I gotta ask you this though: is ONLY some african-Americans in your community who do that or also others of other races? In my community there are many ppl of all races. There are whites latinos, asians blacks and mixed.
In general less educated ppl are the tougher they act I noticed.
Whites who are poor do it too but not in the SAME WAY as blacks.
The way whites who are less educated act tough is by drving around in humongos pick up trucks at 90mph on the freeway and 50 mph in the city streets, They act mean, they drink 2 packs at night and go around insulting nonwhites in the area and looking at nonwhites like they wat to murder them. Trust me its not THAT much better either. And their grammar sucks also.
Asians who are less educated just whine a lot and smoke pack after pack of cigs and litter the place and urinate in public.
Latinos who are less educated go after any female walking around, pull out a knife at any occasion and love to speak the ugliest spanish slang possible espcially in front of gabaxhos.
So what happens is the less educated ppl of ANY race are the more likely they might act stupid and badly just to piss off ppl around them.
Acting tough in a bad area is a defense thing though too. If you are smart and show it too much in those areas you are likely to be beat up or treated like a fag especially if you live around gangs and bad guys. When you live in those areas you HAVE to act tough and mean and even a bit stupid just to survive.
So if the guys you are talking about come from those places then its no wonder. After a while its habit too.
The reason I know is I live in those kinds of places.
It doesn't mean all the people I am talking about are stupid but in some areas you have even to pretend to be stupid to survive and after a while the way you talk an d behave kind of sticks with you unfortunately.
Me I have learned to switch back and forth between the two but when I talk on the forum for example I don't always watch my grammar either because i usually don't have to do that where I live. But when I want to post something important or when I write my papers then I do watch out.
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