Reddit reviews Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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Short books. Easy to read. Fucking eye opening.

Well, at least here in Britain it has quite a classist connotation. You find these upper middle class people just spouting the word around for anyone that doesn't speak perfect (or their version) of English, is generally poorer (working class), and now it has become associated with someone who scrounges off benefits. As you can see from the definition, it's pejorative - I just think that all it does is deepen the divide between haves and have nots...

An excellent book I would recommend is:


Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784783773/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_gQSmxb7WDTNC8

i've just read a very interesting book Chavs, so trying now make sense of that.

before i thought that this word is about those guys who step out of a dark place and ask "do you have a cigarette?", if you say "no", they take your iphone. but it seems that "chavs" is about any people from underprivileged areas, not just hooligans.

i've never been in the UK, but what is written in that book seems horrible. is it true that British middle class is still so chauvinistic that they hate their fellow citizens for being different? or the author just exaggerates? but still, even in this subreddit most jokes about "chavs" would be called racist, if "chavs" would be replaced with "jews" or "blacks".