Definition of a 'chav'

Definition of Chav

The Collins English dictionary defines the word chav as ‘derogatory slang’

It says chav is ‘a young working class person whose tastes, although sometimes expensive, are considered vulgar’

Upper class created chavs.

Plan B – Ill Manors

-          Protesting against the word chav

-          Blaming Politicians and ‘rich people’

-          Bikes

-          Dog muzzles

-          ‘oi what you looking at you little rich boy’

-          They’ve got nothing to do (bored) so gonna go out stabbing people

-          ‘you bloody rich kids never listen’

-          Violence

-          Smoking

-          Drinking

Ill Manors Article

Plan B quotes in an interview ‘I genuinely want to change things’

‘It’s partly about the riots, and the government is in the background, but mostly its about the psychology of class.’

‘when you attack someone because of the way they talk, the way they dress, the music they listen to, or their lack of education, and you do it publicly and its acceptable to do that, you make them feel alienated.

‘For every person who uses the word chav there is a less educated person ready to embrace it.’

‘Ill Manors says if you stereotype people as socially worthless then they will grow into those stereotypes’

-          It can act as a protest song because it can make people aware that the word ‘chav; is derogatory and he wants to change the way people stereotype them ‘THhis is just the first step. Let me make my point first and raise the issue, and then if anybody wants to talk to me about how I think we can change these things im ready.’

-          However, he is being a hypocrite by blaming ‘rich people’ and alienating that class and blaming them for their violence. He is exploiting what they do and showing the public what happens and what these people are like which is making it worse.

Plan B – Ben Drew

He is stating that the reasons for the violence and riots is because Middle England classing them all as ‘chavs’ And they feel in their eyes that society has made it very clear they don’t care about them.

‘Just because you were lucky to be born into a family that can afford to give you a good education doesn’t make you better than anyone, it makes you lucky’

Harry Brown, Ill Manors and Eden Lake are all extremely similar because they all exploit violence, drug abuse and bad language. They all represent the word ‘chav’ by using the stereotypes of their fashion, language and persona. However, Ill manors is trying to show the reasons why they riot and why they have been classed as ‘chavs’ whereas Harry Brown and Eden Lake encode the stereotype and create a film where it may encourage British youth or make people aware of what it’s like.