Ameritrash vs. Eurotrash

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Trash is trash. The Euro version might be more disco-oriented.

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Could someone describe Ameritrash and Eurotrash? And there are probably many types of each.

It's despicable to call any human being "trash." These are terms that no decent person should mete out to anyone.

There are problematic people and disadvantaged people but nobody is trash. That's a horrible mindset and I've always thought so.

Welp, I come from a lonnnnnng line of "White Trash", and as such, I feel I'm pretty good at recognizing it, in others. I've lived in Europe, and I see NO difference between our "trash", and their's.

I've never heard-of the terms "Ameritrash" and "Eurotrash"----but, I'm guessing those terms refer to not just "White Trash", but ALL ethnicities. They're, basically, what some would consider "low class" (bad manners, morals, values, etc.)----but then others would categorize them as "poor".

I didn't check a box, in the poll, because it said "they're equally bad", and I don't feel that "trash people" are, necessarily, "BAD" people----SOME, may be, but.....

When you, family, and friends get together do you say you're having a "Trashy Good Time"? Do you say to each other: "Hey trash, what's up" and "let's trash this place" and other "trash" talk?

What exactly makes you identify with trash? Not the reason why others may call your group of family, friends, and associates this, but why "you" identify with the name. Certainly this must sting when applied to family members you love.

For some reason, I think the OP was referring to music.

Sometimes, disco music coming from Europe is referred to by people as "Eurotrash."

Ameritrash

Eurotrash

Euro disco a subgenre of disco music

In the Nineties, the rock band Cracker recorded a song called "Eurotrash Girl" about an American guy who sleeps in his car in Paris, Athens, and Barcelona,ever traveling in his vain attempt to meet the "Eurotrash girl" of his dreams.

"Eurotrash" (as I understand it) are titled Europeans of the jet setting idle rich. Or maybe they arent necessarily rich. Those that arent rich often marry rich Americans (the Euro person gets to have money, and the American gets to have the aristocratic title).

Not quite equivalent to "White trash" which are American low class poor White folks. A category that overlaps with "Trailor trash".

Never heard the term "Ameritrash" before. Dont know it the term refers to White trash, or whether it means some kind of upscale American equivalent of "Eurotrash".

The affluenza kid might be an example of "Ameritrash".

The first time I ever heard the term "Eurotrash" was 20 or 30 years ago from the lips of Alan Dershowitz when he was talking about the Klaus Van Bulow case. He would mention individuals in the social circle of VanBulow and his camotose wife as being "Eurotrash".

I agree that as a rule that you shouldnt call people "trash", but when the folks so labeled are born priviledged and upscale (and if they dont do much of anything positive with said wealth and priviledge) then its not quite so bad. Someone like Alan Dershowitz who probably wouldnt use the term "White trash" on TV to mean poor folks, can get away with calling rich folks "Eurotrash".

If thats what the OP meant then the OP would have posted it in the "Writing,art, and music" subforum, and not here in PPR.

No experience with "Eurotrash".All the Europeans I've met seemed to be very nice people.I wouldn't refer to a poor person as trash.As one lady told me "You might be poor,but you can always be clean." When I think of homegrown trash this image comes to mind.An absolutely filthy,cluttered yard.Extremely nasty inside of dwelling,heaps of dirty clothes,mounds of dirty dishes and swarms of flies.Piles of skinny dogs running around encrusted with fleas, ticks,and the mange.Kids running around dirty with snot encrusted noses.No good food for the kids,just white bread and Bologna.Yet the parents will have plenty of cigarettes and a full cooler of cheap canned beer.The kind of people that suck the gas out of the lawn mower when you're not home.
I refer to myself as a Hillbilly,that's heritage.It does not mean trash.

I've only heard the term "Eurotrash" used in a disco music context.

I've never heard "Ameritrash"--ever.

The closest manifestation of a hypothetical "Eurotrash" phenomenon, from my conception, is the lifestyle of "soccer hooligans" and "skinheads." Or possibly wandering gypsies.

I guess I'll have to read up on this newer conception of Eurotrash and Ameritrash.

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You have it backwards. "Eurotrash" was originally people when the term was coined at least as far back as the 80's, and the use of it to mean music is the "later conception".

Like I said above when "trash" is stuck on the end of "euro" it mean UPPER class people. Not lower class. But its still derogatory.

Instead of being equivalent to, it's the polar opposite of American "White trash".

I dont think there was ever such a term as "Ameritrash". Dont know where the OP got that term.

But if "Ameritrash" means the equivalent of "Eurotrash" it would be applied, not to "trailor trash", but to people like Paris Hilton, or Kim Kardashian, (heirs to fortunes).

Have heard of "Eurodisco" (Abba, Boney M), and later Eurodancepop (Vengaboys, Ace of Base, Milli Vanilli). And since that kind of music is associated with happening nightspots in places like Ibizia where you might sight the migratory jet setting Eurotrash species its a natural evolution to start calling Eurodisco, or Eurodancepop, "Eurotrash music".

Soccer hooligans, and skinheads might be "chavs"( British slang for low class urban people) but they wouldnt be "Eurotrash".

A titled Brit who campaigns to stop new laws against animal cruelty because those laws would interfere with fox hunting..HE would be example of "Eurotrash".