Redneck Research Paper

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The word redneck could mean a great deal of things, such as a hick from the south or a quick tendency to turn to violence. Also, it could mean your childhood was influenced by a farming community away from any major city. Some people might also consider rednecks beer guzzling trailer trash. On the other hand, most could distinguish the difference between country and trailer trash. Most people look down on the redneck culture, and some call it a derogatory filth (as Wikipedia calls it) that lives in the south where the shoeless hillbillies live, they live in old run down shacks cut into steep mountains full of black coal. Rednecks are usually stereotyped according to the impressions their accents give, slang, and communication styles. They do just fine in everyday life without proper etiquette or suits and ties. If you were to look up "redneck" in Webster 's Dictionary there would be a picture of a man by the name of Buford Delbert Pierson. He was born and raised in a rundown shack on a dead end road out in the middle of nowhere during a heat wave in July of 1959. Of five children, he was the oldest. When he was twelve he pretended he was Tarzan and swung from branch to branch on a huge Weeping Willow tree that was close to twenty feet tall. He hit another tree and knocked his front teeth out. He didn 't cry much, he mostly …show more content…

Rednecks talk a little slower than most folks. They use words that usually aren’t proper to most people, but that have a nice sound to them. They even like to repeat a popular phrase now and then like: "dog won 't hunt", in other words: bad idea or a waste of time or "can 't never could and could never would", in other words: you 've got to try. Obviously, there is a communication barrier to break through to get on the country-type redneck speaking terms, and most fail to overcome that, and therefore miss the nuances and subtleties associated with this culture. In most cases, it 's not that they’re stupid, it 's that they speak another