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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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In my early twenties. I live on a council estate and walking outside in a trackie, some Nikes and a baseball cap is just the most popular fashion amongst the working class population. The Chav thing, from my understanding, is a twisted caricature of that plus there was this narrative that said twisted caricature of popular working class street fashion was this bad subculture. In reality there’s no Chav subculture and it was a myth to scapegoat the working class. But I am wondering now, do people still see people like me and assume we are Chavs?

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is your obsession with the word Chav?

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's a word/charicature that's used to demonise white working class people like me and everyone i know. invented by the middle and upperclass media

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago

You appear on here every few weeks talking about Chav this and Chav that, everyone comments, rightfully, that it's nothing to do with working class people, you get defensive and ultimately the whole thread gets deleted.

As soon as I saw the post title I knew it would be you.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's definitely stopped, as to me it looks like the white hoodlums from yesteryear would rather just go play football with the black hoodlums from yesteryear, after the Chav/RudeBoi truce of 2006 was cemented into parliament.

Plus the image of underage smoking is gone as vapes have now softened that 'hard man culture to kids toys, and the cities themselves have become too expensive for council estates to have these rough subcultures.

So high five to gentrification, loss of opportunity, poverty and anti-immigration sentiment fusing the working class into racial harmony, and other glaringly eye-brow raising sentiments I can make

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago

But I am wondering now, do people still see people like me and assume we are Chavs?

Do you also wear ostentatious jewellery and act aggressively towards people in public? If not, then no.

If so, maybe if they're of a certain age that will be the word that comes to mind. Probably not if they're younger - but they might think you're a dickhead for acting like that.