My grandfather has a missing finger as well.. and when we were little kids he would tell us to hold our hand out, and he would then tickle our hand with the stump of his finger.. he enjoyed seeing us grossed out...
No, I don't think money changes the intrinsic value of a person, but sociologically 'rural' people have class systems like everyone else, and money (or land or power etc) is often part of the equation. When I lived in rural Nebraska there were two families that owned most of the land around us and they were the top dogs. But it was relative because the poorer first generation immigrants in the local little town thought we were impressive .
Are you kidding? The rural folks are the lucky ones and mainly considered privileged. It's the inner city that is snobbishly looked down upon. Is your neighborhood referred to as hood? Did it used to be referred to as ghetto? Funny, I'm the product of a farmer's daughter and a city boy who had 8 kids they couldn't afford. Have lived everything from the projects to my mother's hometown which was so small K-12 under one roof. I've heard hick and country bumpkin but never have I heard them referred to as trash.
That was just a statement of the way things are without judgment as to right or wrong. America is horrible for worshipping money. Don't think so? Try being poor here.
