É pejorativo chamar alguem de redneck nos EUA?
Certa vez um professor meu me traduziu essa palavra com o significado de "caipira".
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Redneck /red.nek/ noun [ C ] mainly US informal
A poor white person without education, especially one living in the countryside in the southern US, who has prejudiced (= unfair and unreasonable) ideas and beliefs
Some synonyms =>
Sense 1) caipira/simplório/rude/rústico etc
- backwoods man/woman/person
- Bumpkin/provincial
- hillbilly
Sense 2) obstinado/teimoso/quadrado/obsoleto/arcaico/ultrapassado
- Inflexible/die-hard/orthodox/obstinate/unchanging/fogyish/unprogressive/traditionalistic/guarded/conservative etc...
Generally pejorative, at least 99.99% of the times.
Ref. Cambridge Dictionary
A poor white person without education, especially one living in the countryside in the southern US, who has prejudiced (= unfair and unreasonable) ideas and beliefs
Some synonyms =>
Sense 1) caipira/simplório/rude/rústico etc
- backwoods man/woman/person
- Bumpkin/provincial
- hillbilly
Sense 2) obstinado/teimoso/quadrado/obsoleto/arcaico/ultrapassado
- Inflexible/die-hard/orthodox/obstinate/unchanging/fogyish/unprogressive/traditionalistic/guarded/conservative etc...
Generally pejorative, at least 99.99% of the times.
Ref. Cambridge Dictionary