Monday, October 30, 2006

Euro White Trash

The title to this post reminds me of the Cracker tune, Euro-Trash Girl, but this post is not about music, it’s about an excerpt I read from Gabor Steingart’s new book World War for Wealth: The Global Grab for Power and Prosperity (no Amazon link available).

I haven’t read Steingart’s book, but the following excerpt peers at the European underclass, or the unproductive and intellectually depraved. Though this excerpt is describing the European underclass, it could be describing the “white trash” of America.

But the main thing that sets the modern poor apart from the industrial age pauper is a sheer lack of interest in education. Today’s proletariat has little education and no interest in obtaining more. Back in the early days of industrialization, the poor joined worker associations that often doubled as educational associations. The modern member of the underclass, by contrast, has completely shunned personal betterment.

Interesting read.

The excerpt is available at Spiegel Online under the title White Trash, Fast Food: How Globalization Is Creating a New European Underclass.

Additional excerpts from Steingart’s book can be read here.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/30 at 04:43 AM
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