I have to do this project about reading and my target audience is Chavs. I need to find a way to pursuade them to read books.
2006-11-03 01:12:19 · 25 answers · asked by Escobar 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Nip down to your local Chav library and you see the sort of things they read; current favourites include:
- "How to mug people in the street in two easy steps"
- "Vauxhall Novas and their sound systems"
and
- "A Brief History of Bling"
Chavs can be encourage to read more books by keeping books under lock and key, if they have to steal to get the book Chavs are more likely to at least get near them.
Whether Chavs can actually read is a whole 'nother question...
2006-11-03 01:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by sarcasticquotemarks 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As others have done, I would have to question whether chavs can read at all. Surely they just open the Argos catalogue to the Elizabeth Duke jewellery page and point a grubby finger at the most crass and unfashionable item therein?
2006-11-03 02:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by bingo 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Franz Kafka? James (no...not from Salford) Baldwin? George Orwell?
You've lost me - if you are serious about the project, it would be good to read sociological write-ups/essays about classes over the past 20 years, as I fear you'll get nowt but thin air if you require such weighty answers on here - perhaps the magazines (Heat/Nuts - etc) would be a good starter, as the prose thereof has the form and waves your subject might desire to read.
2006-11-03 01:36:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They read Jordans auto biography and think its a timeless master piece.
Oh and Heat magazine (got to keep up with the latest chav fashion from the likes of Chantelle & Preston etc)
2006-11-03 01:21:04 · answer #4 · answered by Georgie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They read the Argos catalogue, Daily Star and Heat magazine!
Seriously though, I'd start the Irvine Welsh type fiction, with subjects that they can identify with - social housing, drugs, unemployment, petty crime issues.
Maybe then they will also see their lives from an outsiders point of view and look to change it for the better. Trisha is far too busy to deal with them all!
2006-11-03 01:28:03 · answer #5 · answered by angelina.rose 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Didn't know they could read at all.. So maybe something with lots of pictures and easy-to-read words. A comic might work? Or just a book filled with only pictures. Long complicated words will make them go out and collect another ASBO in frustration or something..
2006-11-03 01:17:28 · answer #6 · answered by Ollie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
chavs and read,you used those 2 words in the same sentence,how could you?
2006-11-03 01:18:04 · answer #7 · answered by Pat R 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I didn't realise that they could read! Wow! I've learnt something new today. I guess you get them to start off in small steps by reading the conditions of their ASBO or maybe the care lab le on their Burberry imitation clothing.
2006-11-03 01:23:23 · answer #8 · answered by Luce_girl 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Argos catalogue
2006-11-03 01:25:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of the chavs can't read.so it would probably be better if you got them some nice picture books on car thieving thuggery etc
2006-11-03 02:38:18 · answer #10 · answered by briangimma 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋