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honestly i’m kind of sick of everyone ‘making fun of the british’ but it literally being just the working class and often poc
gonna make this a thread explaining why and what is actually harmful and extremely classist
gonna make this a thread explaining why and what is actually harmful and extremely classist
first of all the issue isn’t people disliking the british but it’s very often due to things that are prominent in the working class and BAME communities, rather than actually valid reasoning
ok so the whole ‘chav’ thing and ‘chav accents’ are extremely classist to say and make jokes about if you aren’t working class. most of these accents are stereotypes come from the north of england which has so much poverty, esp due to thatcher
the ‘chav slang’ which is also constantly mocked is usually always language that came from poc overall but mainly black communities. as a whole most of the slang comes from immigrants. a great example is ‘bruv’ and which is MLE and jamaican patois
sticking to accents, the english accents that consistently get praised, esp in make celebrities, are all posh and middle/ upper class accents. meanwhile these same people praising these happily make fun of the chav accent, which is again inherently classist
as well as this the food jokes are almost always extremely classist even if that isn’t the intention. e.g. ‘beans on toast’ is consistently mocked in degrading ways. many people of the working class/ in poverty can literally only afford foods like that and don’t-
-get a choice. ive seen people saying things such as ‘prison food’ or ‘i’d rather die than eat that’ which to reiterate is extremely insensitive and classist
i’m gonna end this here cause there’s so many more things i could point out e.g. clothing, appearances etc. however, these are easily some of the biggest issues rn and i think it’s important we actually talk about it
also i would like to just say i’m working class, a poc and live in the north and ik exactly how these things would affect me if i was still like 12 seeing them online. so please think next time
