest, but also in East and West Coast cities like New York and Los Angeles, as a shorthand to deride others. On the West Coast, however, the term is often used colloquially in its abbreviated form: PWT.
2006-08-26 14:10:41 · answer #2 · answered by ewb843 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure but I don't like the term. I heard white people say this about other white people and I really despise it because it is a way of creating a hierarchy based on class among white people. Nobody should be called "trash".
2006-08-26 13:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by TML ♥'er 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White trash is a very old term to describe poor white ppl
2006-08-26 13:44:53 · answer #4 · answered by okayokayokay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one person in this world is trash that is such a nasty thing to say !!!!
People are all children of God we all here to experience all types of life and all experiences that comes with that.
Maybe you need to try and find some acceptance in your life
And learn to treat and love others, the way you want to be treated and loved ?
Love & Blessings
Milly
2006-08-26 14:06:29 · answer #5 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There are white trash in every country.
2006-08-26 13:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by PonderinStuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-05 21:32:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
White trash has nothing to do with where you live or came from. It has to do with your "mind-set".
2006-08-26 13:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White trash is just a general term to refer to white people who are foul mouthed, immoral, very egotistical and selfish.These people live by no code, they live and do as they please.
2006-08-26 13:40:33 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask your mother. Maybe her webbed toes came in handy during the sea crossing.
2006-08-26 13:39:42 · answer #10 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋