white trash

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 1:51 PM -0500 2/24/03, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Perhaps "white trash" was not the best  choice of words.  But what 
>alternative term would you use to describe the group of 
>self-righteous, arrogant whites, predominantly males, who feel that 
>they are entitled to the life style and consumption level  they 
>have, holding disparaging views of any other ethinic group 
>(including other "whites" such as Europeans or Jews) and women, 
>ethnocentric (or "patriotic"), deferential toward authority figures, 
>ignorant, displaying philistine attitueds toward culture and 
>learning,  favorably responding to the most debased calls and 
>causes, and deriving thinly veiled pleasure form suffering inflicted 
>on others?

Frat boys?
-- 
Yoshie

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