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Do people still label people in tracksuits and trainers as Chavs, or has the word stopped being used? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day 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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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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