Mab of Dream

I'm still reading the Eminem book and I've just read a chapter describing Detroit. 8 mile sounds like Whitmore Reans and the whole of Detroit sounds like a bigger version of Wolverhampton. One thing it mentioned was 'white trash', which I think is the American version of the British working class.

I got musing. I think that if I was American, I'd be white trash. I flit between amused and proud of that. I think of 'Silence of the Lambs' and Clarice Starling being white trash. Whenever I hear those words, it's in Hannibal Lecter's voice. LOL

I was comparing the two terms and while, on the surface, it sounds like we've got the 'nicer' term for it, I think that if you probe further, it's the Americans who call it better. Working class implies that our whole being in life is to work, serve, be glorified slaves. White trash implies that our whole being in life is to be something that the higher classes don't value. There's cool, because I've seen some of their values and I demand not to be valuable by their standards! Besides once something has been thrown out, it's free to do what it wants, isn't it?

Obviously the 'white' is a race reference.

Mmmm...

Note to self - ask the next passing American what they call folk who aren't white, but who are working class too. Red trash, yellow trash, brown trash, black trash? You never hear of any of them! Perhaps it's only white people who get to be trash in America. It's a mystery.

yours
Mab
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