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Originally Posted by kool maudit
No? I'd say it can be kind of... honoured in the breach. Rosary beads on a —'s dresser, drinking alcohol with your boys and rolling the kuffar walking through Rinkeby Torg. Almost like the dutiful nuclear families of Hornstull and the Annex. Signifiers and lives have complex relationships.
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It seems more realistic in the historical sense, when reliance on the group was much stronger and involved higher stakes than what we see today. For at least the last 50 years you haven't really had to profess allegiance to any kind of group cultural values to access the essentials. The government provides that for you without any judgment concerning what you are doing with your private life.
When I think of the underclass these days, things like teenage pregnancy, children out of wedlock, abortions, non-married relationships, alcohol/drug use, etc. are what come to mind. There is no "rosary beads on a —'s dresser" required pretext of social conservative values the way one might have seen in Dublin circa 1932, for instance.
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