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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Is that a thing? Do people actually do that?
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As others have mentioned, it's not an overt thing like Nelson pointing and going HAHA every time they see a blue collar worker. It's more the mentality of looking down on blue collar for no reason.
"Stay in school or look like those guys."
"I wouldn't date a blue collar"
"A blue collar guy is a guy who probably couldn't pass his classes in school and had to settle being a janitor."
"Blue collar people are generally uneducated"
etc.
Until the craft brewery scene started growing here, I even used to hear people say that beer was a blue collar drink, not like wine and spirits which were more sophisticated.
Some people are weird, but sometimes I noticed some of those making the loudest statements are those that actually came from a family heavily soaked in the blue collar background... like they're ashamed their roots are from small town Alberta or Saskatchewan or something.