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Do most Brits still think chav was/is an actual subculture? (lemmy.world)
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I remember an assignment we had was reading Chavs by Owen Jones, and based on that book it seems like sociologists agree that chav was never a subculture, it was the upper classes taking ordinary working class young people fashion and turned it into a made up, monstrous delinquent subculture to paint the working class people as bad or something. Owen Jones said it was not a subculture and nobody unironically identified as a chav. It was purely a classist insult.

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago

SHUT UP ABOUT CHAVS, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KEEP ASKING THIS QUESTION FOR? EVERY WEEK WITH THIS SHIT.