what does it mean?

[cos]

Please comment on this post before you read anyone else's comments.

This weekend, I saw a bumper sticker that said,
Straight, White, English-Speaking
Proud American
For a moment, I was offended ... then I started thinking of several different possible intentions, meanings, and contexts for this slogan. After a bit of confusion, I settled on curiosity. What does it mean? What did the people who sold it intend for it to convey, and what did the person who put it on their car intend to say by it? I can think of several different possibilities or nuances, and maybe there are more.

So tell me, what do you read in this bumper sticker slogan? And if, like me, you see several possibilities, which one came first, before you thought about it?

Comments

Re: prejudices and reactions in reflection

[cos]

Since your post interests me, I took the time to count. I went through those first 80 comments (which, it turns out, covers all but one of the people who commented) and tried to judge each one in terms of your claim above, that I was initially reacting to here:
70 people decided that this person was bigoted and/or a jerk without any evidence except this sticker

First of all, when people make assumptions about what this sticker means, they're not doing it purely from what the sticker says and nothing else. Their assumptions come from putting the sticker in a cultural context, which involves a lot of other information. Your reaction to the sticker also comes from putting it in a cultural context, as you described in your first comment. So even if someone does jump to the wrong conclusion, there's more going into that conclusion than you imply. However, I want to simplify this and wave all that aside - let's forget about context for a moment, and just look at the comments and whether or not they jump to the kind of conclusion you saw in them.
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