"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/6/2014 11:56 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>
>>> Dueling Banjos is a fine piece of music if you like that sort of thing.
>>> Here's a clip from the movie (hope you can see it):
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
>>>
>>> The boy playing the banjo was born with Downs Syndrome. The impression
>>> given in the movie is everyone who lives in the backwoods are inbred.
>>
>> Man! That kid might have problems but he sure can play that thing!!!
>> Very
>> touching, thanks. Teaches us not to generalise eh? <g> Even about the
>> Brits)
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> Yep, he sure could play that banjo! The movie itself expounded stereotype
> after stereotype. Now, I'm not saying I've lived among really backwoods
> hillbilly types. I didn't.
>
> I remember Mom and I visiting my aunt & uncle in 1980 in a very small town
> called Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania. My cousin asked if we had paved roads
> in Memphis, Tennessee. That had to be the silliest question I've ever
> heard. Gee, yeah. We even have indoor plumbing! LOL

Stereotyping eh?


>
> The place where he lived had a general store/gas station and a beauty
> parlor. A volunteer fire department. That was about it. Two lane roads,
> all the way. If you wanted to do anything you had to drive to Pittsburgh.
> Mount Jackson had a population of maybe 1000 people at the time. Memphis
> had a population of nearly a million people. The question was definitely
> based on stereotypes of things he'd seen on TV.
>
> Don't tell me the Royal Family isn't inbred?! <teasing> That seems to be
> the prevailing stereotype.

They used to be far more then they are now. They are allowing commoners in
now - albeit fairly posh ones <g>


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