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    How To Become (American) White Trash. The term ?white trash? used broadly and often accurately to define a person or group of persons whom embody the concepts of ignorance, racism, violence, alcoholism, and irresponsibility. To become white trash isn?t that hard. But not that many people want to be white even though they?re privileged but they?re very uninteresting. You just need to follow these simple steps to become part of that idiotic race. First you need to appropriate a culture and claim it as yours. Choose a culture like a Native American and black people. Like many people are doing and pretending to be black and etc. just to become a minority and have people feel pity for them. Another reason is to look cool in front of other people. Have a baby before you are legally an adult. Have sex once you get your first period or hit puberty. The younger you are the better result if you becoming white trash. Make safe sex your worst enemy. And don?t leave school when you?re pregnant. Be proud, show it off and convince people be like you. Get on government aid so you don't have to work. Once you have kids depend on the government to pay their bills. Remember to enslave your kids as labor. Once they are 8-10 sell them in the black market. Pretend as you…

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    Analysis Of White Trash

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    White trash has become a massive history in America dating back from the colonial period in Jamestown to the present day. Isenberg, in her book about the ‘white trash’ and as ‘the face of a white trash’, explains the unpleasant fine points of our national identity, tying to the America’s social hierarchy and how America has never offered an equal opportunity to all white comers. She gives us a very powerful insight about how the imagery of the class system and the consistency of prejudice is…

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    not do unless for entertainment purposes. Still with the scripted events and parts of the show the family members still stay true to themselves and present their true personality and character on screen. They maintain how they would usually act in real life amongst each other. The subject of the show follows the life of these “red necks” and reveals their culture for the viewers. The show does present stereotypes of what red necks would be, but it does not show the family in a negative light.…

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    In the short story “White Trash Primer”, by Lacy M. Johnson, a young woman undergoes drastic changes and hardships throughout her life. The literary technique used in this story is primarily voice. The story is told in a unique point of view as it allows the reader to go through the hardships that the narrator is going through. Rather than using first person or third person, she uses second person point of view. This type of literary technique allows the readers to vividly see through the lens…

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    Today is the 3rd of July the day we pack up and get ready to go to the cabin and get ready for the 4th of July. We bring food, swimming suits, and all our clothes we need for the weekend. My family and I are celebrating with my moms side which is the Inman’s. We get to see all our cousins and swim with them. There is a lake, a volleyball court but there is no net, sadly we forgot to bring one for the weekend. Tomorrow we are having a ‘White trash bash’. What is a “White Trash Bash’ you ask?…

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    Trailer Parks

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    of the homes it was obvious that there were broken blinds and many of the trailers did not have curtains to cover them. Driving through the park, there had been a sign on someone’s home that mentioned something about “trailer trash.” This is a stigma that has come around through the use of the film industry and television, who stereotype these places as “run down” and filled with drunks that are illiterate (Adkins “Trailer Trash”). During the Great Depression, people began to live out of these…

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    overweight woman. The media usually represents those who are poor and on welfare as Black or some other non-White minority. But the majority of those on welfare are white (Delaney & Scheller, 2015). As a country where being white can usually help you land a job and a steady income, what does it mean to be poor white? Whites that are using some form of government assistance are usually labeled as “white trash,” particularly those who live in the south. It is commonly believed that the same…

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    wicked color red? Do not mistake 'sultry' for 'oh my gosh, it's coming at me in red!' True, there is plenty of need for red tones and hues, but when compared to the sometimes overdone boudoir, this one is positively muted and demure. So how can the lady of the house transform a so-so master bedroom in a sultry den - all in one weekend? Easy - with five quick and simple steps. 1. Combine cherry red and deep brown. While bright red might be the color mostly associated with a stunning accent…

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    In the study, college students in the southern part of the United States were shown a color on a computer screen and asked to give their emotional response to each color. The results found that principal hues (e.g., red, blue, green, etc.) were rated 80% positively. The results also showed that achromatic colors (e.g., white, black, and grey) were rated positively only 29.2% of the time. Green was the most positively rated color and participants associated green with nature and soothing…

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    Fitzgerald associates Daisy with the color white, but to wear white is to be “an absolute little dream” (Schneider 2). Nick discovers white is a corrupt mixture of dream and reality (Schneider 3). To Gatsby, white is not pure, but it is inevitably stained by money. Daisy is a white flower with a golden center. In The Great Gatsby gold, along with silver symbolizes the dream and the reality. When Nick first sees Daisy, he notes they are “like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses…”…

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