When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?: A Southern Lady Asks the Impertinent Question
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00O4FSRIO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 282 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Giving up on shavingshoweringand employment. What happened to etiquette, hygiene, and self-restraint? Charlotte Hays, Southern gentlewoman extraordinaire, takes a humorous look at the spread of white trash culture to all levels of American society.. Unwed pregnancy. These used to be signatures of a trashy individual. Now they're the new norm. Tattoos
The Politically Incorrect Guide To Good Manners Hays makes completely valid points about the levels modern society has stooped to because we know longer have the collective will to sort our lives out properly and discern what is correct behavior from reprehensible irresponsibility. We have become a slovenly nation of ill-educated, ill-mannered rubes who have disdained our glorious cultural past in exchange for personal and immediate satisfaction, while also becoming slaves to the tyranny of political correctness. T. "A Precise Observation of Current Manners" according to Mary E. Johnson. More serious than the title suggests, this book is a clear-eyed view of the loss of what some would call "class" and others would call simple civility. True, some of the examples are a bit tongue-in-cheek, but, unfortunately, too many of them are reflective of experiences many of us have had.. "Delightful read (and some FASCINATING, if deadly recipes)!" according to Kathylee Johnson. This is a terrific commentary on the direction that civilization is headed, and Miss Hays doesn't pull any punches. I'm pretty sure that there isn't a politically correct bone in her body! The title says it all, so for those readers who picked it up thinking that they were going to have a light, humorous read - well, you just should have taken the title a little more seriously. And maybe those folks who were appalled by her insensitivity and straightforward observatio