'white trash' is a despicable derogatory word...should be banned & abolished from the english language, very harmful to America...the fact is that a lot of white americans relent to a lower-class life simply to 'keep the peace' ...ie they are allowing others to win the race for the sake of allowing them to think they are superior.
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Throughout this volume, there is an awareness of a cruel aspect of our moral complexion. "Americans not only scrambled to get ahead," she writes, "they needed someone to look down on." Gore Vidal put this another way: "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose...."
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Throughout this volume, there is an awareness of a cruel aspect of our moral complexion. "Americans not only scrambled to get ahead," she writes, "they needed someone to look down on." Gore Vidal put this another way: "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose...."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/books/review-white-trash-ruminates-on-an-american-underclass.html?emc=eta1&src=me&ref=general&referer=
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