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Encyclopedia > Trailer park trash

Trailer park trash (or trailer trash) is a derogatory U.S. English term for people who live in trailers or mobile homes, especially in trailer parks. The term is also applied to lower-class whites in general (hence the occasional "white trailer park trash"), regardless of where they actually live. American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... A travel trailer, or caravan, is a small trailer in which people can live and travel simultaneously. ... A modern double-wide mobile home Mobile homes are housing units built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied, usually by being carried by tractor-trailers over public highways. ... A trailer park is a neighborhood consisting of an area of land where mobile homes rest. ... Caucasian is originally a geographical term, meaning relative or pertaining to the Caucasus region of eastern Europe. ...


Because trailers provide housing at a lower cost than conventional foundation-built houses, and in past decades trailers had few amenities, there is a popular cultural conception that those who live in trailer parks are usually only those who are too poor or lazy to afford anything else. Because trailer parks require a large amount of space, they are found mostly in rural areas or on otherwise undesirable land in the suburbs. These factors combine to make "trailer trash" equivalent to "poor, rural and white". A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows his find. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...


The Canadian television series "Trailer Park Boys" is an ironic and humorous example of so-called trailer park trash. Done in mockumentary style, the show documents the misadventures of the residents of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park. Trailer Park Boys is a popular Canadian mockumentary from 2001 focusing on the misadventures of ex-convicts living in fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park which is located near Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... Mockumentary, a portmanteau of mock documentary (also fictional documentary or false documentary), names a film and TV genre, or a single work of the genre. ... Sunnyvale Trailer Park is the fictional home of the Trailer Park Boys. ...


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Trailer park trash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (201 words)
Trailer park trash (or trailer trash) is a derogatory U.S. English term for people who live in trailers or mobile homes, especially in trailer parks.
Because trailers provide housing at a lower cost than conventional foundation-built houses, and in past decades trailers had few amenities, there is a popular cultural conception that those who live in trailer parks are usually only those who are too poor or lazy to afford anything else.
Because trailer parks require a large amount of space, they are found mostly in rural areas or on otherwise undesirable land in the suburbs.
White trash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1329 words)
White trash (extended: poor white trash; acronym: "WT") is an ethnic slur or racial epithet usually used to describe certain low income persons of European descent, especially those perceived as having crude manners, abnormally low moral standards, and lack of education.
White Trash culture is parodied on http://www.gangstatrash.com and http://www.gangstatrashbarbie.com via the character "Gangsta Trash Barbie" and her white trailer trash friends.
Trailer Park Boys is a high rating Canadian television programme produced by Showcase that features young adult males living in a fictional Trailer Park.
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