EDIT - my background was simply inspired by ‘420bandobaby’s room, hence the hammer and sickle, i’m still reading up on both communism and socialism and still deciding where my core beliefs lie! (but obviously abolish capitalism xxx) don't forget to follow my instagram & twitter - @jordanatheresa time stamps - 00:00 - intro 02:24 - gentrification 07:00 - the rise of 'super gentrification' 10:00 - the impact of gentrification 16:51 - the grenfell tower tragedy 21:55 - the working class 'aesthetic'
@stace7765
4 жыл бұрын
i would LOVE to see more political content from you!!
@PhilUribe
4 жыл бұрын
Strongly recommend reading about anarchism as well.
@romanbrandle319
4 жыл бұрын
Young people learning about a variety of social economic models and finding a political orientation is the only hope for the future . As too many people from previous generations were happy to accept the ills of capitalism whilst making symbolic gestures , that make them feel good but have little to no real benefit to those in need .
@andyeql
4 жыл бұрын
Abolish capitalism. Are you Mad??? Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services and the market is the method for discovering the price of those goods and services. It is responsible for just about everything you see around you in the modern world and has lifted millions (perhaps billions) out of poverty. I'm not saying it's perfect, but what would you replace it with?
@Notveryimpressed
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, abolish capitalism before it collapses completely under the weight of its failings. Which is likely to happen pretty soon. The vast majority of people lifted out of poverty are Chinese. Are you advocating a planned economy like China's?
@francescaboyle9084
4 жыл бұрын
i've finally found my perfect corner of youtube - pink, sparkly, and socio-economically conscious
@dee8163
3 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I've been thinking! Plus it has the vibe of a sleepover at 1 am when things start getting deeper
@tabi2968
3 жыл бұрын
@@dee8163 true dat
@MissEddieBlueKawaiiKrafts
3 жыл бұрын
@@dee8163 ahhhh those were the best!! I was the one who got everyone scared thinking there was a monster behind the door 🙈😸😋😋
@Rriuiu
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been fighting w ppl in comments bc they get so unnecessarily hostile when a KZitemr says capitalism explicitly and gives even just a little conservative critique of it 🙄 I was so ready to give up… and then I found Jordan’s “that girl” vid! She is so lovely and funny and articulate and well-informed so I am sooooo excited for this one.
@makeart-notwar-6732
5 ай бұрын
and incredibly superficial, just like their standpoints
@vicfern
4 жыл бұрын
Will never ever EVER forget when I told a close person of mine that I was worried about money and struggling and she said "well, what do you need money for anyways?? money comes and goes!" and im- ????????????? TO HAVE A ROOF OVER MY HEAD. I dream of being that financially stable. Struggling with money is the n1 stress for me.
@tb1391
4 жыл бұрын
Victoria Fernandez “...at the end of my life, when I'm sitting on my yacht, am I going to be thinking about how much money I have?” -Michael Scott
@ljean5471
4 жыл бұрын
they people who go around saying "money can't buy you happiness" have never had to worry about putting food on the table or paying rent. Sure money can't bring you deep happiness but it can certainly provide you the basic necessities that allow you to have less stress, and therefore be happier. Money and happiness are absolutely intertwined.
@saturated3821
4 жыл бұрын
@@ljean5471 There's been a study about this, although I can't remember where, where money affected happiness level as long as it was an issue. Once people had enough money to not have to worry about it, adding more money didn't make people any happier. So having ENOUGH money is absolutely important to happiness.
@aliyaf9869
4 жыл бұрын
My dads struggling to buy a new bed and mattered for me because a custom made one is very expensive and it won’t fit the dimensions of my small room.I also need it because it’s well beyond broken and ppl just don’t understand how bad it is but yeah they tell us that ‘we don’t need money’ or ‘you’ll be fine’ I really wish the roles were reversed with people who say stuff like this I highly doubt that they even believe a word of what they’re saying.
@SteppingStonevlogs
4 жыл бұрын
that was the least helpful response to what was obviously a really honest and hard topic to bring up, only for your friend to basically dismiss it all by saying money has no use and more money is bound to come along. And there's you with just £10 in your bank account and all the sofa cushions scattered on the floor just so you can find a quid more. Having a solid job and enough income for the outcome is amazing and something I had to work hard to get. And then maybe enough to get a coffee now and then is a big treat. Came from a working class income but lived in a middle class neighbourhood. My accent is posh northern and people used to tease me because I didn't sound working class. I am in a good place thanks to the free education and the emotional support from my family, and I count myself very privileged to be where I am today! But growing up with almost no money will forever put what I have now into a sombre perspective.
@Spacevalentine
4 жыл бұрын
and that’s on every boy at my school who wears puffer jackets and tracksuits, say fam, bruv and g then proceed to head back to their £700,000 detached house on the seafront and complain about benefit fraud
@Spacevalentine
4 жыл бұрын
not to mention they all say the n word at least 14 times a day
@prettyrat.
4 жыл бұрын
LMFAO the last one. wish it was a joke
@lotussight
4 жыл бұрын
How did you describe the lads at my uni so perfectly 😰😰😰
@hahahaha-ow9il
4 жыл бұрын
Not A honestly certain slang just doesn’t suit white people, sounds unnatural with a posh or a chav white accent
@ricardoramos4514
4 жыл бұрын
Yup or some bullshit on how immigrants are talking there jobs or what ever.
@claireg445
4 жыл бұрын
I think, especially in middle class private schools, there's this fear of being called 'posh' or 'snobby' and so people appropriate the "working-class aesthetic" to maintain the idea that they're humble or whatever but that just makes them look ungrateful!! like if you're privileged, its way more snobby and insulting to working-class people to be pretending that you're poor or downplaying all your possessions than it is to be acknowledging that you have the privilege of being middle class
@funkydinosaurs4033
4 жыл бұрын
this this this
@kathrynschoon902
4 жыл бұрын
i definitely agree with this but also whilst they don’t want to come across as posh they can also dip into their privilege with their gap yahs, cars and often the lesser need for a job
@fkatwigsisthequeenofenglan4748
4 жыл бұрын
it's funny cus they don't wanna be seen as upper class and wanna try and relate to the working class but then put down the working class and appropriate the working class culture whilst simultaneously shitting on them
@bebel6854
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. But I think in a lot of cases there is almost a guilt aspect. Like they recognise how privileged they are and how unfair that is and it makes them kind of uncomfortable. So they would rather just play it down
@cocoacoolness
4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh sounds like my sister, she imitates the accent of poorer people where I live, doesn't pay train fares even though she easily can, brags about dressing in head to toe kmart, etc. (if you don't know kmart, it's target but a lot cheaper)
@Anthecstiecsaf
4 жыл бұрын
I’m from Chile, South America, and something that plays a huge role here is muralism. So what happens is that artists when looking for a place to paint their art they’ll do it on a low income to poor area, this with the intent to give it a little more life and color, this areas usually have no green areas, parks or anything, which we all know plays a huge role in people’s lifestyle and mental health, mostly on children. So the intentions are good, the thing is that once the place is filled with art it starts to be interesting to the middle and upper classes, so let’s say there’s a local thrift store or fair, the prices are low and the sellers are local, what happens is that high income people will start coming to buy to this places and that gives sellers the opportunity to make their prices higher, locals’s can’t keep buying, the neighborhood starts to be filled with visitors on weekends, real state agencies put their eye there, and so it begins just how you said in the video. The interesting part is that muralism is actually working class culture, it payed a huge role during Allende’s government and Pinochet’s dictatorship, as a medium for protest, so basically there’s a problem not only with the appropriation itself of muralism culture, but also with the negative effect of displacement it started having on the working class. This is a really interesting topic, loved the vid 🖤
@mrs.potatohead8471
4 жыл бұрын
That's honestly really interesting! 💕
@Anthecstiecsaf
4 жыл бұрын
Not A yeah it’s almost gross. Not much bc of graffiti, that doesn’t have much cultural value here, but muralism has such an important history and rich people will just use them as backgrounds for their ig pics. It comes with a history of political persecution, exile and torture, people could literally be killed for making them, cause it was born as “comunist propaganda”. If you are interested (or anyone reading this) you should totally look for “Brigada Ramona Parra” which is pretty much the origin of muralism in Chile, and explains why it is such a disrespect to appropriate it.
@TM-qt2ze
4 жыл бұрын
Cuicos comprándose ropa en la feria: an epidemic.
@DeepTitanic
4 жыл бұрын
I’m reading about Allende now! Such a tragic story.. fuck imperialism and solidarity from the UK
@kafka9627
4 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting! I didn’t know this but it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!!
@rebeccak9626
4 жыл бұрын
Posh private school girls can look scruffy, have dyed hair, show a lot of skin, dress like a character in skins, and it literally does not impact their job prospects. Whereas, I’ve always internalised anti-working class “aesthetic” because that image of a “chav” with hoop earrings and a low cut top has been used to systematically discriminate against actual working class women. We’re told it’s our fault, to dress properly and speak more eloquently. It’s not a costume for me. It’s not trendy, really - it’s something I was deathly afraid of being perceived as, because I wouldn’t be valued as a student or a potential employee. I would just be cast as a ‘chav’. I literally hated tracksuits in such a weird way, it’s just a piece of clothing, but that’s the type of clothing which would set me back in the mind of a middle class employer.
@AH-yg4dj
4 жыл бұрын
i 100% agree, in school being classed as a ‘chav’ would literally be like a death sentence, everyone would look at you as uneducated and now that i think back to it it’s actually disturbing how middle class girls openly joke about it and how they worry about looking and acting like a ‘chav’ when they know very well that their background and upbringing protected them from ever being perceived as one, no matter how they acted. they could dress and act how they wished, because their posh parents and suburban home would make up for it. hope you know you are just as important and worthy as everyone around you no matter how you look or dress or speak❤️
@millsmelody2127
4 жыл бұрын
same with me daily im called a chav and have to change who i am
@caitswan5651
4 жыл бұрын
This is the most relatable thing I’ve ever read! My family live in a council house in a bad area and my mum used to drill it into me not to dress like the people around me if I wanted to succeed. Even at university, people at first regarded me as being ‘rich’ because of how I dressed due to being told never to wear a tracksuit, a hoodie or even jeans.
@RainxOnxMex
4 жыл бұрын
Do you often wear tracksuits to job interviews?
@OneLastHandspringOK
4 жыл бұрын
100% I was never allowed to buy a tracksuit unless it was for my PE kit and when hoop earrings became super super popular I bought some when out with my mates and my mum went ballistic. I didn't get it then but as ive gotten older its clicked and it makes me mad
@Saint_Medusa
4 жыл бұрын
Imagining being so egotistic that you see a poor neighborhoods and think they need you to add " culture " as If it doesn't have a culture thier own
@broombed7888
4 жыл бұрын
Modern colonization
@leilanidru7506
4 жыл бұрын
pregnancyscare 💀
@aliyaf9869
4 жыл бұрын
pregnancyscare gentrification.It happens a lot
@Fungamerplays
4 жыл бұрын
the rich man's burden
@jacob421
4 жыл бұрын
Supremacy
@heyitsanna72
4 жыл бұрын
what really bothers me is that rich, middle class teenagers can glamorise and take as many drugs as they want with no consequences, yet working class kids are more often caught up in county lines and face jail for the same crime. PS i loved this video
@AlixAgony
4 жыл бұрын
Tee Gee unironically from personal experience, I’ve grown up in a working class area where people (disproportionately black youth) get caught up in drugs but get massively persecuted for it, while white kids from outside London or the same areas never face any persecution for doing much more
@hahahaha-ow9il
4 жыл бұрын
Tee Gee why do u need statistics when the proof is right in front of our eyes? michael gove’s daughter and her friend group is a great example. the white girls in my school are a great example, their friends from outside of school are a great example, tiktok girls are a great example
@Beet-e3b
4 жыл бұрын
I heard in America they over police lower class neighborhoods to arrest them so they lose their right to vote for people who will actually help them
@beatbone96
4 жыл бұрын
@@AlixAgony people/society judges you different when you are "rich" and take drugs
@aliyaf9869
4 жыл бұрын
It’s so bad because they can easily be bailed out.Poor ppl have to stay there.No one really cares about thhem
@kamilareeder1493
4 жыл бұрын
At college girls would be praised as edgy and artsy for thrifting and looking scruffy but I had no choice because I was because I was broke. Professors would always allude to the way I looked at the time as a Choice I was making to be rebellious and it SUCKED.
@aliyaf9869
4 жыл бұрын
and the worst thing of it all is that the clothes are probably a lot better quality than an actual poor persons clothes.Its class appropriation and wealthy people who do this are scum
@embroideredragdoll
4 жыл бұрын
People who go to charity shops only to sell for an exorbitant price are the worst
@discospider4120
4 жыл бұрын
@@aliyaf9869 What if they just like the style? This isnt so much a contradiction or an argument, I'm just trying to learn more!
@abbf26-_-13
4 жыл бұрын
@@discospider4120 Why do you like the style? The truth is that there are a tonne of things in the UK which come down to class, and although "appropriation" wouldn't be the correct term, there is a comidification of what it means to be or sound as though you're lower than middle class. I speak with an accent which would be considered "chavvy", no idea where I got it being an army brat and all, but I sure do have one. It made all of my lecturers assume anything I said was a joke, and I make an active effort to remove my accent for job interviews and presentations. So, why do you like the fashion? What attracts you to it? Consider the fact that you can be perceived as anything but working class as you choose, and recognise that the appreciation of an aesthetic often associated with idiocy and ignorance most likely comes from a place of infantilisation or even a weird sense of fetishisation: if you like tracksuits wear tracksuits. If you like tracksuits because you feel a bit 'arder wearing them, ask yourself why.
@Kyiecutie
4 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most infuriating experiences of my life. We were broke when I was a kid and my clothes were hand me downs or second hand from thrift stores or garage sales if I was VERY lucky that year. Got bullied all through childhood for not having nice clothes. Then all of a sudden, the same $1-$5 clothes all the rich girls made fun of me for wearing because that’s all I had, were trendy, and cute and “goals” and sold for $20 an article. Fucking unbelievable.
@daniellahoughton5445
4 жыл бұрын
I hate the fact that there is a 'working class aesthetic', it makes me feel dirty, coming from a working class family in a former mining community in South Yorkshire, the chav culture is thriving and to hear that people are purposely acting and dressing that way just makes me feel like they are taking the piss. I never wore anything that would associate me with being working class and I changed my accent because growing up it was a label you didn't want to have
@booklover8081
3 жыл бұрын
Literally! My family is on the more poor side (like, living on food stamps and seven people in a two bed room apartment with one bathroom) and my siblings and I put in so much effort into not looking poor and it can be so frustrating to see these people thinking it’s some “aesthetic” to look poor and then those kids are the same ones to go and make fun of people like my family for buying clothes at Walmart and living on food stamps.
@bdhfhbhrebfg466
3 жыл бұрын
@@booklover8081 you have five siblings ?
@okellie
4 жыл бұрын
the ceo of actually interesting and informative content
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
hahaha thank u!💖
@styledbysands
4 жыл бұрын
Seriously it’s a breath of fresh air
@gijsbrans2338
4 жыл бұрын
You should check out contrapoints, similar content. Looks like this is very much inspired by her (pink light and topics).
@ongren1575
4 жыл бұрын
why be the ceo when you could have a seat in the revolutionary vanguard and supreme soviet
@transsexual_computer_faery
4 жыл бұрын
@@ongren1575 because we ain't tankies
@totallytired5365
4 жыл бұрын
There are so many ugly giant flats which no one can afford appear around London in areas which actually need inexpensive and accessible housing
@lemsip207
4 жыл бұрын
I have noticed on every trip to London. Before I would travel into London on the A4 as a passenger in a car or coach and would be able to see Osterley Park on the way in. Somebody else remarked it was like being back in the countryside. Now you can't see Osterley Park because of huge office blocks or blocks of flats obscuring the view. Also as you pass near Heathrow Airport the office buildings are so tall they are like New York sky scrapers.
@myristicina.
4 жыл бұрын
They are getting knocked down now and are replaced by nice looking but rushed homes they are moving ppl out of those blocks
@amsan96
4 жыл бұрын
this is such a massive problem where I live in west london
@dubudubudan
4 жыл бұрын
yes! I live in Wood street with my dad and woodberry down with my mum and they’ve torn down bunches of council flats and replaced them with those fugly plastic buildings
@shaunyb2011
4 жыл бұрын
@@myristicina. yeah sad isn't it? moving out people who are born and bred there to be booted out to whether just because...
@clivebby4877
4 жыл бұрын
You a Brit: *speaking about gentrification and then exploitation of the working class and their aesthetic* Me a Jamaican black New Yorker: "hey Ik this song👩🏽🎤💃🏽"
@almadelatierra5153
4 жыл бұрын
Cmon this isn’t abt nationality. Anyone from anywhere could be interested in these topics or not
@kamilareeder1493
3 жыл бұрын
Girl its a whole movie in nyc 👀
@snehadharma8877
3 жыл бұрын
@@kamilareeder1493 it's a whole broadway show
@Fitzroyfallz
3 жыл бұрын
Same thing here in Sydney!
@shadybeashooketh1911
3 жыл бұрын
@@almadelatierra5153 completely missed the point
@katiemercer8868
4 жыл бұрын
the working class aesthetic stuff reminds me of the song "common people"
@LeonWagg
4 жыл бұрын
Lol, KZitem is such a small platform.
@96iceshell
4 жыл бұрын
That song was written 25 years ago and it's still painfully accurate today :(
@almadelatierra5153
4 жыл бұрын
Mate I grew up with that song and I love pulp 😭❤️
@grilledcheese5000
3 жыл бұрын
A Pulp reference is not what I was expecting
@punchdrunkassassin
2 жыл бұрын
That song was the first thing I thought of watching this, and how upsetting it is that it's still very relevant. Always glad to see a Pulp mention though!
@anonanon5364
4 жыл бұрын
ah the 'Mura Masa Aesthetic' as I like to call it, use tower blocks/council estates for the edgy look whilst disregarding the fact that it's where many of us grew up because our parents couldn't afford anything else
@maj6803
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly. I mean I like his songs but he literally grew up in Guernsey not London. 🤦🏾♀️
@sammccoy1283
4 жыл бұрын
You should turn these into podcasts, would be sick to download them on a podcast app and take them out with me when I'm doing stuff rather than needing to be on youtube to access them.
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
podcast is a working progress but hopefully soon come!
@tylersinclair6622
4 жыл бұрын
if you’re an iphone user, pres the aA next to the search bar on safari, then press requests desktop website. Then search the video you want to play and then you can play the video with your phone closed. 😌
@peachmylk
4 жыл бұрын
Tyler Sinclair ok you’re my hero today! how did I not know this
@sanians5685
4 жыл бұрын
Tyler Sinclair you're a saint thank you 🙏🙏👼
@transsexual_computer_faery
4 жыл бұрын
@@jordanatheresa just up the audio track to soundcloud!
@aidanknight1574
4 жыл бұрын
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun." - George Orwell
@dan8085
4 жыл бұрын
That's great and all, but Orwell's a twat.
@maebhc178
4 жыл бұрын
D K ik but animal farm is pretty good as political satire, why did he have to go and be such an awful person >:(
@chesterdonnelly1212
4 жыл бұрын
I take it you haven't been to Asia
@eliasE989
4 жыл бұрын
@@dan8085 Orwell was an excellent writer. I don't really see why he should be considered a twat.
@TheSm1thers
4 жыл бұрын
@@maebhc178 How was Orwell an awful person?
@nonamedoe9264
4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The Shard in London has luxury flats at the top, they have been empty ever since construction completed.
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
disappointed but not surprised
@andyeql
4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Luxury doesn't exist in communist countries - everything is empty because there's no incentive to produce or provide anything unless your told to...
@abdullahsiddiqui6307
4 жыл бұрын
andyeql stop projecting...
@myristicina.
4 жыл бұрын
Abdullah Siddiqui why are u defending communism?!
@angel127_
4 жыл бұрын
andyeql well duh.
@dtsotm
4 жыл бұрын
this reminds me of grace beverley (gracefituk) like she’s a rich white girl who comes from old money and has built an entire brand on working class aesthetic and then sells a windbreaker tracksuit for £85
@madox223
4 жыл бұрын
and preaches about being a 'self-made' businesswoman however without her privilege she wouldn't have anywhere near as much success as she does
@gabi-eg7tg
4 жыл бұрын
omg right??? i heard all sorts of stuff about her and was lowkey like wow she must be so hardworking and then i see the above comment... people arent born equal, its all about them connections, family wealth etc
@madox223
4 жыл бұрын
gabi to be honest I have no doubt that she is hard working, I just think it’s unfair to promote to your followers that they could all achieve the success she has in as little time as it’s taken her when that’s far from the truth
@dtsotm
4 жыл бұрын
Tee Gee lmao yeah it’s got nothing to do with the oppressive capitalist system that literally relies on poverty to keep it afloat, working class people are just bad at saving!!!! you just solved global poverty!!!!
@dtsotm
4 жыл бұрын
mad ox yeah like she’s inherited a type of generational wealth that the vast majority of her following could never even imagine, she talks about how she’s earned all her own money and she and her sisters have worked since they were 15 as if her having a saturday job as a teen is at all comparable to working class kids having no option but to leave school at a young age in order to provide for their families
@4Torches
4 жыл бұрын
The real enemy of the proletariat: hipster coffee shops.
@bt3743
2 жыл бұрын
when starbucks charges you 3 quid for a small latte it is the enemy
@elloohno1349
4 жыл бұрын
In my experience artists/creatives have a bittersweet hand in it too. Younger more middle class kids would move in for low cost studios and attract attention to the area, hosting parties, events, doing street art , exhibitions , markets and then from there the hipsters and following them, the hubs and the investors etc
@bananabrain2996
4 жыл бұрын
I really want to hear more about this aspect of it. Surely this would be okay if the rent price was capped? It's hard to say they just shouldn't bother trying to start a business/career etc
@suides4810
4 жыл бұрын
I think she got the order wrong Its lowerclass>students/artists(because low prices)>hipsters/investors(because cool people live There)
@lemsip207
4 жыл бұрын
Like in Hebden Bridge.
@ediecote1466
4 жыл бұрын
This is almost exactly what happened all over New York. I'm sure the gentrification there is also due to other industries and communities but literally artists would live and work in lower income areas and then get 'discovered' and get famous making the area desirable and become more expensive, Soho used to be that way, then Greenwich Village, Brooklyn, now parts of Queens I'm sure. I've learned about this starting from the 60's with Andy Warhol but it probably started way before then.
@elloohno1349
4 жыл бұрын
@@suides4810 That is how I meant it. :) Artists move into lower cost areas and that is a catalyst for change.
@radeyako8591
4 жыл бұрын
The slang you mentioned I’d say is more synonymous with black urban culture rather than just working class
@DDoubleEDouble
4 жыл бұрын
Yes!! It’s important to make that distinction and for some reason, that point is often left out...
@indi4evr
4 жыл бұрын
yes thank you!!
@eva-jx5bn
4 жыл бұрын
AL AL aave is a language and you need to acknowledge it as such . Stop thinking blck ppl owe you their culture
@jasmynimaani
4 жыл бұрын
maria ! Aave is African American. Black English people have our own slang/vernacular
@j.kaimori3848
4 жыл бұрын
In the UK class is like race in the US. And slang is probably linked as poor Brits and Irish travelled to the US and mingled woth the poor African-Americans.
@Cel-xq6pp
4 жыл бұрын
Soooo many people at top UK universities (aka Durham University lol) appropriate elements of working class culture but they'll never understand the struggle that comes with it
@MoveOnUpMusicEvan
4 жыл бұрын
Are you talking mainly about Jack Edwards aha
@nessadrake
4 жыл бұрын
In what way?
@chesterdonnelly1212
4 жыл бұрын
@@nessadrake like having no money and your parents having no money.
@Cel-xq6pp
4 жыл бұрын
@@MoveOnUpMusicEvan Not really, I don't know much about him and as far as I've seen him on campus he doesn't seem too bad a person. It's mainly in reference to a lot of the points mentioned in this video. Taking elements of a working class aesthetic for fashion purposes but then saying some extremely vile classist stuff at the same time.
@charlotteo1542
4 жыл бұрын
@@MoveOnUpMusicEvan I don't think Jack does that, I'd love to hear an example tho
@creepling_
4 жыл бұрын
when i started uni last september i was very taken aback by people, and they were taken aback by me too. i was told repeatedly that i was hard to understand and the "i have no idea what you just said" and i immediately felt isolated. when i spoke about a film that dealt with the themes of poverty, drug dealing and the working class (and the film was shot in my hometown) i was praised for "knowing the material". i then added that i didn't know the material, i /lived/ in it; that this is more than just a movie to me. my uni peers and lecturers tend to have this saviour complex when talking about sources and media that depict the working class. it makes me cringe so much. i am proud to say i am a working class person that is in university, working a part time job and providing things for my family. like those men in mcdonalds, i was depicted to amount to nothing, i was dropped before i was given a chance to achieve and i have a lot of privilege for being able to fight a hard match and achieve my dreams; that's not the story for a lot of working class people sadly. the middle/upper classes see the hardwork we put in daily and like to sit at the sidelines and clap. to them they're watching an egg and spoon race, but to us we're doing the fucking olympics.
@emmaphilo4049
4 жыл бұрын
Very well written comment, I wish you all the success you deserve (and I am not clapping at the egg and spoon race, I am from a working class background too).
@esthiee6337
4 жыл бұрын
Period❤️ Well spoken!
@oliverdean949
3 жыл бұрын
Yes mate! Keep doing it. Seeing as you mentioned film I thought maybe you're in a creative subject? I'm taking a punt here but if you are...WC ppl are in the minority in the creative industries, there needs to be way more of us (this paper is worth a search -" Panic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries"). There also needs to be more info about what it's like being wc and going to uni. I had no idea how people had the time or the money to create the work they did when I was there, looking back it's pretty obvious! Aanyway. Whatever you're studying, keep doing your thing!! Never stop!! 💪
@TheLenny655
4 жыл бұрын
Storytime: A homeless man broke into one of those vacant expensive properties. And thought he would be sleeping like a king for the night but to his surprise it was infested with rats and found he was better off on the street afterall. The property market in London is a joke. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@inkheart2007
4 жыл бұрын
wow i didn't know it was that bad here thats insane lmao
@laurenwalton5933
4 жыл бұрын
The working class 'aesthetic' is something I have really noticed since I began going to uni in manchester. Being from a low socioeconomic background myself, I found it quite unsettling being completely surrounded by middle-class people who spent a LOT of money maintaining the 'look' of being poor. I also find the contrast between the highly funded University and it's surroundings, in between 2 mainly working-class areas Rusholme and Moss Side.
@chloehamid8065
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I hated it when they did that. I called it ‘Fallowfield Chic’
@aishabah
4 жыл бұрын
I live in manchester and I agree with you.
@madox223
4 жыл бұрын
I'm moving to manchester in september for uni and am definitely not looking forward to this :/
@lucyadlington2518
4 жыл бұрын
totally. Music scenes are rife with it too. They love posting pictures of bollards and bins on instagram.
@AlixAgony
4 жыл бұрын
Literally Uni or is the most jarring example of this ever. 70% of people there are from private and grammar schools and literally skinwalk the poor to seem cool and fit in
@sanna5623
4 жыл бұрын
I totally get what you mean with the working class aesthetic. there was this girl in my year who I know came from a middle class family and was well-off financially, and she spoke with her usual dialect for most of secondary school. but when it got to sixth form, she became friends with different people and it would start speaking differently by using working class slang, all the while still enjoying the benefits of being middle class and rich. it just left a bad impression on me, because although I know the way you speak does change, this change is coming from someone whose parents said she wasn't allowed to come to my area (a lower-income, working class place) because it was supposedly 'too dangerous'. people using the aesthetic to 'fit in' with their peers but then scorning them behind their backs doesn't sit right with me
@idrk3707
4 жыл бұрын
Tee Gee why r u in every comment thread defending gentrification lmao
@bitethatbullet7054
2 жыл бұрын
talking like someone else is not appropriation.
@kittusim8520
4 жыл бұрын
The upper class or wealthy have always appropriated the lower class aesthetic or art. Like Tango in Argentina and elsewhere in the world!
@DeepTitanic
4 жыл бұрын
Shakespeare is the original example.. was rowdy street theatre centuries later it’s toff culture
@cogitorium1089
4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, privilege is not the best muse. Privileged people are less likely to adopt new slang, less likely to break rules, less likely to feel the need to express themselves in new ways. That's just what comes with education and wealth. Most changes in language and culture originate from the unprivileged. The Beatles would just play in an orchestra if their parents were able to invest in formal musical education. Appropriation is completely natural and as much as it feels unfair sometimes, I don't think we can stop white boomers from thinking that jazz is accurately represented as a white lady singing Love Story theme in a Chanel gown. But the beautiful thing about humans is that their creativity always finds a way. From Homer to memes, from Socrates to ContraPoints, from caveman paintings to conceptual art - we always find new ways, when the old ones lose their meaning after being appropriated.
@benmorran1064
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly right! Ain't nothing new under the sun.
@smagnolia2545
4 жыл бұрын
can we go in more on the depop sellers. let’s also talk about the show skins
@ellierm9871
4 жыл бұрын
Depop sellers whom are rich middle class, going into poor areas to go charity shopping and selling it for 50x the price, profiting off of the working class, it’s absolutely astonishing.
@DoraWinifred
4 жыл бұрын
Wtf I didn’t know this was a thing
@mzmz12345
4 жыл бұрын
Ellie*rm yes defo!! TK maxx clearance purchases with a 300% inflation! Fair enough, you’re entitled to do such a thing but buying more than one of the same item to re-sell is disgusting! I don’t care about the whole ‘don’t hate the player, hate the game’, where are their morals??
@noe2005
4 жыл бұрын
@Tee Gee I don't really know that much about this, but it seems like the problem is that shopping there is trendy so there is more demand for the same amount of clothes.
@zaynabhussain6378
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah but the Depop sellers reselling AliExpress and vintage shit really only sell to people that will pay stupid money: rich middle class tory girls.
@SarahZ
4 жыл бұрын
instant subscribe
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
ahh thanks sarah!
@Hello-jm3qq
4 жыл бұрын
Aw I love both of you!!!!
@delphidehavilland
4 жыл бұрын
as someone who goes to uni in london, the (white) middle class adoption of the working class "aesthetic" is an absolute plague ngl... someone get me out of here
@slena
4 жыл бұрын
this is such a global phenomenon tbh rich parisian kids are the same
@noe2005
4 жыл бұрын
The same happens in Spain, with the exact same aesthetic.
@beecat9038
4 жыл бұрын
The same is also happening here in Australia
@shaunyb2011
4 жыл бұрын
@Daniel Rumbacher daniel the powers that be won't allow that to happen hence the reason gentrification is now sweeping across london,the locals are being priced out quickly one way or another..
@iindiraa
4 жыл бұрын
@Daniel Rumbacher Communism has not even been achieved on a large enough scale for people to bat an eye.
@mariafilonczyk6428
4 жыл бұрын
I just want to say that Im very happy you found the niche of social and political commentary, as a political science student I enjoy those very very much and also I appreciate how much work and research you put into your videos, it's remarkable!
@hsaky1989
4 жыл бұрын
OH WORKING CLASS FETISHISATION! If you know Stacey Dooley, the British TV presenter, then her beginnings of her TV is a really interesting case. She was on the show 'Blood, sweat and t-shirts' as a shopaholic, middle-class white girl and was working in a factory in India to show the process behind fast fashion basically. It showed an angle on privileged teenagers from the UK, but by the end of it educated in the ways of the literal 'blood, sweat' and tears that go into making the items of clothes they all take for granted. It's so interesting to see her now do shows exploring about rough groups like young people in America, many different shows on sex work (loved that video of yours by the way). It's interesting to see if that could be examined as an exploitation of working class on television like you said in your part 1, or if it stems from a general want to spread information and help these sorts of people by sharing their stories. Just a thought that stemmed from this video!
@DiabolicalPaperClip
4 жыл бұрын
She strikes me as one of the documentary makers that people like because they're relatable in how clueless they are. She never says anything challenging or gives new perspectives. She made a career out of it but it's... Not interesting.
@dirkbogarde44
4 жыл бұрын
Stacey Dooley wasn't middle-class. She is now...with her money but wasn't when she got into the media.
@MingusTale
4 жыл бұрын
I hate it when people say "I just grew up in a normal family". Like that almost always means they were privelaged, sorry. I've had people with servants tell me they're just normal. It usually means that they're just to sheltered to really consider the diversity of upbringings of other people. If people ask me about my background, I will say I'm from a middle class family but we lost all of our money when I was 5 years old. I acknowledge the privelage of having a lot of relatives that have been to university and have some experience of a white collar job market, and having a sort of RP accent and a house my mum actually owns, even if I was on free school meals and received a computer from the government. Anyone who can't acknowledge any privelage in their upbringing whilst clearly not being working class is probably sheltered as hell.
@learn2draw716
4 жыл бұрын
Who cares though?
@bente1695
4 жыл бұрын
People who are actually rich & say they’re normal also makes an issue for actual normal people. I’m from a normal family. We live in a semi-detached house w 1 bathroom, my parents make enough money to have one or two big expenses annually (such as a holiday or when a car breaks down). I never had to worry about my next meal, but we also ate a simple meal of potatoes, vegetables & some meat. THAT’s normal for a western family IMO.
@indiar9721
4 жыл бұрын
yeah and often the amount of people who believe that they are working class when a majority of the population are middle class, like just because you didn’t go to a private school doesn’t mean you are working class
@lb-kp1fl
4 жыл бұрын
"I hate it when people say "I just grew up in a normal family". Like that almost always means they were privelaged, sorry". You sound pretty privelaged.
@yotubeification
4 жыл бұрын
@@indiar9721 middle class is working class. The division is made so those who own the means of productions can keep your mutual interests from aligning.
@JazzyJ96771
4 жыл бұрын
The housing situation is mad right now, only certain areas have cheap flats and cheap flats attract the wrong kind of tenants, then actual good tenants living in "dodgy" areas creates a lot of neighbour tension and being a young person (23) there's a box that EVERY landlord/landlady/lettings agent will put you in, the box of immediately assuming that you're immature, unreliable, untrustworthy and that you will always fall behind on your rent and heavily rely on housing benefit, therefore we have more young people who will most likely be stuck with their parents (which is literal hell for some of us) until we're in our late 20's, early 30's. When my Dad was my age, it was £50 a month or £100 a month for his bills, now the cheapest place you'll find to rent is like £600-800 a month for a studio flat or bedsit. The housing market is disgusting right now! Nothing but greedy, sociopathic, presumptuous and entitled landlords.
@smashb3766
3 жыл бұрын
Not the landlord fault.
@lilyrlucia
4 жыл бұрын
i’m so glad people are talking about this, you said everything i’ve been thinking. I saw the ‘kill all chavs’ tiktok and it upset me so much to see the thousands of comments agreeing with her. thank you for making this
@niamhlewis
4 жыл бұрын
when she was talking about the working class aesthetic i totally agree and understood i go to school in a middle to upper middle class in the uk but *everyone* no matter where there from all use working class slang( the outfits etc also) and it pisses me off bc its not who there are or where there from and you can tell because a lot of the people who use these slang are also the people who 'flex' their wealth whenever they can and i bet they're not the same at home.
@soopperson5953
4 жыл бұрын
There’s a girl like that in my class, she complains about her family being poor and keeps telling everyone she’ll have to drop out of our private school soon since it’s so expensive and puts on this weird accent she claims she got from her parents(been to her house her parents speak nothing like her), she also owns AirPod pros, an iPhone X and ALL her clothes r from Nike and all those expensive brands. I’m not sure wtf is going on her head to make her think she’s fooling anyone, she always talks down to the rest of us and it’s super weird
@JazzyJ96771
4 жыл бұрын
their* wealth
@yeetmybeetsoryeetyourtoots7740
4 жыл бұрын
Helloyellow oof, there’s a girl in my class like that too
@fabiahalsteadd
4 жыл бұрын
Helloyellow yeh my friend has an iphone 11 pro and lives in a big house but she may have ti drop out of our private school. u never know whats going on xx
@soopperson5953
4 жыл бұрын
Clara Halstead hmmm yeah I guess I’m jumping to conclusions, I don’t know exactly what’s going in her personal life.
@zeetamuigai5295
4 жыл бұрын
YAY BBC PICK THIS UP
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
🥺
@zeetamuigai5295
4 жыл бұрын
Look I have a counter argument (although I see the sad effects of gentrification on residents and how people are pushed out of where they live and grew up) 1. No one owns the land that they live on (aside from their own private property) especially if they are paying a mortgage they owe the bank). We cannot gate keep areas and stop people moving in, that is just not how the world works. If anything that is what we would describe and discrimination and hostility...imagine if middle class residents did the same to those from lower economic backgrounds and complains about them moving in? That happened in mid 20th century USA and is called racism. The point is if you have enough money in your account to buy a property, once the property is in your name you have the right to do what you want with it. 2. The circular flow of money is just an element of life. If I spend a pound, I lose the pound and it goes to whoever I am paying. Therefore for every rich investor money has left a poor persons pocket and gone into a rich ones, although this analogy is very complicated. People make money off peoples downfalls by pricing up rent because they can. We live in a capitalist society. If there was a chance to increase your tenants rent from 500pcm in 2010 to 1200pcm in 2020, you have the right to do so. As a landlord there are financial checks which check if a tenant can REALLY afford to live in a property, and as sad as it is London is a huge wonderful city, someone with a really nice city job and their housemate can afford the 600pcm and the family cannot. As sad as it is this is life. 3. no one is ever happy. I could say every child in the UK has a right to a free school meal, there are protests. I could say every homeless person legally cannot and should not be without housing there is a protest. The sad reality of life is that NO ONE is ever happy whatever you do, the original residents complain that the neighbourhood looks different than 20 years ago. Sad. But change is inevitable. 4. Sorry this comment is long ahah BUT there needs to be a scheme where existing tenants get rent locked at a fixed rate and gentrification should be inspired by the old neighbourhood. For example if it was an afro-carribean neighbourhood, statues markets and shops should have that feel, as well as streetart, e.g Brixton. When windrush migrants came to reside in Brixton, white lower class people weren't happy, they left, racist as they were and moved on. Change will always happen. This also helps to combat racial segregation as many migrants were placed in cheap decrepit housing to be separated from white people. With gentrification I can see Vegan art Uni students of all races sitting down to enjoy overpriced coffee in Hackney. Maybe I contribute to the problem. 5. At the end of the day due to inflation prices have to rise but in places like Tesco, whether in posh central London or average income greater london, prices don't differ. A sandwich still costs £3. The types of faces you see may change. But the world 50 years ago does not look how it does today. Anywhere. Once out of your private property the governenment owns the land you stand on. You do not. I LOVE YOUR VIDS BYEE lmao
@angel127_
4 жыл бұрын
Zeeta Muigai god DAMN how did you write all that
@outherewildinb2874
4 жыл бұрын
@@zeetamuigai5295 Gentrification is not the same as racial segregation, white flight or NIMBY. ETA: It also is not an equal relationship - middle to upper classes have far more say (and use said say) to control their neighbourhood. Working class people do not, even if their say has a far more genuine purpose than wanting everyone's front garden to look presentable for market prices. Your arguments (while lengthy) just amounts to 'we live in a society', which is fine - but we should change it somewhat perhaps? Even if there's disagreement (which is inevitable).
@emmaphilo4049
4 жыл бұрын
Oh no. That would be unfair :/
@mstly4lg
4 жыл бұрын
I am working class. I got picked on at school for wearing SportsDirect brands and for not being able to afford the smart business-like uniforms the other kids had. I've worked my way into university, where the same girls, who used tell me my mum had not fashion sense for dressing me in flared jeans, and who in secondary school told me "the bigger the hoop, the bigger the hoe", are now wearing flared jeans, Fila and hoops.
@larrymartin9550
4 жыл бұрын
Stop whining you communist, those girls can wear whatever they want like my sister who loves fila and hoop earrings and we're typing this in our mansion in the bahamas
@oswaldjameslangston6008
3 жыл бұрын
@@larrymartin9550 🤣
@blueisblue599
3 жыл бұрын
@@larrymartin9550 You're such a troll.
@larrymartin9550
3 жыл бұрын
@@blueisblue599 no u
@katy3901
4 жыл бұрын
Literally saw a property listing where they wrote "in the heart of a recently gentrified area" as if that's a good thing! Made me so angry. Also, I'm new to your channel and not even through this video yet, but it's wonderful! The time you've put in really shows, and I'm so happy to find such interesting, well-researched and relevant information about an often overlooked topic presented in a captivating way. Thank you so much!
@MediAndClaire
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve been a student at two of the uks top universities and I can safely say all of the posh yahs dress like they’re homeless when actually they’re living in incredibly gentrified apartments that their parents are paying for (£800-1000 per person per month in rent)
@Sarah-me1wf
4 жыл бұрын
AHHHH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS I'm about to have a doctor's appointment soon so imma watch this later with a cup of tea 😗✌🏼
@raanasyed8249
4 жыл бұрын
@TheGooners11 are you actually joking?
@KaboodleDoodle
4 жыл бұрын
TheGooners11 oh no god forbid people would want to be cleanly and stop the spread of a virus that disproportionately kills people of colour and the elderly !
@bethbethbeth863
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for talking about grenfell
@davesmith1922
4 жыл бұрын
Its not as if the Engineering world didn't know about thin Aluminium plate/sheeting as the fires ripped through the Aluminium structured boats during the Falklands conflict where fire killed many in that instance and this was in 1982. The fact no one has been held accountable for Grenville, this means that it is open season on the General Public on top of the fact we have increasing GMO food Fluoridation of water, chem trails and Bill Gates and the WHO who want to now vaccinate us all with God knows what and lets not forget electronic smog.
@Lectical
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah you lost me when you turned into Alex Jones lmao Hope your bullshit doesn’t cut into the legitimacy of all the real issues
@mercyyy
4 жыл бұрын
I watched this beautiful and very emotional movie about the working class in the UK called “Sorry We Missed You”. Personally this movie hit me more than Parasite and it was so real that it changed my outlook on everyone in every aspect of the economy. I really recommend people to watch it.
@jellybean1528
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe cause ypu relate more. Ive never watched the movie btw
@jamesstephenson3305
4 жыл бұрын
Grew up on a council estate, parents (windows salesman and stay at home mum) felt like it was really important to not talk like someone who sounds "working class" so they always picked me up on my grammar/spelling/accent (always pronounce your t's). Think they did this so I could maximise my chances of getting into a good uni/get a good job etc. I think it helped, and I was lucky enough to get into a good uni and get a well paid job... defo middle class now (and sound it too). But I have met SO MANY PEOPLE who try and chat like they're a roadman or chav who are from a middle class background, own property etc, and give me shit for sounding "posh" it is infuriating.
@lotussight
4 жыл бұрын
This!!! I think most of my vocab is taken from years of watching Downton Abbey and Sherlock ngl, but I do occasionally slip into my very Black country working class accent 😂
@jamesstephenson3305
4 жыл бұрын
@I'MDEprEssEdaNDqUIrkY software dev
@hola_rossinyol
4 жыл бұрын
Yep I an relate - I grew up in a council estate in west london (no, not a nice part), single parent family but went to college and got into Uni. Now I have a well paid job and moved to SE London 12 years ago because it was the cheapest part which has seen a massive amount of gentrification recently and I hate that I get lumped with all the posh art peeps who's lifestyles are funded by the bank of mum and dad.
@colonyofrats4193
4 жыл бұрын
lotus sight I'm the exact same omg (and I'm a brummie too)
@madinp1177
3 жыл бұрын
I mean on the other side of this I was bullied shitless for being too posh when I started secondary school (knew nobody there to be friends with) and started dropping my Ts and speaking with the same slang as the more working class people in order to try and fit in and stop getting seen as ‘other’ so much. I wish I hadn’t changed that about myself because I can’t help the way I speak now and it’s embarrassing to be called out about it by family members. I was literally just trying to make myself less of a target. There’s a good chance that the privileged people who put on the dumb roadmen accents are potentially embarrassed about appearing unrelatable or snobby and so try to ameliorate that but overcompensate in the process
@emmacat3202
4 жыл бұрын
South Park did a great episode on gentrification in the U.S. It's called "Sodosopa".
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
ffs i completely forgot about that ep but it’s acc such a good portrayal of gentrification !!
@tomsheppard33
4 жыл бұрын
"White people renovating houses"
@lazlow9640
4 жыл бұрын
"With great views of Kenny's house"
@lazybones79
4 жыл бұрын
The phenomenon of gentrification seems almost non-existent, while "Super gentrification" is very common in Dublin. Everyone has been pushed out of the city - expect those in social housing - while petit bourgeois Airbnb slumlords and bourgeois property developers have bought up most of the city. However, as transport infrastructure is extremely underdeveloped here (train lines were torn up to accommodate Ford motors) everyone has to continue to rent in Dublin. We are all just paying more than half our wages to live here.
@punksk8a29
4 жыл бұрын
In New York and the US as a whole, a major problem with Super Gentrification is that many properties are bought solely so that ultra wealthy can essentially buy citizenship. Most luxury apartments in Manhattan bare empty.
@finneire1282
4 жыл бұрын
That sucks. My mums side of the family are all from the big smog and I lived in Dublin for a year myself and was just thinking that this sounded hugely familiar. I dont have a whole lot of hope with the new government.
@assholebyginger
4 жыл бұрын
Out of curiosity would moving to a different large city fix this problem? We have the same problem in Toronto but nobody likes any of the other mid sized cities since they're boring so we stay here and pay our dues.
@darraghmcmahon2664
4 жыл бұрын
This is utter nonsense alot of dublin city is very affordable in comparison to other large European cities.
@fedup4190
4 жыл бұрын
This is why I was happy that during the pandemic lockdown people with AirBnb's were struggling to find tenants/ ppl to exploit I wish they could sell on the houses to families/ppl that need them
@AshTanya
4 жыл бұрын
It'll be a shame to see the effects of gentrification get worse once all this covid stuff is done. Imagine all the small businesses that will mever get back on their feet
@smashb3766
3 жыл бұрын
Gentrification already happened stop crying especially when it doesn’t affect you
@blueisblue599
3 жыл бұрын
@@smashb3766 Cry about it troll
@nboyknowsnothing5311
4 жыл бұрын
Love the vid but I feel like when you talk about the aesthetics side you miss out the Black culture element. In 2015 grime as a music genre became more popular and with that so did the black/urban culture which involved (like you said) music, slang, fashion etc. Also certain films(e.g. Anuvahood, the chase, etc) have an influence in slang IMO
@DDoubleEDouble
4 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!! 👏👏👏
@jessicamarie6448
4 жыл бұрын
One thing i noticed is that the issue of race always get left out in these conversations, even those they very much intertwine. I also noticed that grime is classed as "chav" music to many people in middle class, and that honestly really rubs me in the wrong way
@7marina
4 жыл бұрын
exactly, most of the time it's white people copying Black culture (working class and middle class). as in, doing edges, using slang that originated from jamaica. Black culture is the first to be mimicked
@Sam-es2gf
4 жыл бұрын
@@7marina absolute nonsense, there's life outside of london you know
@iloveyoufloyd
4 жыл бұрын
i agreeeeee
@laurencooper3169
4 жыл бұрын
As a mixed race woman in her 20s I have experienced far more incidences of classism than racism. I think a lot of racism in today’s society is really just classism but under a different name.
@lilyhd9131
4 жыл бұрын
Both are intertwined. In a class system race is often seen as a subcategory.
@xavi239
4 жыл бұрын
Yhea people use race to identify class and its just ridiculous
@EC-dg6ti
4 жыл бұрын
Yes this is why some white working class people turn to racism because nobody is listening to their problems. They turn it into black vs white issue when it should be rich vs poor. If the middleclass is yelling at you that you're a privilige white person but you're literally homeless you're going to get fed up at some point
@Kate-zv9wj
4 жыл бұрын
@Tee Gee where does a rich person come from? Where did that wealth come from? From exploiting working class and proletariats for literal centuries. There is no wealth without exploitation. And what is your point exactly? Oh don't hate rich people who are actively not paying their taxes and advocating for shitty destructive policies and using slave labour to profit because they have feeeeelingssssss! Oh no the poor, poor rich person. How will they ever survive. I don't advocate for hating anyone on a personal basis. But I think it's perfectly valid to despise an institution that is actively and purposely keeping you and your people down. And frankly I don't give a fuck if rich poeple hate the poor. I do not want to live in a world so run by their opinion. I want poor people to gain the class consciousness to know what it is they should direct their anger at.
@prettyrat.
4 жыл бұрын
POC were deliberately forced into shitty situations to keep them from ever being on the same level or having the same power as white people. They are intertwined because of this -- racism is racism. Classism is classism. However there was a forced overlap.
@katie7609
4 жыл бұрын
I live in a low income area and I’ve had SO many neighbours as it’s been renovated and sold like four times in six years, it’s honestly so sad. They were all antisocial and never went to any local businesses/pubs, even though we live opposite one... I also go to a middle/upper class school in the suburbs and have been made fun of and insulted purely from where I live but yet they copy low income slang and clothing 👁👄👁
@coniestrellita2014
4 жыл бұрын
people are so dumb wtf
@ameliafoster3633
4 жыл бұрын
your content is so educational and interesting! i had a video idea...the romanticisation of war? i've noticed in movies and books, romantic relationships set during war times are extremely glamourised and it puts the idea of war up on a pedestal almost.
@andyeql
4 жыл бұрын
I got a better idea. The romanticisation of socialism? I've noticed how many people these days think it's the answer to everything even though everytime it's been tried, it's failed miserably.
@daisychainmilk
4 жыл бұрын
@@andyeql Lick boots elsewhere.
@poppy17
4 жыл бұрын
including some perspectives from the North of England in videos like this would be so cool e.g the gentrification of Manchester and Sheffield in the 70s, 80s 90s. Feel like lots of people not from those places have no idea what happened there but might really enjoy/learn a lot from finding out about it and learn a lot about the unique perspectives if northern working class people. There are loads of really good films and tv about northern cities and the process of gentrification going from the industrial revolution all through the 19th and 20th century and up to now. It’s so true that rich middle and upper class young people can dress and act ‘poor’ and ‘rough’ in their private social lives yet still access the best jobs etc etc because they can ‘turn off’ their pretend poorness. This has been SO evident to me while I’ve been studying at an ‘elite’ uk University having arrived here from a working class background surrounded by extremely rich students mostly from the south east of England. While people like me spend time actively trying not to ‘look poor’ in the hopes of being considered for jobs internships etc, they’re trying so hard to have a personality that they resort to stealing the culture of the working class, without suffering any of the consequences. It’s mad.
@maritrndal815
4 жыл бұрын
Not directly about gentrification, but the movie "I, Daniel Blake" truly tackles the government's hatred for low income individuals.
@heyitsanna72
4 жыл бұрын
10000% recommend watching Ken Loach’s latest film ‘sorry we missed you’ (same director) too. It’s about 0 hours contracts and is very poignant
@dirkbogarde44
4 жыл бұрын
Well..........yes and no. Having had yrs in the system, I experienced good and bad. Some people genuinely want to help you....others just have been there so long and seen so much, they don't care about punishing you. It all depends on who your advisor is and how much effort you put into changing your circumstances.
@Ruby-hl2nc
4 жыл бұрын
I'm from america, but i'm from a working class family and let me tell you, the classism I've had to deal with is unreal. I come from a southern state and I have a thick accent and my parents worked their asses off and I did too to make sure I'd get into my dream school, which was a private college. So for the first semester of my college career, I looked scruffy. Old clothes that didn't fit me right anymore and shoes that were two sizes to small. Pair that with the accent I have and you can imagine how many dirty looks I got and how many times i was asked "Are you sure you're meant to be here?" I even had teachers make fun of me. But not the snobby looking girl in the back who had the same accent as me, but nicer close and a gucci belt.
@SnowofLight
4 жыл бұрын
Great video, but as long as Capitalism prevails, there is absolutely no incentive to appeal to low income households at all. Grenfell and it's aftermath tells you everything you need to know.
@mickeycostagain660
4 жыл бұрын
Easy solution to the problem if u can’t afford it move
@SnowofLight
4 жыл бұрын
@@mickeycostagain660 How is that a solution at all? You keep moving and moving and shutting down your businesses until every major city is a ghost town? Or you ignore the problem and move away, and let the fool coming in after you be burnt to a crisp in a pretty tower block instead?
@user-dz2hj6jo5h
4 жыл бұрын
Mickey Costagain you need money to move you prick. Either option is usually not affordable if you’re working class.
@buh_its_me_yall6217
4 жыл бұрын
Not A as long as capitalism is prevalent the working class will never really prevail. Some may be fortunate enough to slip into middle class, but the inequality gap continues to widen as long as big companies control the product of labor. No matter how much you produce, your pay off will come at a stagnant rate, while those at the top continue to get richer as the labor frequency increases. Socialism or at the very least democratic socialism can start programs to help uplift the working class, and can fight for their rights to OWN the means of their production.
@MrSurfsagger
4 жыл бұрын
@@mickeycostagain660 where, exactly? Keep uprooting your life because you keep getting pushed out? It takes money to move
@jenjo1814
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love an examination of what drives the middle class to low income areas. Why can't they afford to start their businesses in middle class areas? Or is it that the incentives to build in lower income areas are too high?
@harambae7014
4 жыл бұрын
Rent prices primarily. If you can allocate a smaller fraction of your revenue to outgoings, you make more profit. They just have to weigh up the benefit of lower rent costs vs the potential for higher revenue if they were to operate in higher-income areas.
@mzmz12345
4 жыл бұрын
A lot of them are probs ‘wannabe’ middle class. They probs can’t actually afford to start businesses in middle class areas! But thing is, they aren’t truly working class to be able to start a business so really it’s just a massive slap in the face for the real working class people who live in the low-income areas! Which just gets worse & worse as their profits get better & better.
@gabi-eg7tg
4 жыл бұрын
i grew up working class and i went out with a middle class guy for a year and a half and i rly felt his lack of class struggle when i once said how hard it was to find a job, to which he replied with 'dont worry about finding a job, you will spend working all your life so relax while you still can!!!' like what???? i cant afford anything in my youth and he's going to uni on an inheritance from his rich aunt lol
@gabi-eg7tg
4 жыл бұрын
heringe yeah that’s why I just finished uni.... my point being that he had an inheritance that he spend with
@Mariamomo_
4 жыл бұрын
So glad you covered this! This performative working-class 'aesthetic' was evident when I went to uni. I grew up on a council estate in North Yorkshire and I was never ashamed but me and my working-class friends wouldn't necessarily shout about it from the rooftops. Meanwhile, the posh girls wearing Adidas trackies and hoop earrings from Urban Outfitters would always talk about how 'poor' they were, which actually meant they'd run out of their parent's money. One girl actually said I was 'lucky' to be given the maximum maintenance loan because my household income was so low, yet she goes on 3 holidays a year🤔 A lot of these students tried to look as skint as possible while simultaneously treating us like a novelty by taking the piss out of our accents/slang etc. There was also a guy who'd have full-on photoshoots on council estates but would squirm when anything to do with class came up in discussion. It was the weirdest experience.
@lillianforrest628
4 жыл бұрын
Please read : I live in one of the two ‘most dangerous’ areas in my city in Cork,Ireland.I can see my area slowly starting to be gentrified - hipsters who used to live in their own hipster middle class areas moving into the private properties in the area and renovating them and raising property prices.What makes me saddest for some reason is watching my mam very much pandering to these people and changing her accent and stories around them.She used to tell me to be proud to be from the northside (working class side) and give out about people calling others ‘common’.Then the other day when we were walking home from one of her gentrifier friends,moving from a very posh area to renovate a cheap house here.When she came to our road she called two teenagers who spat on the street (Ik that’s gross but who cares) ‘common’.She would kill us for saying that about anyone not so long ago.
@lolyoutoobe
4 жыл бұрын
Yes queen of reading and citations, love the way your content has evolved
@eloise5129
4 жыл бұрын
I've been living in Walthamstow for 5 years now and its SO SO SO middle class. My grandparents have lived here for ages and it was so different before, very community based etc. Now its got soo many coffee shops, beer places, boutiques etc. When i got to my local shop there are just white middle class families having beers and drinks everywhere. Its just so so different. Even in the high street there are art shops and health food shops next to chicken and chip shops and off licences. Its really just taking over now. My nan says she used to recognise loads of people she saw as she walked around but now its just new people constantly. There is a massive contrast between the nice new areas with loads of rich white people and then the high street and old flats with mainly POC. Also small houses here cost like 700k. Its crazy.
@StarJellie
4 жыл бұрын
As someone who's working class that went to a middle class secondary school and London uni . . .this hit hard. They all dressed and talked working class & boy did they love AVE but as soon as they had to actually address working class people, disdain was all they had. Imo it was incredibly isolating - they'd look down on you for not being able to go eat out with them, go on school trips, etc. The worst one is they'd shit on you for having old clothes & poor equipment - when they themselves were wearing clothes and had belongings stylised to look common and worn.Every single one of them said they came from "normal" families. I got bullied out of my Irish accent first, and my working class accent second. Them trying to act like me wasn't relatable it was mocking and insensitive. I was never not an unwanted other. The sheer discordance between how class is perceived by those who have the privilege to ignore it and those who actually suffer classism's negative effects is a rot in this country.
@beasttitanofficial3768
4 жыл бұрын
From the moment I started seeing those ads on the internet like "live rent-free in my big flat, I just want a nice young girl to keep me company" I knew we were doomed...
@maheenm.k1015
4 жыл бұрын
@@guinevererodriguez3807 apps like seeking arrangements fill the internet with ads just like tinder does
@jellybean1528
3 жыл бұрын
That sounds like serial killer to me
@beasttitanofficial3768
3 жыл бұрын
@@guinevererodriguez3807 it's not even on that kind of sites. Literally on sites where you're supposed to look for rooms to live, you'll see these ads. Especially in places like London or Dublin where rent is insanely high.
@cristi9593
4 жыл бұрын
Me in California in an area that’s going through gentrification: oH MY GOD TWINS
@TheLamehipster
4 жыл бұрын
Yhea I left LA county and moved to the inland empire because of this. But now rent is going up again and my brother who owns a home has to pay more property taxes because of gentrification
@R3yr3yproductions
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I live near Disney and I'm seeing the same thing happening :(
@angelnafeesa5332
4 жыл бұрын
East San Diego too
@yugoslavia1
4 жыл бұрын
i live near SF and it's so bad here. the tenderloin used to be a neighborhood of low income, mainly poc people and now it's becoming gentrified by rich, white people from the suburbs. it's so heartbreaking to see all the homeless people who you knew used to live in these houses that rich people have taken from them
@whomst5141
4 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of my college classmates from the upper middle class who are in the politics scene and try to seem working class to cast more votes, also lower class students who were part of political parties quit because the leaders tend to be rich people pretending to know what is like to work
@ingusch3783
4 жыл бұрын
The thing about how we're told from childhood on not to display markers of our working class bg really hits home. My mom was really after me and my brother learning to 'speak properly' and dressing well, meanwhile my dad was just using all sorts of slang, wearing his tracksuit all day lmao.
@solitaryclusterofneurons598
4 жыл бұрын
Both these comments resonate deeply. In a big identity crisis and consequently I don't think I'll ever truly fit in anywhere socially. I really don't appreciate how UK working-class culture especially in the past 2-3 years has become trendy whilst simultaneously the people who are using our culture to look cool don't actually like us and feel uncomfortable around us.
@solitaryclusterofneurons598
4 жыл бұрын
Both these comments resonate deeply. In a big identity crisis and consequently I don't think I'll ever truly fit in anywhere socially. I really don't appreciate how UK working-class culture especially in the past 2-3 years has become trendy whilst simultaneously the people who are using our culture to look cool and to market their bs don't actually like us and feel uncomfortable around us.
@LeftHandMedia
4 жыл бұрын
I live in a van in Venice, CA, due to rapid displacement in the LA area. How quickly this neighborhood was gentrified is unprecedented and the lower class who have lived here for generations have had no chance to get their footing. It’s the epicenter of “van life” in the US mostly because of necessity. Worse now, living in a suped up van is becoming hip, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I get displaced because rich kids with new vans took my parking spot
@tuvahope437
4 жыл бұрын
This is so good! Honestly a better explanation of gentrification than I got at uni.
@broombed7888
4 жыл бұрын
What i really find interesting is how all discriminations work the same way. Gender, ethnicity/race and class discrimination are all soooo damn entangled and they are structured literally the same way, and it's exactly why we need intersectionality
@princeofchetarria5375
4 жыл бұрын
IMO people should only be allowed to own one property, and the rest should belong to the state. The housing crisis in UK is insane honestly and there are so many people who are renting from private landlords despite really wanting to be homeowners. Edit/ just got to the part of the video where you say to abolish landlords. Yes!! Abolish landlords, and end second home ownership!!
@guinevererodriguez3807
4 жыл бұрын
Omg yes. And if you’re wealthy enough to own multiple houses throughout the country you can RENT them, which would solve having houses around that aren’t being used, and also not wasting resources. Like, there could be a select few homes that would be rented by the wealthy and the money goes into the country
@Tom_Samad
4 жыл бұрын
I completely reject this extreme communist view. You cannot put limitations on very successful people.
@dj62673
4 жыл бұрын
They do not need excessive amounts of property and as she said in the video houses are to live in, not an investment.
@4TheWinQuinn
4 жыл бұрын
If you want more housing, more school places, better wages and more opportunities for working class, have a sensible immigration policy. Simple. Been proven time and time again uncontrolled mass immigration of low skilled workers severely harms the poorest in the native country and makes the rich richer. I’m left wing and it’s the one thing I never see any left wing person care about.
@mossyrocktv4629
4 жыл бұрын
@@4TheWinQuinn The UK lost over 170,000 council homes since 2010. There is enough to go around. We should not blame each other, thats what the capitalists want, we should ask why they're hoarding wealth when there's 4 million children, white, black and Asian, in this country living in poverty
@keiwi1312
3 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what is happening where I live, in parkhead, an area in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland. This is a historically deprived and "working class" area, where majority of housing was council or social housing, now, so many of those houses have been demolished to build housing for the middle to upper classes who now have moved here and brought a hostile environment as they will look down their nose at those who are for example from the high rise flats, or streets they deem particularly "bad". Not only that but the precense of upper classes in a mostly deprived area causes homegrown business to be pushed out in favour of these fancy boujie businesses which cater to the upper classes but nobody else here can fucking afford to shop there. For example, corner shops which are an absolute staple in so many communities in Glasgow are having their owners booted out due to increasing rents, these are shops where so many residents rely on the easily accessible and fairly priced essentials. Take that away and replace it with a posh coffee shop... Like do we see the problem?? Loved your video. Luv ur vibe and presence!
@regu6681
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Grew up poor in Leeds (Seacroft!) and our teachers at school would berate us for not "talking proper", which wasn't them nitpicking genuinely incorrect use of language, but the quirks and and patterns of our natural dialect / accent. As an adolescent we moved to live with my aunt in Lincolnshire, and my secondary had a lot of former private school transplants because of the large airbase population. For the most part kids my age were charmed by my accent, adults less so, but one thing I always noticed was that the more well off kids started using surprisingly "northern" terminology and dressing chavvy (I get I shouldn't really be using the word now, but I'm reclaiming it lmao) by the time they got to their mid-teens, which was about the point that council estate chic became cool for whatever reason. Most of them went off to Oxbridge. It was made very clear many times that them and I are not the same, do not lead the same lives or enjoy the same opportunities, so I couldn't help always feeling a bit miffed that they were ripping me off in a weird way. A lot of em claimed to be socialist but it was always the stupid performative stuff. My dad and I are both socialist to the core, fwiw. I'll never forget the study which revealed that similarly qualified people with northern accents were far less likely to be offered a job after an interview. I've always been trained to mask my accent, dress properly, be a constant overachiever - because being a poor northerner means having everything else against you otherwise. To this day I have a very ambiguous English accent around new people until I get super comfortable with them, and that never used to be the case. I have absolutely no control over it. And I love my Leeds accent!
@sophiedorrington
4 жыл бұрын
such a genuinely interesting video🤍 i think it highlights SO well how performative people are in regards to voting! i am absolutely loving your videos & feels so great to have some education that will actually benefit my life and my beliefs. i feel if i ever have discussions on this topic with friends or family i will be much more knowledgeable & i really appreciate it! a lot of my friends and their family’s vote tory and just don’t realise their privilege at all. my friends brother adopts the ‘working class’ mannerisms that you highlighted and their family is upper class. it honestly baffles me! she has explained her parents reasonings of voting tory as they don’t want to increase money into benefits as people on benefits are ‘lazy’. it makes me so angry because my family are on benefits and it’s just so not the case. it’s easy to say that when you send your children to private school & have a fat pay check LOL! loved the video & the background, much love🤍
@kaz1819
4 жыл бұрын
Middle class+ people that think working-class is aesthetic are people that have clearly watched too much Skins and thought it looked "rebellious" and "cool".
@notverysur3rightnow145
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah working class is working manual labour jobs often and not having much money. Not wearing certain clothes. If you like tracksuits that’s fine but wearing it to pretend to be poor is ridiculous.
@ryankelly2109
4 жыл бұрын
The characters in Skins are definitely middle class though.
@otempora4265
4 жыл бұрын
it would be really interesting to see your take on the glorification of the upper class
@SoVidushi
4 жыл бұрын
What on earth is that?
@Sleipnirseight
4 жыл бұрын
Yes!!! I'm so excited for this! I first heard this concept defined and discusssd in a sociology class. You see it all through history of modern fashion, music and slang. And it's not just appropriation of working class culture, but of other social minority groups, too, because it's seen by privileged youth as edgy and rebellious, then it becomes more mainstream and comodified.
@beyondthebracken
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm so glad someone is speaking about this topic! I remember my family being in housing waiting lists for over a decade while I was growing up! I still live in a council estate now too. Housing is one of the biggest issues for the UK and it goes beyond just lack of council housing, it's as you said, gentrification. Love how you mentioned the coffee shops and cafes too lol!! Thought I was the only one who took notice of that!! Haha, there was one where I used to live who used to sell tea for around £3-5 ! Rip off. Excellent video!
@itschansey
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Hackney and visit my grandmother down there regularly. It's actually so sad to see how the character has been diminished and the people exchanged :( It's also incredibly important to look at this from an intersectional perspective. My family is Jamaican and came over per the request of the British government after the war, the caribbeans built hubs in the city after being rejected by the white racist working and middle classes of London. These hubs we're over-policed, with the innocent newcomers being terrorised by all the aforementioned. Subsequently, fast-forwarding to 2020 - they have now been stolen from them through the process of gentrification, thus displacing them and wiping their history and alluring borough characteristics that MADE the place alluring, with it.
@nboynathan
4 жыл бұрын
Yo Jordan, there's is a good song that describes the struggle working-class people called Community Outkast by Devlin the song tells stories different people go through
@aislinnlewis-smith4512
4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this series. I would love for you to do more similar ones. You are so well educated and come across (and clearly are) so intelligent. What you are doing is so incredible! ☺️
@ems9616
4 жыл бұрын
Its really great to see people talking about this! I grew up in poverty in Kent to working class parents, and the spectre of the 'chav' hovered over my whole childhood. I was desprately terrified of being seen as lazy, i was discouraged from deveoping/keeping my native accent, and me and my friends were constantly having to figure out if we were looking too chavy or speeking too chavy. My working class-ness has even been bought up in academic contexts to suggest that I don't kow what I'm talking about. And there's often little to no acknowledgement of classism as a serious form of discrimination. It's great that you're taking the time and energy to educae yourself and your audience! I actually think if you're intersted in gentrificaion you might find it useful to look at second home/holiday homes in rural areas- especially deprived seaside towns. In these cases the gentrification can very quickly destroy the local area by pricing homes out of the reach of new families and causing local buisnesses to go bust. Countryfile did a profile on St Ives www.countryfile.com/news/what-is-the-impact-of-second-home-ownership-in-rural-britain/ when they were experiencing this problem but the issue can be pretty widespread. The Rural Services network rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-poverty also seem pretty good, because they talk about some of the ways rural poverty looks different to urban poverty. Not to say one is more valid than another- just to expand your picture on working class life a little broader. you might also like Darren McGarveys book Poverty Safari ( www.amazon.co.uk/Poverty-Safari-Darren-McGarvey/dp/1912147033 ) which goes into a lot more detail on how middle class people can coopt working class aesthetics and spaces.
@Genesis-il6jy
Жыл бұрын
this video was done a while ago but I'm glad you gave me words to express my personal ick on the resurgence of the paisley bandanas. Gang culture was and still is quite the issue where I grew up (but again where is it not), and lots of kids in middle and high school were or knew someone in a gang. Paisley bandanas were banned at school for that reason, and it's basically impossible to buy them new in the town now. Seeing them be brought back as a trendy item somehow feels all kinds of bad, especially when no one I have met that follows the trend even seems aware of the bandana's meaning
@tmackay6817
4 жыл бұрын
girl im loving this lefttube inspired lighting 😌💞💖 contrapoints would be proud. youre really out here serving looks and educating us im so here for it!!!
@FrancescaGeorgiou
4 жыл бұрын
i would like for us all to discuss lily allen's working class appropriation in the mid-late 2000s thank you
@broombed7888
4 жыл бұрын
Why appropriation?
@raawrsome
4 жыл бұрын
@@broombed7888 She's the daughter of a famous actor, but was very much portrayed as a working class person that she played up to.
@broombed7888
4 жыл бұрын
@@raawrsome thanks for responding! I'm not british and i've always known her as a working class/labour supporter but apparently i was wrong? I usually see her post about those topics and it's quite hard for me to recognize the UK's working class appropriation as i'm not very familiar with it
@FrancescaGeorgiou
4 жыл бұрын
@@broombed7888 Totally makes sense! You can be labour and working class or labour and middle/upper class. Lily Allen put on a working class accent, style of writing and aesthetic so it was basically how she got famous. But from what I know, when it came to famous, previously working class women in the UK (like Amy Winehouse), she would look down on them
@FrancescaGeorgiou
4 жыл бұрын
@Max Gisborne I'm definitely intrigued by the labels influence. And "Alright, Still" is a bop of an album but there's a lot about it that feels insincere, the working class signals being major in that. I think her spat with then Cheryl Tweedy (a working class woman who then catapulted into stardom) is worth exploring too. The way Allen looked down on working class women - arguably because of a dis-interest in getting to actually know the struggle - while presenting herself as one and profiting from it has given me yikes vibes for years. I just wish the topic was explored!!
@emjenkins464
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like the only good regeneration project I've ever seen was the £1 house scheme. It made property ownership more manageable (anyone who had been saving up for a mortgage would be has enough to complete a good/medium quality house). It focuses on keeping the original neighbourhood and filling the houses, rather than full rebuilding. Apparently it's being planned for some of the South Wales ghost towns to try and keep young people in Wales
@DrinkingMud
4 жыл бұрын
Can we just acknowledge how rare it is for a comment section on any youtube video to be this smart and thought provoking? There are great discussions here!
@kitty4502
4 жыл бұрын
One of the things I find so sad about the process of gentrification is that "things getting better" - eg. The potholes being fixed as mentioned in this video have become synonymous with gentrification rather than a basic right. This has a particular sting in such wealthy supposedly "liberal" cities as London - quality of life should not be dependent on appeasing the sensibilities of the middle claas.
@TransMascNurse
4 жыл бұрын
Also (thinking of my experience in DC, USA) how if neighborhoods do get a chance for new resources like a transit line or bike lanes or a grocery store people very reasonably consider rejecting them even if they want them bc they are worried it will drive up rents
@steamvyrus6249
4 жыл бұрын
I really like these sociology sort of videos, they're really informative! :-)
@WoahMissGrace
4 жыл бұрын
Wehayyyyy Brizzle represent! I relate to the accent thing so much! I’m from a working class area in Bristol but went to a secondary school that was middle class. I got the absolute shit ripped out of my accent - one particular incident where I pronounced ‘horizontal’ as ‘orrizon’al’. I made a conscious effort to sound a bit more ‘posh’ because I was so self conscious about it. Years later and all the posh horse girls are putting on the BAITEST fake Bristolian accent, has always made me feel so mad and uncomfortable and you put it into words so well! I also grew up on drum and bass and all that good stuff despite being the weird emo kid which they all pretend to have done despite listening to Ellie Goulding and One Direction lmaoooooo. Honestly your recent videos are so fucking good because I have always said politics and social issues have always used language that purposefully alienate the working class and make them feel like they’re too stupid to understand so they don’t bother, but you have broken it down into simple terms. Thank you so much!
@banananess1499
4 жыл бұрын
The gentrification of elephant and castle is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen My brother and his mum live there so I’d come over from Ireland and stay with them a few months of the year Watching Hay-gate disappear and these hipster shops pop up and I’ve heard their trying. To get rid of the elephant and castle shop itself now to so it can redone It’s so crazy to me. I miss the place I was in growing up
@michellerubio_
4 жыл бұрын
I live in echo park/silverlake in LA and oh my goodness did it get hit hard with gentrification. It was once a full latino and minority overall area and within a few years it's been bought out by rich people only to be converted to coffee shops, bars, overpriced vitamin/wellness stores etc. The most recent ironic change was El pollo loco converting to a Sweetgreen and a coin car wash into an overprices salad shop. It really was symbolic of us minorities being pushed out to suit the rich kids.
@thedtw_
4 жыл бұрын
Girl you spoke facts and I’m here for it 🙌🏾
@yusra4284
4 жыл бұрын
this is a huge problem in australia as well, particularly sydney and melbourne!
@Chottlytte
4 жыл бұрын
been waiting so long for this comrade
@jordanatheresa
4 жыл бұрын
i hope u enjoy it!
@harambae7014
4 жыл бұрын
Wadiyatalkinabeet?
@eev14
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I'm someone who grew up in a middle class family (where on my dad's side there's a working class background and my mother's side middle class) I was taught how to act a certain way, I was perfectly middle class.. But then my dad transitioned to become a woman and simultaneously lost the company she was running. From the age of 12 onwards we started to struggle, my parents were entering a divorce, I had to give up my hobbies (horsebackriding, singing and field hockey), we were also being outcast and targeted by our community due to my dad being trans. When my parents divorced I chose to go live with my dad who moved into a big city and so I moved as well. I was new there, we were now poor (living in a small apartment where my bedroom was a former closet) and I for the first time went to a public school where not only most others were lower class but also very racially diverse, in fact only less than 30% of students there were white, it opened my eyes to a different reality. However we tried desperately to cling onto our previous middle class status, wanting to continue to be seen by others as such but not having the money to really get involved in anything we ended up being quite isolated. Now as an adult I still appear to others as a middle class woman, so the moment they find out I truly struggle to even afford my basic needs (i'm talking food, menstrual pads, medication and clothes) they are taken aback.. Lower class people who meet me tend to dislike me as they assume I am privileged, they'll rarely even engage with me at all, and middle class people tend to assume I am like them to eventually discover that my life is nothing like theirs and they find it hard to relate to me. I often feel stuck between a rock and a hard place, I'd like to be accepted by both lower and middle class people but am currently residing outside of both sides of society and find that I still try to look mostly middle class, though my language use has changed quite a lot over the years. Ending up in poverty after growing up privileged makes you more aware of class differences than likely anyone else is but unfortunately that means you also know you are constantly fighting the system and capitalism as a whole just to get through life. Because I've been on both sides of the class divide I feel like a fake in both directions. I can't afford to participate in middle class culture even if I'd wanted to and my demeanor, language and looks don't fit in with lower class. Navigating society with this higher (than average) level of awareness means you confront people with the ugly truth and nobody really wants to have that conversation. From where I am at I feel like there is a problem in our lower classes having a harsher racial divide than our middle classes which unfortunately makes it impossible for our lower classes to come together and stand up against the negative consequences they all face due to capitalism. I don't see us being able to beat capitalism in our country as politically speaking our lower class doesn't stand a chance as the right-winged populist parties are actively riling people up against each other as to indirectly benefit the most wealthy people in our society. It's a rather complex system that in the way it's set up seems to have as an endgoal to push away, hide or even kill the lower class.
@beckywaytoomuch
3 жыл бұрын
This is so eloquently put and I resonate greatly with your experience. Thank you for taking such time and care writing this.
@carolruffini7702
2 жыл бұрын
Know you made this video a year ago but I really appreciate that you have covered this topic. I feel like we often dodge talking about classism. My mother lived in the Hamptons before it became a playground for the rich and famous. Her childhood home is worth a million now. She always says “we used to have potato farms. Now there are vineyards”. During the pandemic the Hudson Valley, where I live now, was the place all the city people have moved to. Small businesses folded during the pandemic and are being bought out and redone by Manhattanites. Our property values are skyrocketing and I am unsure I will be able to afford living here in the future. It’s very sad.
@8ml888
4 жыл бұрын
I like where this channel is going.
@bruisedviolets
4 жыл бұрын
i know how hard you worked on this!! can’t wait to watch 💞
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