What exactly is Eurotrash? I've heard this term several times in the last few years and just don't get it. Of course, I know it's not a good term. I recently heard some FAs referring to passengers as "Eurotrash".

Eurotrash, in my book, are basically people that fit into the British soccer hooligan crowd or come out of Russian mob gang.

For the FAs, it probably means European girls who are far better looking and better dressed than they are.

For some of the world it is the chain-smoking, dressed in black wannabe-European crowd that is not European really.

definitions vary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...=eurotrash&f=1

In the US, reactionary opera fans (those who want everything done as lavishly and as old-fashioned as possible) use the label "Eurotrash" for any production that dares to deviate from their powdered-wig and brocade & lace norm (because this form of static, stilted stage production often involves very-well-fed singers, these productions are often said to be from the "Park-and-Bark" school).

While there are plenty of cases of directorial exccess (the Calixto Bietio 'Ballo In Baschera' which opens with fourteen men sitting on toilets in the Parliament lavatory being a controversial example) the work of the greatest European opera directors (Konwitschny, Neuenfels, Decker, Flimm, Wieler & Morabito, to name a few) offers searing dramatic insights while working within the framework of the music.

It's hard to imagine the cobweb-infested Metropolitan Opera hiring Lars von Trier to produce Wagner's Ring, as the 80-year-old Wolfgang Wagner (grandson of Richard himself) is doing in 2006.



[This message has been edited by Non-NonRev (edited Feb 16, 2004).]

Originally the term was created by very choosy and snob gays while cruising and observing men walking by.

It became a game for them to label the people.

The typical Eurotrash is a guy weary too wide shorts and an out of fashion T-shirt with no label, socks and sandals, carrying his rucksack with the belt locked at the front. The typical tourist...

All variations were created after that once the "straights" took up the term.

... are you sure about that, and, if so, what years was that in approximately?

I'm the last person to be an expert on matters gay (just envious, sometimes) but I did find this via Google:

http://www.blairmag.com/blair3/gaydar/gaydar.html

Seinfeld had a great episode (weren't they all?) where Elaine tells a sales clerk to take her "eurotrash" and put it where the sun don't shine. Or something like that. But she does refer to the clerk's behavior as eurotrash. Pretty funny stuff. I guess you had to be there.

I think I am one

landspeed:
Thanks for posting this link to www.urbandictionary.com. I bookmarked it!

Originally (and pre-Gay) Eurotrash was the term in the late 70's - early 80's describing all sorts of younger aristocratic and semi-aristocratic people that descended on NY. While these people were well mannered and had "euro" accents, they effectively were sitting out events such as the turbulence in Spain at the time, the socialist revolution in France and other turbulent events back home that were going to effect their families money/status. They effectively lazed around and did nothing but go to clubs. They did however dress well and vacation in wonderful places.

Thanks for all your enthusiastic replies. I'm glad to learn eurotrash really isn't a term of derision. When I first heard it I thought it was akin to white trash or trailer trash, both hurtful terms(I think).

hfly, how are you so intimately familiar with the Eurotrash crowd?

It's a British TV show. One of the best ever made.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainmen...ash/index.html

Britain's very own special type of Euro Trash:

http://www.chavscum.co.uk