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Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!ogicse!emory!gatech!taco!jrwaters From: jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK ROGERS WATERS) Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles Subject: Re: Cultural Enquiries Message-ID: <1993Apr5.220413.24002@ncsu.edu> Date: 5 Apr 93 22:04:13 GMT Article-I.D.: ncsu.1993Apr5.220413.24002 References: <1993Mar17.115603.28712@aber.ac.uk> <1phuse$5u1@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos In article irwin@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Irwin Arnstein) writes: >In article <1phuse$5u1@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes: >>In article 28712@aber.ac.uk, azw@aber.ac.uk (Andy Woodward) writes: >>>Two questions that fascinate me:- >> >>Check you local blue light special for a sale on lives... >> >>>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. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"Tuba" (Irwin) "I honk therefore I am" CompuTrac-Richardson,Tx >irwin@cmptrc.lonestar.org DoD #0826 (R75/6) >------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ I don't fear the thief in the night. Its the one that comes in the ~ ~ afternoon, when I'm still asleep, that I worry about. ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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