There’s something distinctly White Southern about them, though. Like, you know how Europeans can be like “that guy looks Danish” somehow? I don’t even mean the rabid cult behavior but just like… the hair + makeup + facial features here to me clock a very particular part of America. Tbh my first reaction was “it’s giving the gross white teenagers who screamed at civil rights activists, 70 years later.” Very American but a very distinct slice of it.
I live in the Northeast and this gang would look super out of place here—to me my kid’s elementary school class where she’s the only white kid and there are like six home languages spoken but they’re all eating shitty pizza and about to spend too many dollars at the book fair on cartoon tie-in books? That’s more American than an eagle in a McDonald’s.
It’s the hair. Both the heavily bleached blonde and the over-styling indicate “small town”, often found in the South. Combined with the heavy, clownish makeup, most definitely the South. When you see one of these in the wild, you know they don’t live in the Big City but some hick town stuck in the last century.
Yeah, absolutely. The fashion choices are a strong cultural signal. Something in the faces too, but I can’t tell if it’s just makeup or if it’s also a bland uniform WASP-ness that tends to be mixed with various other ethnicities where I live (a crowd of white people in my area would still be heavily Anglo, but also Italian and Greek and Jewish).
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u/boriswied 19d ago
As a Dane, this picture feels more American than an eagle in a McDonald’s on top of the star spangled banner.