What Is A Low Rider Culture

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Low rider culture In the video “A rolling Canvas”, shows many people sharing their Low Rider life and how cars aren’t just for driving, but show how cars made a family. When we think of Low rider, we think about how the mass media scares people thinking that they are “thugs”, gangster” and other propaganda words. Media makes their tattoo, cars and fast speeds as a negative sanctions, but people only use ethnocentric lens due to the media and don’t see with an open mind. In “A rolling Canvas”, we see another side, we see people coming together because their love of a car, and created a culture. In Low Rider culture, they have cars with graphics. They typically have graphics with people on it, or not. Some people in the video describe them

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