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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What's to get? "Ghetto" is slang for "cheap" or "low class." Ghetto kids used to use it to describe shit. Suburban white kids picked up on it and now love it. I suppose they get to be offensive without really being offensive since the word, used that way, is so accepted as slang now. Hipsters must have embraced it as well. I think it's unbelievably stupid and almost slapped my cousin when she used it around me the first time years ago.
Long story longer, hipster #1 is saying the place and the person he was visiting was low class because (i) he didn't bother to clean up and/or (ii) he had cheap, low class taste. Hipster #2, possibly wondering if the last time he had Mountain Dew everyone around him considered him ghetto as well, wanted clarification on whether Mountain Dew consumption in and of itself signaled ghettoness.
TM
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What's the ruling on the use of "trailer park" (the flyover state equivalent of "ghetto")?
