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A defense - and celebration - of all things 'Tacky'

NPR's Book of the Day

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What's the Deal With Jersey Shore?

When a rich, real housewife does something incredibly tacky, in the back of your head, you can count as lab that's a wink in a nod. And it feels like some people are given more of the benefit of the doubt. When someone poor, or someone not that dosa think it's considered tacky, you just assume inherently, the worse that it is a deficiency. I mean, my dad kept me tethered to the earth. He started calling me every week after jersey shore was over and annotating an episode for me on the phone. Those phone calls were a real life line to me.

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