slummers
Slum area visitors
Slummers are people who visit places or engage in activities considered beneath their usual social station, often for entertainment or curiosity.
The term typically carries a note of condescension—implying the visitor treats poverty or roughness as a spectacle: The bar filled with slummers from uptown looking for an authentic experience.
A slummer goes slumming.
Exclusive right or benefit
- elitesPrivileged powerful groups
- aristocratsHereditary ruling class
- wealthyHaving abundant financial resources
- upper-classSocially and economically privileged
condescension · classism · status · bourgeois · affluent · patronizing · tourists · outsiders
Staring stupidly, openly
- rubberneckingStaring at spectacles curiously
- curiosityDesire to learn
- thrill-seekingPursuing excitement through risk
- oglingStaring with desire
sightseeing · exploitation · exoticism · othering · condescension · entertainment · titillation · schadenfreude
Countercultural trend-chasers
- artistsMakers of creative works
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- newcomersThose recently arrived
- yuppiesMaterialistic city professionals
trendsetters · colonizers · developers · speculators · displacement · renovation · revitalization · lofts
privilege
Exclusive right or benefit
- elitesPrivileged powerful groups
- aristocratsHereditary ruling class
- wealthyHaving abundant financial resources
upper-class · condescension · classism · status · bourgeois · affluent · patronizing · tourists · outsiders · interlopers
gawking
Staring stupidly, openly
- rubberneckingStaring at spectacles curiously
- curiosityDesire to learn
- thrill-seekingPursuing excitement through risk
ogling · sightseeing · exploitation · exoticism · othering · condescension · entertainment · titillation · schadenfreude · privilege
hipsters
Countercultural trend-chasers
yuppies · trendsetters · colonizers · developers · speculators · displacement · renovation · revitalization · lofts · galleries
slummersresidents
People living somewhere
locals · natives · inhabitants · community members · denizens
slummerssocial climbers
Those seeking higher status
arrivistes · strivers · upwardly mobile · aspirants · parvenus
slummerscommunity organizers
Those mobilizing local collective action
aid workers · activists · working class · advocates · volunteers