“White trash” – this was the first time I had heard this label used other than in American films. I had to look it up to actually understand what this student was telling me when I was trying to support his work in a maths lesson.
“Slur referring to poor White people, signifies lower social class inside the White population and especially a degraded standard of living, people living on the fringes of the social order, without respect for authority whether it be political, legal, or moral. The term may also be used self-referentially by working class Whites to jokingly describe their origins or lifestyle.”
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