Thursday, March 3, 2011
Black Trash vs. White Trash
The other day in American Studies, we discussed the term "white trash." For those who don't know, "white trash" is a stereotype thrown around to describe a generally vulgar, cigarette-smoking, teenage-mothering, trailer park caucasians with bad teeth. However, the fact that this stereotype only applies to white people may imply that for races like African American, the race in just assumed to be trashy. What do you think?
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I think that people say white trash because it implies that most white people are not trashy. I think that you could say black trash, but that nobody wants to say that for fear of being called a racist. It makes sense. I would tar and feather a person who called someone else black trash, but not someone who called another person white trash. I think that the name doesn't come from some kind of bad assumption, just a way to distinguish a certain group of people negatively.
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