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LOL. This is so incredibly offensive to Americans. I am the grandson of butchers, farmers, and miners.

In the middle of the US, there are lots of (white) Americans that work in these jobs. Many are very proud of their profession.

Next time you want to go on a trip to "expand your horizons", go to a podunk town in a fly-over state and get to know your fellow Americans.

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Beyond that, to imagine that maintaining a medium sized farm or ranch isn't a skilled position is pure ignorance. There is a reason why a bunch of schools in the midwest were called agricultural schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agricultural_universit...

And its not just the owners, it goes right down to a lot of the year round labor.

There are young people who want to be farmers. Not many of them want to be just a farmhand - they want to own a business. But they'll still need workers.

I'm a white American who grew up harvesting tobacco on the side. It's not a gig Americans are willing to do. It sucks, it's dangerous, it doesn't pay all that well, and it's seasonal. For reference, I quit cutting tobacco in favor of cleaning out sand filters for sewage treatment plants. Which is to say, shoveling literal shit out of a hole in the ground is preferable to being a farmhand.

The American people you see doing this stuff are by-and-large the family of the land owner or teenagers whose backs are still functional (and have school duties during the off-season).

If you have a family, then you're going to need either a primary job, or an RV to move around. The only people making money farming are the land owners, and even then...

"White"? What does that matter?

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