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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Things like this makes me ashamed to call myself norwegian.
    Isn't the fact that people call onself just that one of the causes that this happens...

    Yeah, I was a bit surprised when I first read this, I must admit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
    It's easy to take a shot at a people as a whole; but one wonders, have you ever lived on the countryside?

    I still am.
    Not only do I live in it, I own a considerable part of it.

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    And I take your point, but rural racism has some special characteristics of its own, and can often be challenged less within a community than in urban settings, precisely because of the strength of community and the concurrent wariness of all strangers.
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    you call that "hillbilly"? welcome to appalachia, my friend.

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    Default Re: Another beautiful day in hillbilly racist land...

    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
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    And I take your point, but rural racism has some special characteristics of its own, and can often be challenged less within a community than in urban settings, precisely because of the strength of community and the concurrent wariness of all strangers.
    Well, yes, smaller communities does indeed tend to have these this village vs. the outer world; but where I live, adoptions are rather normal, and when you're exposed to people with different skin colour, but yet the same culture and exactly the same expectations to life, that's when racism becomes utterly meaningless.

    Still, this doesn't not prevent certain thoughts to be thought when angry arabs are showed on television, rest assured. Of course, this doesn't apply just to the countryside, though.
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    OP: Only marginally related to the original post, but I wasn't aware at all that terms like hillbilly, redneck, etc., were used outside of the U.S. very much. Is this usual, or just around international net/forum circles?
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    Default Re: Another beautiful day in hillbilly racist land...

    Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
    OP: Only marginally related to the original post, but I wasn't aware at all that terms like hillbilly, redneck, etc., were used outside of the U.S. very much. Is this usual, or just around international net/forum circles?
    Well, it just seems relevant terms when most of your audience is from the other side of the Atlantic. Anyone with (a bit more than) basic knowledge of english understands them. Besides that, every country has it's own terms, in french it could be "ploucs", "pécores", "cul-terreux", "bouseux", and so on....
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    If they were complaining about having this Pastor at a wedding or baptism, I would hurl them out the church doors. But when it comes to a funeral, forcing them to accept a Pastor they are not happy with, no matter how absurd the reason, just seems wrong.
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