Redneck: Encyclopedia II - Redneck - Related terms

Redneck - Related terms

Redneck - Australia

The term "Redneck" is also often used in Australia to describe individuals of Anglo-Celtic heritage living in rural or highland regions.

Redneck - Barbados

"Poor whites" in Barbados (descendants largely of seventeenth century English, Scottish, and Irish indentured servants and deportees) were called Red Legs. Many of these families moved to Virginia and the Carolinas as large sugar plantations replaced small tobacco farming.

Redneck - Brazil

The term Caipira is used to define inhabitants from the countryside of southeastern Brazilian states (chiefly rural, and descendents of Japanese, Portuguese and Italian immigrants), which are considered the Brazilian counterparts of American rednecks. Depending of how the word is applied, it can acquire pejorative conotation. The most pejorative ways to call a Caipira are "capial" (kha-pee-aw), intentionally mispronounced "capiar" (kha-pee-arr), as a Caipira supposedely would do, and Jeca (zhe-kah).

Redneck - Chile

The term Huaso is used to describe people who work or inhabit the rural sectors of the country. They are described as wearing a poncho, straw hat and cowboy boots.

Redneck - North America

The term farmer tan is sometimes used to refer to a sunburn, particularly when the sunburned area covers the neck and arms of the person only. This can also refer to a suntan covering the same area.

Redneck - South Africa

In South Africa, the Afrikaans term rooinek (meaning "redneck") was derisively applied by Afrikaners to the British soldiers who fought during the Boer Wars, because their skin was sensitive to the harsh African sun. The phrase is still used by Afrikaners to describe English-speaking white people.

Ironically, the term "redneck" is also used by the English to describe very conservative Afrikaners because of that group's historic support of apartheid, a system of white, minority power and privilege and black and "coloured" exploitation and disenfranchisement, possibly by analogy to the American usage described above.

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