Re: Re: Duality: The ghetto and the privileged
Originally posted by chithappens
WTF is this sentence trying to accomplish?
Making the heads of anyone who tried to understand it explode?
People of lower class always runs markets and gas stations and such.It is a low paying job.But I never thought anything of it.jm
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Re: Duality: The ghetto and the privileged
Originally posted by Czarina_Czarina
I know this "duality" thing is getting old. And this is nothing against anyone from the ghetto, please do not read it that way.Btw, the title sounds like a chapter from Aesop Fables.
Ok, try this out for size. Go to your local expensive health food store, let's say Whole Foods or Fresh Fields or another organic food market, and notice the type of workers compared to the shoppers, they are like polar opposites. I noticed that most of the cashiers were mostly animated ghetto in appearance and attitude, and the shoppers seems to have an air of privilege (who cares about a person's air, it's just an air anyway, but it's worth noting in this discussion) No matter when I was in Orlando Fl, or Atlanta, GA, or DC, these Organic Food markets (the real expensive ones or larger ones) seem to have this duality, the cashiers are all really ghetto, almost exaggerated in behavior and looks, seeming to put a lot of emphasis on this type of image; and the customers usually have an air of privilege (women who I assume, either don't work for a living or have several servants/nannies, somehow, financially spoiled, not sure if that means they acutally have several nannies, and I can careless if someone has several nannies or financially spoiled, this is just part of the observation b/t these two groups).
Which makes me wonder. I grew up in a nerdy family, we were not into fashion and we weren't allowed to act cool or be part of a cool-crowd, we were all nerds, dads' orders. I worked as a cashier while in high school, so I know about working my way through school, as that was my parents' orders.
Group A: I recall seeing some of the folks in school (5% of the population), who talked really cool, fashionable, and ghetto. What made me wonder was the fact that the ones who either pretended to be ghetto or was bused into the school, they all wore expensive cloths and new about expensive stuff, didn't care about education, and seemed to dominate the social scene, but primarily seemed to amplify the "ghetto" talk/walk, and again, this was about 5% of the population at school.
Group B: And, I recall hearing some of the richer students talk as if they are from the ghetto, they knew more "street" lingo then I ever knew. Maybe their nannies were from the ghetto and teaching them a few words or ways.
So, there seems to be a social exercise b/t polar opposites, ghetto-population and the privileged.
Just go to the local (expensive) health food store, and I wonder if you would see what I have been noticing all these years. And even with rap music, it seems to be the image of the "white" bread who doesn't SEEM to know anything about the mean streets, and the mean streets, again, polar opposite duality argument.
"Ghetto isn't just a location, it's a state of mind."
-Cora Daniels, author of Ghetto Nation.
^That's very true; you can be a multi-millionaire and still be ghetto.