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I can't speak for those posters and don't know what to tell you on your perceptions. My perceptions are different.
I was a poor dark-skinned kid who grew up in America's worst ghetto at the height of crack. I'm not saying that to claim some bad ass title. Just saying that when I see freaks, wannabe gangsters, whatever (and you get it all out here daily) it doesn't phase me.
I also see hippies who appear homeless but then get into $300K cars then drive up the PCH to Malibu.
Whatever.
I haven't lived in middle America so I don't what it was like or what it's "suppose to be like". Lord knows I'm not going back into the ghetto for sh*ts & giggles now either. I worked my butt off to get out of that hellhole. I'm too dainty and sensitive In my old age anyway.
The only exposure I get to white suburban middle class people is when I go back to my native Ohio and visit my elderly mother. It's brief but I just see regular white folks like you'd see on tv. They don't say or do anything to me and I'm not white. Are they hiding their thuggery around a former ghetto kid?
I kind of feel bad for you, my friend. Because you THOUGHT you were escaping the ghetto, but.....
For 100 years, America operated with a safe, subconscious assumption that the thug/gangster life was a few people in a few small places. And that’s how thug/gangster life actually WAS. YOU probably labored under that subconscious assumption, too....that what you were leaving behind would remain in stasis. But my, how fast that stasis blew up.
You’d better keep running, because the ghetto is following you. I guess it didn’t want to stay as just a few people in a few small places.......
Gangsta rap peaked in the early 1990s. Thug culture/attire has been on the decline since the early 2000s, though there will always be an element of that.
People thought Elvis shaking his hips was immoral back in the day and people thought the world was ending during the hippie era.
One noteworthy criticism of gangsta rap is that it can help further cement that common stereotype of Blacks being thugs, whores, or the like!
Are you telling me I can fly up from L.A. to Manchester or Caribou and I'm going to see the same freaks/wannabes I see here daily?
Not as bad, no.
I've been to venice beach and most of the people were beyond disturbing, and this is a supposed tourist hot spot.
Been around a bunch of places in LA and its obviously worse there. The rich are more counter culture, as well as the middle class, and the homeless are homeless. Some ghetto people as well.
But I'm saying relative to what we have to deal with, New Hampshire is getting progressively worse year by year.
You wouldn't see it and I'd rather live in Manchester than anywhere in the traffic filled hell hole that is Los Angeles, but its getting worse.
The rap gang culture is pathetic and seeing people with tattoos and pierced skin is repulsive. Hair dye, loud gangster rap, and 'modern aesthetic' are ruining people, architecture, and dialect.
Even here in New Hampshire a ton of legitimately attractive girls who are fit and really smart wear nose piercing which are just off-putting and disturbing.
And consumer electronics like airpods are making it worse. I don't want a pristine orthodox religious population were people dress obsessively conservative.
I just want people to be normal, is that too hard?
Everywhere in America it seems to be looking and feeling more third world by the day. It's no surprise with so many from the third world arriving constantly. Plus economic policies have been gutting opportunities for the average person, and leftist and the media promoting trash culture. It's kind of amazing America isn't a third world country already.
The whole country is the ghetto, in 2019. Every square foot.
So grab your passport, pack your bags, and leave.
The rest of us will live and let live.
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