Meghan Markles Dad

None of us know the history of this relationship except what had been mediated to us by various news items & magazine articles. We can all surmise, take sides, base our feelings on our personal experience etc etc but we do not know the truth. So I am not wasting any more time on the issue..it is not mine to worry about.

Fair enough Ism64 thought you would condemn referring to people as trailer trash , in fairness to Chewbacca she was quoting the American press, May I suggest you look up the definition of trailer trash, I did.

I do know the definition of trailer trash Annie. And I think, on this occasion, it's apt.

Then Chewbacca you knew it can be considered to fall in the category of racial/ethnic slurs ?

Chewbacca - yes I totally agree with you, it matters not a jot that MM's choice of career was as an actor. She seems to have been a very successful actor and gone on to develop her profile by speaking well on international issues.
My reference to Nell Gwynn was merely the suggestion that some of those criticising MM seemed to see her in the same negative way that NG was seen. There have even been comparisons between MM and Wallace Simpson.
I'm off now - got a murder mystery to read.

Nothing to do with race; nor ethnicities Annie as I suspect you know. This, from Urban Dictionary, sums it up:

Annoying
loud mouths
dirty houses and clothes
greasy hair
their kids are out of control
lazy

Colour and ethnicity are irrelevant.

Not what I read * Chewbacca*

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_trash

I don't look at Wikipedia much Annie and on this occasion, Urban Dictionary pretty much sums up what the US slant on this non story is. Sorry to have disagreed with you Annie, I've never disagreed with you before but, as I said upthread, I've some experience of family estrangement and I can understand a bit about how MM must be feeling about her own family.

Anyway, I sincerely wish you a Very Merry Christmas Anniebach.

I have a very dear cousin who, with her father, emigrated to US as a teen after her mum died. My great uncle, her dad, was a retired lawyer based in Nazareth and then Jaffa. They lived on a trailer park in Nth Hollywood. She married a train driver and they raised their two kids there. She and her DH are very respectable church attenders and community involved people so do not fit the description of 'trailer trash'.
In the same way that all those in social housing are not 'chavvy'.

Both are derogatory term and not pleasant but sadly we all know what they mean!

Chewbacca I luvs you x

Just to point out a factual issue, someone in an earlier post described Samantha Markle as Meghan Markle's 'step-sister'. In fact they are half-sisters as they have the same biological father (Thomas Markle Senior).

And it shows StillGame