Okay but other sociologists agree that chav was never an actual subculture. Nobody identified as one (or very few people did, ironically) it was just something the newspapers made up to demonise white working class people. The fashion, the tracksuits, gold, caps, and trainers, are all staples of young white working class fashion that predate the chav myth by decades.

You say that as if sociologists haven’t said the same thing. Everything that I have said in my explanation is factually correct.

There’s no chavs. Tracksuits, caps and trainers are staples of working class fashion. 80% of young people aren’t “chavs” anymore than people with brown eyes are. You wouldn’t look at all the people in US suburbs wearing plain T shirts and jeans and call it a subculture.

In the UK, the combination of wearing a cap, tracksuit, trainers and a gold chain (or diamond ear stud) is a very popular/normal fashion style among white working class young people. Just like the Koala is a normal part of Australia.

Can’t erase what never existed in the first place, except in the minds of the snobs.

There’s still no evidence chav was ever a subculture. It was always a sneering insult to mock the working class.

You say that like sociologists aren’t saying the same thing.

That doesn’t confirm their existence. A person in a tuxedo can be a twat too, but you wouldn’t use a slur for him, I’m assuming.

Maybe because they don’t? Chavs being a thing was debunked ages ago but some people still think they’re real or want to believe they’re real to justify their classism.

It’s a word/charicature that’s used to demonise white working class people like me and everyone i know. invented by the middle and upperclass media

If you’re going to bring race into it, the cases off the top of my head, including in the cases i linked involved white people…