Between white America's appropriation of black American pop culture and the rise of yuppie hipsterdom, this applies just as much to the U.S., doesn't it?
But at the same time it glorifies it.
That is of course interesting. I believe Slavoj Zizek (who's quote is at the top of the article) would have a lot to say about that. How the new mode for something to be accepted is for it to also contain satire about itself. It is in a way inoculating itself against other satire.
I recommend reading or listening to Zizek. Not sure how serious you can take him (maybe his philosophy works are more in depth and serious) but his talks are very engaging. It at least makes for good conversation topics.
When poor or redneck Whites live in their own way, the are characterized as uneducated violent brutes who are in need of education and culture.
And yet when middle class Whites act decently, they are attacked for their soullessness and lack of authenticity. They are criticized for being out of touch with poor people, by the same people who heap scorn on poor (White) people.
See my blog for a deconstruction of anti-racist ideology and its attack on White people.
Besides which, black people in the USA are under attack in the form of being regularly murdered by officers of the state for no legal reason.
Citation for that?
I think very roughly, Americans are fine with economic classes, but not with social classes. Probably because even our rich are mostly new money outside of Manhattan elite.
We love us some Warren Buffet, but hate fatcat, bluebooded new york bankers.
It probably explains why reality TV is obsessed with following around Rich people doing mundane things.
Ah, making sweeping generalisations of one demographic containing about 80m people and another of 330m people. Bound to be a good tactic.
Jeb's Catholicism is not a big deal for his electability or this would not be the first time I'd heard of it. By this time Mitt Romney's run I'd read multiple discussions on his Mormonism.
also SV start-up ecosystem is full of snobbery, just slightly different context/values