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Generally, Chavs spend most of their time unemployed but still manage to get hold of the latest trainers, have plenty of cigarettes and generally succeed in drinking to their heart’s content. Unfortunately, the negative connotations surrounding the term have led to many people using it as an insult – regardless of whether or not that was their intention. There is no question, however, that whiteness is an assumed and essential facet of Chav identity. Explorations of class and consumption may help to clarify this muddy conceptualisation of ethnicity and Chavs. Chavs as “Wrong” Working Class Chav-Spotting in Britain: The Representation of Social Class as Private Choice." Social Semiotics 23.1 (2013): 146-162.

Atkinson, Michael; Young, Kevin (18 June 2008). Tribal play: subcultural journeys through sport. Emerald Group Publishing. p.265. ISBN 978-0-7623-1293-1. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013 . Retrieved 12 August 2011. Stop use of 'Chav' – think tank". BBC News. 16 July 2008. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009 . Retrieved 13 April 2012. Luke: Those earrings always scare me, I think they’re gonna get caught in something. I look at them and think, that’s a walking health hazard!A BBC TV documentary suggested that chav culture is an evolution of previous working-class youth subcultures associated with particular commercial clothing styles, such as mods, skinheads, and casuals. [20] Gangsta rapper, main photo left, who rants tiresomely about guns, ghettos and bitches. Chavs love all his bling and the prison tattoos. He also grabs his groin every 30 seconds while on stage. Brian Harvey Foucault, Michel. “The Subject and Power." Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Eds. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. Brighton: Harvester, 1982. 777-795.

The importance of consumption choices and, more specifically, of choices which are considered to be "wrong" adds one final piece to this map of the Chav (Mason and Wigley). What was already noted as discrimination towards Chavs centred upon notions of class, socioeconomic status, and, ethnicity, is amplified by emphasis on consumption choices deemed to be aesthetically undesirable. This all comes together through the “Othering” of a pattern of consumerist choices that encompasses branded clothes, sportswear and other garments typically labelled as "chavvy". Chav: Not Always a Label This piece is not intended to debate whether or not Chav is a subculture, clubculture or neotribe. Although Greg Martin’s discussion around the similarities between historical subcultures and Chavs remains pertinent and convincing, this article discusses how young people labelled as Chavs are excluded on a variety of fronts. It draws a cross-disciplinary mapping of the Chav, providing the beginnings of a definition of a derogatory label, applied to young people marking them anomalous in British society. What Is a Chav? Dent, Susie (2004). Larpers and shroomers: the language report. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861012-0. For Autumn/Winter 2017 Vetements put out a collection that championed stereotypes across the world, notably in Western culture. One of these was the chav. What was noticeable though about the image the brand put down the catwalk was that it is exactly how people are dressing today – so-called chav or not. @ Tyler Nix via Unsplash

By 2004, the word was used in national newspapers and common parlance in the UK. Susie Dent's Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report, published by the Oxford University Press, designated it as the "word of the year" [29] in 2004. [30]