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Originally Posted by Rabid Sea Turtles
What would you call someone that was african american and fitted chav material?
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They'd still be a chav, everybody who says they'd be something else would be wrong! There are loads of black chavs and asian chavs around Birmingham too. Its not individual ethnicity that's the issue, its more to do with where you were brought up and who you were surrounded by. If you're black or indian and grew up in a chavvy area then you may well become a chav. If you grew up somewhere else then you probably won't. Gangsta, however, isn't the same because:
a) Chavs don't necessarily have anything to do with gangs
b) The clothing they wear, although it fits under 'sportswear' isn't the same type. Gangsta clothing uses a lot of basketball clothes, chav clothing generally doesn't. Chav clothing uses some football clothes but mostly its non-sport clothing made by a sports brand (and bought from JJB or somehwhere like that) - by non-sport I mean you wouldn't want to use it for competitive sport because its not designed for performance.
So 'ganstas' don't generally fit 'chav material'.
To really be a chav, as far as I know, you do have to be British, or at least live in Britain or be from Britain. Why? Because that's where the chavs are, so its the only way to pick up true chav culture!