>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Music & dance are cultural expressions.
He's expressing his interpretation of the things that are important in his social environment.
It is a distinct cultural thing to go chat up big booty hoes at the Walmart.
Just like it was a distinct cultural thing to chat up wholesome christian girls at a malt shop.
I'm saying that this video & the culture it represents are only 'awful' by your ethnocentric standard.
>> ^legacy0100:
Chasing cheap booty is considered a cultural activity? I think you're way over-thinking this Genji.
It is what it is, a terrible rap video. That's the whole irony of our upvotes, the action is a statement saying that we recognize its awfulness, and not because we support the content.



I like that you made me think about this subject, Genji. You've presented me with a challenge, and forced me to gather my ideas and articulate myself. Thank you for this rare opportunity.

I've reached to the conclusion that you were right Genji, IT IS CULTURE. But it isn't just any culture, it's POVERTY CULTURE. This DOES NOT demand the same type of respect as some other cultures. Not all cultures should be considered equal, and I do believe I have a logical explanation.

So hear me out.

Robbing convenient stores or force raping other men can be considered a culture as well if you happen to live in a very violent ghetto or in prison. That is not a desirable environment to live in, but you would end up developing a subculture that specifically meets the needs of that particular environment. And now some may argue that these subcultures should also be held in the same regards as any other cultures. Well, I can respect the logic and reasoning of how these subcultures came to develop, but I still won't agree with the practices itself.

Let's go back to the contents of the video and its characteristics. Poverty culture generally tends to lean towards public nuisance and aggressively lascivious activities, which are actions that closely reflects our true basic instincts. But celebrating lack of control over your inhibitions and celebrating shopping at Wal-Mart isn't the highest standards one could have about themselves.

I'm sure there's a good reason why the types of dance and lyrics came to popularize in this particular town the video makers came from. And I can certainly understand that it is a culture sprouting from different environment and various life circumstances. But would I be supporting such low standards of self-control and standards of living? Hell no. I have higher living standards. Although everyone enjoys a fine booty rubbing against them, I can control my inhibitions and fight off the urge to dry hump someone in public.

All in all, this video reaks of low-class everything. Do keep in mind that this is not what all African American culture has to offer. This is the poor side of African American culture, just as white American culture would have Jersey Shore and Sarah Palin. I know plenty of African Americans who have much higher standards about themselves and their culture, and often speak out against the exact same thing this rap video is representing, and that is: Low Standards.

Just call it for what it is .... TRASH
Its not a cultural expression Its Trash!


>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Music & dance are cultural expressions.
He's expressing his interpretation of the things that are important in his social environment.
It is a distinct cultural thing to go chat up big booty hoes at the Walmart.
Just like it was a distinct cultural thing to chat up wholesome christian girls at a malt shop.
I'm saying that this video & the culture it represents are only 'awful' by your ethnocentric standard.
>> ^legacy0100:
Chasing cheap booty is considered a cultural activity? I think you're way over-thinking this Genji.
It is what it is, a terrible rap video. That's the whole irony of our upvotes, the action is a statement saying that we recognize its awfulness, and not because we support the content.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Music & dance are cultural expressions.
He's expressing his interpretation of the things that are important in his social environment.
It is a distinct cultural thing to go chat up big booty hoes at the Walmart.
Just like it was a distinct cultural thing to chat up wholesome christian girls at a malt shop.
I'm saying that this video & the culture it represents are only 'awful' by your ethnocentric standard.
>> ^legacy0100:
Chasing cheap booty is considered a cultural activity? I think you're way over-thinking this Genji.
It is what it is, a terrible rap video. That's the whole irony of our upvotes, the action is a statement saying that we recognize its awfulness, and not because we support the content.



i hereby promise not to disrespect any culture differing from my own, regardless of the amount of misogyny, violence, or lechery that these cultures may promote. now please excuse me, i have to skeet skeet skeet.

Music & dance are cultural expressions.

He's expressing his interpretation of the things that are important in his social environment.

It is a distinct cultural thing to go chat up big booty hoes at the Walmart.

Just like it was a distinct cultural thing to chat up wholesome christian girls at a malt shop.

I'm saying that this video & the culture it represents are only 'awful' by your ethnocentric standard.

>> ^legacy0100:

Chasing cheap booty is considered a cultural activity? I think you're way over-thinking this Genji.
It is what it is, a terrible rap video. That's the whole irony of our upvotes, the action is a statement saying that we recognize its awfulness, and not because we support the content.

Why can I see this guy ending this video, then heading to a bar and getting some hoe to do crack with him in a motel? Of course then he will go back to his "polite" family and beat them saying it is for their own good.

Pimp Train don't take no guff from hoes.

How to tell hoe pretty a black woman is. How much does she "act" like a white woman?

It's tough to report news as a Fox News reporter when there is too little time to pimp these hoes.

Dem hoes really bringin' da neighborhood down, yo.

I used to be With IT. But then they changed what IT was. Now what I'm with isn't IT, and what's IT seems scary and wierd. It'll happen to YOU.>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.


It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.
"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.
...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

QFT
>> ^rottenseed:

It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.
"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.
...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.



It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.

"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.

...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

I bet Mario and Link are perfectly acceptable male companions. But for your average hoe it's never enough, is it?

it is odd, When I was a boy n=aught eight years of age. I recall putting nails under a back hoe's rear wheels, not giving a shit about the expenses paid for the repair. years later I recalled this moment in my life, I still do. It dawns on me that this is the song I wish played for all those idiot kids who do stupid shit. If I was to wish upon them one theme song for when things go no where, its this one.

Ho Ho Ho, Hoe! Thanks! You too!
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Merry Siftmas!