Re: Are there rednecks in Europe too?
 

Perhaps it's because that flag is associated with slavery and biggotry, just as the swastika is associated with Nazism, no matter what else it might represent.
But that particular heritage has some pretty ugly parts; parts that aren't just confined to the dark corners of history. Hell, the flag is even used today by people with an utterly inhuman view on certain issues.

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You're intelligent enough to use a computer, surely that rules you out by default? =P

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Europe has different types of people than the stereotypical American redneck that would fit what you mean.

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Well not really rednecks. But as Master of puppets said, in the north part of Sweden there are some sort of "rednecks" they drive in old cars around the town square, screaming racial things, drinks beer and makes fun of the police.

When I grew up though (the 90's), the main problem was big well trained steroid pittbull-kinda like dudes. Who were 190-200 cm tall and wear Schott jackets (the Schoot jackets were their trademark so to speak). Those dudes were dangerous and those were the fellows you had to watch out for if you came to a small town. They were in the big cities aswell, and I would actually like to say that there were many more of them in the big cities. But those who existed on the country side were much more un-predictable.
I never had any problems with those kind of dudes since I knew many of them in my home city, but you could never know what those on the country side would do when they saw you.
And not that they were openly racists, but the racist-opinions were there. And immigrants weren't very liked, and also a hot target for those kind of guys.

These guys are still around in Sweden, but IMO you don't see them as much now days though as you used to. They still exist in quite large numbers here in Denmark though:)

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I'd like to take this opportunity to say GO SHERMAN! YEEAAH!
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WI...WER1238-1.jpeg The Shermanator! Second only to Buford in terms of being a sweet CW general.


That said, so long as there are two groups of people in the world, one is generally going to be 'redneck.' By that I mean working-class, low wage, bad lawn kind of person. And the two groups will ALWAYS make fun of each other.

Every society has them, they'll just call them hillbillies, chavs, sjonnies, et cetera. And can someone please tell me what 'Chavs' is derived from?

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The idea isnt to question whether or not Europe has American style rednecks but whether they have European style white trash. In america, white trash aka rednecks are characterised by loving loud obnoxious sports (nascar) swilling cheap beer, being ill educated, uncouth and bigoted hateful people stuck in the past (typically favoring a losing army). The European equivalent would also be a poorly educated welfare sucking slob with a fascination with sports (soccer hooligans) swilling cheap or warm beer and being hateful bigoted turds (neo nazis...) Im from what ive seen Europe has their fair share of white trash.

Oh and Jill, i love ya girl but come on. Even i, a true bred southern knows that Slavery was and will always have been the critical lynch pin in the Civil War. The claim about "States Rights" leaves out the part where the particular right in question was the right to own slaves and to expand that issue into new states. The initial proclamation for secession spelled out the issue of slavery being a key factor in any event. trying to gloss that over is historically dishonest. That the South ever thought it was a good idea to invade the North following its victories in Virginia is insane. had they held root, the war would have ended as it was terribly unpopular to the North at that time and they had no serious qualm against the South.

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IIRC, Chav means "Council House And Violent".

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Im sure theres so called 'Red necks' anywhere in the world, why wouldnt there be!? Theyre humans after all :uhm:

As for intangling the confederate flag in this... please dont! Thanx.

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The discussion is over since Roaming hit the spot here:)

No we don't have rednecks "American-style", but we do have violent white trash, like Romaing describes above.

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Well, Not many people in the South think very highly of Sherman. His march to the sea destroyed many peoples homes and property. Some Yankee people thing he was some sort of a hero that was talented and a successful General. Sherman was actually very brutal and cruel. Many civilains where raped, murdered and died due to starvation. He basically targeted civilians. You should read up more on your hero. BTW...have you ever noticed how crazy that guy looks in all of his photos? The man was evil.
Well...it all happened before we where born. At least we are one nation again and let's hope we learned something from the Civil war.