Are The Terms Working Class And Chav Synonymous?

[mushroom25]

according to Bristol University they are.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3834576/University-cheerleading-team-cancels-chav-themed-night-right-students-moaned-appropriating-working-class-culture.html

is "cultural misappropriation" the new racism?

[RandyMarsh]

This is my favourite piece of cultural misappropriation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyVBQ4PypA

[Marshwarble]

Surely you need to be young to be a chav for a start?

[Cloverjo]

Sorry if I come across as snobby. I come from a working class family. We are definitely not chavs. I agree with belladonner.

[Tilly2]

Same here, Clover.

[Cloverjo]

By the way, I was once on benefits as a single mother, but I wasn't a chav then, either.

[woofgang]

well Bristol Uni is wrong then.

[woofgang]

oh a "Equality, Liberation and Access Officer” says it....then of course it must be right!

[zebo]

Cultural misappropriation is the current go to phrase, apparently if I make spag bol I am guilty as I'm not Italian. Where does that leave Yorkshire puddings, I'm a Lancastrian? Hopefully they'll invent another buzz word soon.

[mikey4444]

No, I don't think they are. The term "Chav" is used only as a term of abuse, whereas Working Class is not.

[hereIam]

I always think of Katie Price as a chav.

[mikey4444]

It might help here, to understand how the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word "Chav" :::::::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

[mikey4444]

I am not sure about Katie Price, ( is she the one with the large chest ! )
but Vicky Pollard always seems the very embodiment of Chav :::

[CrapAtCryptics]

I used to be working class till my recent retirement and, as I dont own a single Burberry item, I dont think I was ever chav material.

[hereIam]

Yes Vicky Pollard is definitely a chav.

[mikey4444]

At least we agree about one thing then hereIam !

[gulliver1]

Chav = Council House And Violent. Not my words and not my thoughts, I was brought up in a council house, but not violent.

[ToraToraTora]

no I'd say chav and non working class are synonymous.

[webbo3]

Another group of people that we cant poke fun at.

\\The Bristol University Cheerleading Society was set to host a chav night, but one of the cheerleaders complained that the theme could be seen as an appropriation of working class culture.//

I bet shes a barrel of laughs.


I live in Bristol and ive no doubt that the student will be behaving like chavs every weekend, getting very drunk and generally mis-behaving.


Dave.