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I'm from England and these are all English people. my town is swarming with them but idk what this type is called so idk what to say i'm into lol
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I don't know what you're into, but those are chavs
"chavs" is a classist slur against the working class and it doesn't answer my question
Quite right too. What you're attracted to is "infant gangster chic", or "playground hard-man cosplay". No need to bring slurs into it.
It's not, and you're not helping yourself by pretending
https://theconversation.com/married-at-first-sight-shows-the-classist-2000s-insult-chav-hasnt-left-britains-cultural-conversation-242637
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavs:_The_Demonization_of_the_Working_Class
it absolutely is. it even stands for "council housed and violent"
No it doesn't. That's 100% a backronym.
Chav is a romani loan-word - the original word means 'boy'.
Older people call them 'yobs', which coincidentally also comes from the word 'boy'.
The vast majority of working class people are not chavs - chavs are unpleasant subset. Nobody needs to dress in expensive clothes and act like miscreants.
that's like someone saying "the vast majority of black people are not n-words" it's still a classist slur
So are you attracted to chavs or aren't you? You never actually said.
I think he is attracted to chavs, yes.
i'm not attracted to a slur
I dont think anybody here thought you were attracted to words. What about the people?
Anyway, it's still not a slur.
https://theconversation.com/married-at-first-sight-shows-the-classist-2000s-insult-chav-hasnt-left-britains-cultural-conversation-242637
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavs:_The_Demonization_of_the_Working_Class
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav#Etymology