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White americans do this too. Think ozarks. I know plenty of ridiculously smart people from this region, who if they talked about the food they ate or didn't wor
by paiute 4y ago
White americans do this too. Think ozarks. I know plenty of ridiculously smart people from this region, who if they talked about the food they ate or didn't work hard to extinguish their accents would probably not have jobs w/ coastal tech companies.
- shapefrog 4y ago
- onion2k 4y agoIn my experience that's not true at all. People from all strata of society wore those red hats. It's not a signal of class or 'caste' or anything similar. I've never met anyone who'd open carry an assault rifle, but again, I doubt you can really tell much about their background like whether they're rich, poor, working class, elite, or whatever else from it.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoI've also never seen a work environment where you could open carry anything. (Though I have been to a church that had a small sign in the parking lot, asking that people not open carry in church. And no, that was not what you would consider to be a "redneck" church.)
- dymk 4y agoThe first is political affiliation, and the second is simply being an idiot, neither of which are markers of caste nor protected classes.
- slaymaker1907 4y agoThat's not really caste because it's not based upon any immutable characteristic. Political affiliation is not caste.
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- washbrain 4y agoCaste is the wrong word for what you describe. Yes, those are cultural markers that clearly identify a person belongs to a certain group, but it's not nearly the same thing as caste.
- seti0Cha 4y agoAre you trying to imply that discrimination against rural/southern people is ok because they have unacceptable political views? I don't know how else to read your reply. If so, you've done a great job of illustrating GP's point.
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- dgs_sgd 4y agoThe discrimination based on accent is obvious to me but the food surprises me.. what kind of food from that region is looked down upon on the coasts?
- 3qz 4y agoIt isn’t necessarily the food itself, it’s just that the food marks somebody as lower class. For example, not knowing how to order sushi or use chopsticks. Maybe a better example is not knowing anything about wine. People will think you’re stupid or have bad taste. What would you think of a coworker bringing bologna and ketchup sandwiches to the office?
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- vitaflo 4y agoI would assume they were frugal and trying to pay off a massive student loan debt. But I’m also from the Midwest and don’t know how to order sushi.
- 3qz 4y ago> I’m also from the Midwest and don’t know how to order sushi. So was I, and everyone thought I was a barbarian.
- asveikau 4y agoI grew up and got a CS degree in the northeast. Then worked in tech in Seattle and the Bay Area I can tell you that a lot of coastal techies have stereotypically unrefined tastes in food and wine and they're still successful. Ours is also a trade in which many are stereotyped as lacking various social skills.
- survirtual 4y agoNothing. I would think nothing of it, because I am not a low-classed, stone-aged, rocked-brained imbecile judging people by superficial nonsense instead of the content of their character & quality of their work. You can have all the money, power, and authority, but it doesn’t change the contents of your character. This type of judgement is indicative of low-class at a soul level — if such an impoverished soul makes judgement, it means absolutely nothing in the cosmic scheme of things.
- dogman144 4y agoTrue enough. Remote workers moving to non-Asheville Appalachia and some related tech companies could have interesting outcomes for the region. I worry about whatever you call Ozarks gentrification though. There’s a lot of cheap land away from the mining/coal environmental issues that the locals have a lock on right now but decent RSU grants more than pay for.