data.3news-bydate.test.rec.motorcycles.103124 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (JACK ROGERS WATERS)
Subject: Re: Cultural Enquiries
Article-I.D.: ncsu.1993Apr5.220413.24002
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Lines: 47
In article [email protected] (Irwin Arnstein) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>>In article [email protected], [email protected] (Andy Woodward) writes:
>>>Two questions that fascinate me:-
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>>Check you local blue light special for a sale on lives...
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>>>1) Why are rednecks called rednecks?
>>
>>The origin of the slang is probably a reference to a sunburned neck,
>>often obtained while performing honest work outdoors. The neck is
>>specified to distinguish these people, whose shirt-protected chest and
>>back are pale, from the elitist wealthy, who, in their idiotic quest
>>for darker skin pigmentation as a badge of leisure time, overdo it and
>>get full-body sunburns.
>>
>
>More like those who use their backs instead of their minds to make
>their living who are usually ignorant and intolerant of anything outside
>of their group or level of understanding.
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>"Tuba" (Irwin) "I honk therefore I am" CompuTrac-Richardson,Tx
>[email protected] DoD #0826 (R75/6)
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That sounds like an awfully closed minded, intolerant attitude.
1/2 :')
I'm not a redneck but . . . try a walk in their shoes first. Stereotypes
are usually of very limited value. I've seen as many ignorant
self-righteous "open minded" new age lovers of the great planet Earth
as I have ignorant "red necks". I don't see a correlation. I don't
believe that the "redneck" culture, if you can call it that, is
necessarily inferior or superior to any other.
I gotta have a beer, I'm making too much sense. Next thing you know,
I'll be preaching tolerance . . .. and I'm a conservative.
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919
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