Hillbilly

 

The Final Exam is next week. I will give the words to study

by tomorrow. The exam will similar to the midterm: vocabulary

match, comprehension questions and some small essay question.

For the homework, I will throw out the low score.

 

Let’s skip to the end of Life Aquatic, because I want to do one

program.

 

A hillbilly (white trash) is a stereotypical person that lives

in the Appalachian. The Marshall’s family are hillbillies.

Mountains in America. Kentucky is in

Appalachia. The stereotype is they are poor, dirty,

racist, uneducated and inbred. They are

religious too. They are violent and have

feuds (long lasting fights) with their neighbors. They have

a strong, twangy accent and terrible grammar. They

make grammar mistakes when they talk. They love to drive

pickup trucks.

Their ancestors are Scottish. In Scotland, the two main cultural

groups are the highlander and the lowlanders. Family alliances,

called clans, are important too.

Cracker is a a rude racist way to call white people.

Cut me a little slack: don’t be so serious or hard on me; take it

easy on me; let me go

Getting out of Dodge: escaping a bad situation

It was justified: fair; he deserved it

This program is called Justified.

 

This movie is paying homage to Pulp Fiction.

White supremacists (racist) often like Nazi symbols.