I know this has been a recent fascination over this subject.
I am just curious WHEN this fad started?
If you want to answer that question, then , if you want, you could tell me exactly WHY ?(or what to it) Because I know these people being considered Chavs have been here for longer than the past five years. It is not like they immigrated here or anything.
2007-01-21 03:51:15 · 6 answers · asked by Nicholus J 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It all started with a website called chavscum.com about 5 or 6 years ago - basically its a term that comes from essex i think originally, but go anywhere and there's a name given by middle class people for working class people - in liverpool they're called scallies for example.
Its basically a means for white middle class kids to take out their resentment at not being born working class and therefore having something of meaning in their lives. Its pretty nasty really, but the papers and magazines took the term on, and there you go.
2007-01-21 03:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by jj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They sort of began in the early 90's and became numerous by the late 90's. I remember a lot of them when I was starting at Uni in 2000. They only really got in the news over the last few years.
The word was added to dictionaries in 2005.
2007-01-21 11:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, exactly, are "Chavs"? I'm from the USA and I try to keep up on current events but haven't heard about this. Is it an event? a fashion style? a lifestyle? Political style?
2007-01-21 12:05:46 · answer #3 · answered by Suzan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a teenager in the mid 80s, descriptions such as NED (non-educated delinquent) and schemies (those who lived in housting estates) were abound, both similar to the 90s CHAV.
They wore Kappa tracksuits and trainers (no hoodies back then), and hing about shopping centres.
2007-01-21 12:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by catrina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I first heard the term in 1998. This was in SE England, and I only heard about it from local people, nothing national. So it may have started in my area, I don't know.
Their style developed like any other, and runs parallel to their social position of the struggling underclass. Their tasteless chunky jewellery can be explained by two things - their desire to be rich, and their stupidity in thinking that this cheap crap they wear makes them look rich. They're usually tw@ts.
2007-01-21 11:55:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
neds av bin round 4 ages but wen wane rooneys misses came about people started finkin twas kl dunno y its not nd now ts all chavet this blah blah blah
2007-01-21 11:57:59 · answer #6 · answered by flazu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋