Trash culture

Trash culture

Trash Culture is a derogatory term for modern culture in the UK and USA. The term is used for labeling the cultural by-products of modernism. These include television, fast-food, mass media, cars, popular music, teenage culture, movies, professional sports, tabloids, comic books, cartoons, shopping malls, amusement parks, carnivals, casinos, supermarkets and the like.

Trash Culture is generally embodied by the lower classes, although it is occasionally championed by those of the upper classes as a way of standing out. It is largely reactionary towards the status quo and upper classes, being characterized by binge drinking, smoking, anti-intellectualism, irresponsible behavior, fashion-conscious youths, ignorant uneducated adults, misbehavior at school, petty crime, organized crime, violence, homophobia, racism and xenophobia. Its greatest social monuments are pub culture and football, and it is perpetuated by peer pressure and the mass media. As the social order loses definition, terms like Trash Culture are becoming less useful in describing day to day reality, but instead reflect a period in history.

ee also

* lower class
* lowbrow


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