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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
you call another class of people hick in another stereotype - how is that different? I get that some, but not all, hicks are the ones doing the mean things, but I think until we get away from that, it will never end. Just an academic point I guess.
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Well, I don't think "hick" necessarily falls along racial lines. For me "hick" is not about the color of one's skin, eyes or hair. For me "hicks" are people from the south who are ignorant about the world at large and retain a bullheaded unwillingness to embrace anything/anyone different from them, whether it's food, music, religion, "family values," etc., thereby becoming blinded by their own myopia. Their counterparts in the north are called "philistines."
Their counterparts in Europe are called "the French."
What can I say... I grew up in the south...