It’s not an ethnic thing, it’s a poverty thing
We all have those members of our own social, ethnic or subculture groups that somehow manage to make us cringe in our embarrassment for them. Mexicans & Mexican-Americans may sheepishly laugh at the “nacos“; while African-Americans might laugh and roll their eyes at the “ghetto” folk; Asians at the FOBs; and the white people at the PWTs, notably “ethnic” groups, or maybe WASPs. On some level, I wonder if our tendency to notice the flamboyance of certain people of “our kind” indicates a deeper embarrassment for ourselves as viewed through the eyes of another group. In any case, usually those people that tend to embarrass the collective “us” are people a little poorer or less advantaged than “we” are, probably a little less clued in to the way
