Not a Brit but I’m pretty confident “Chav” is not a synonym for “working class”.
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They keep posting this idea that "chav = working class".
They either have an agenda or a mental problem.
Also American, and know damn well that chav /= working class.
Not a brit
Also American
You arent implying everyone is from the Freedomland, are you?
It's not. It's a way to denigrate those in low income areas.
You're right that Britain has a big issue with classism and there's lots negative stereotypes about working class people. But 'chav' is a term for a specific subculture within working class British culture. Most people I know who hate 'chavs' are working class people who have to interact with them regularly. It's like if you were claiming that anyone talking about 'thugs' and 'gangstas' were hating on working class black Americans.
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Chav does not mean "working class people" and is not a "slur".
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You've got to be the same person with the chav fetish looking for a "polite" chav synonym for your romantic interests and then attacking people.
If you don't like that word, don't use it so much.
Manipulation for politics. You will become like the USA whether you like it or not. This is how it starts.
A super all-star politician will start saying how they are "for the people" as they consume your humanity and turn out shit-life that is never and will never actually be for the people.
Quit posting this nonsense under different accounts.
Chav is NOT a derogatory term for working class folks.
This is what I'm going to reply every time you post this garbage.
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines chav as “an insulting word for someone, usually a young person, whose way of dressing, speaking, and behaving is thought to show their lack of education and low social class.”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/chav
It's based on behaviour.
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