Re: Yokels (was Re: Singular Pluralities)

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:12, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> In a message dated 07/28/2002 09.04.44 PM, barry_garcia@CSUMB.EDU writes:
> >Another subset of yokels to me is "white/trailer trash", which are more
> >urbanized :).
>
>     "Sub-urbanized" is more what I think of when I envision "trailer
> trash"... Can't think of any urban trailer parks; most are suburban or
> rural - usually on land no one can use for anything except for, perhaps,
> landfill, chemical dump or junkyard.
>
>     OBconculture!:  any concultures with such or similar con-subcultures of
> _lumpenproletariat_  0_o?
So glad you aksed!  In my Alpha Centauri Alpha world where the Lakhabrech
hunt and the Rakhebuitya fish, there is a subculture in the Cities where the
outcasts - self outcasts and others - from the Lakhabrech and Rakhebuitya
villages go and mingle with similar outcasts from the Cities.

Lakhabrech call them - contemptuously - Aiyani Tshiglani - the Self-Broken -
because they break their claws so as not to be perceived as a threat by the
standard City populations, and they intermarry with the down-and-outs of the
City populations, and after a while you find that the shanty-towns are full
of yet another link in the cline of human variability - humans with big
crocuta-like jaws like Lakhabrech but with the smaller, sharper claws of the
Rakhebuitya, humans with ursine jaws like the Rakhebuitya but with the sharp
toe claws of the Lakhabrech, etc.

Of course they occasionally find their way upstairs and proceed to shock the
elite with their intelligence and general bloodthirstiness, though the elite
are generally bloodthirstier in trying to hold them down.

Because of the shock of the Earth-Centauri contacts, the current elite are
likely to be the last "pure" City elite - the Earth "visitors" in their
attempt to understand the nature of the Centauri world, are quite disruptive,
hiring only the best, and that includes some very sharp cookies among these
shanty-town inhabitants.

Wesley Parish
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