This is a good read. I suggest FReepers click the link and read it.
e.g.,
"But the main thing that sets the modern poor apart from the industrial age pauper is a sheer lack of interest in education. Today's proletariat has little education and no interest in obtaining more. Back in the early days of industrialization, the poor joined worker associations that often doubled as educational associations. The modern member of the underclass, by contrast, has completely shunned personal betterment.
He likewise makes little effort to open the door to the future for his own children. Their language skills are as bad as their ability to concentrate. The rising rate of illiteracy is matched by the shrinking opportunities to integrate the underclass. The Americans, not ones to mince words, call them "white trash.""
The same logic could be applied to much of our own underclass. The same deindustiralization, combined with the welfare state and lack of interest in education, characterizes much of our inner cities.
They seem to be describing a class more akin to the British "chavs" than the American "white trash."
You don't seem to understand...Sports and entertainment is far more important than an actual education in either the professions or technical fields.
Bread and circuses.....the downfall of Rome!