Do bogans really exist? I can't believe that people might try to claim otherwise:
"It's an oppressive social construction, it doesn't really exist because blah blah..."
Yes, but the label is just as useful and appropriate to explain what is going on as the terms bourgeois and proletariat. It exists because, well, what else are you going to call the type of person? We have hippies, yuppies, homies, surfies, soccer mums, nerds and yes, we have bogans too. Here's my take:
A bogan is the poor, working class, except one that has adopted the ideas and sterile culture that serve the interests of the ruling class. Rather than be economically poor, the ideas and mannerisms they have adopted have left them culturally poor.
Like racism, homophobia, sexism, watchin tha footy, dancing with the stars, eatting at maccas, getting farked up on cheap beer and hating bloody commies n unions and those god damn farkin hippes that keep tryin to take away my right to go huntin and 4WD bush bashin.
Bogans do exist, they're the working class that the ruling class have always wanted.
"It's an oppressive social construction, it doesn't really exist because blah blah..."
Yes, but the label is just as useful and appropriate to explain what is going on as the terms bourgeois and proletariat. It exists because, well, what else are you going to call the type of person? We have hippies, yuppies, homies, surfies, soccer mums, nerds and yes, we have bogans too. Here's my take:
A bogan is the poor, working class, except one that has adopted the ideas and sterile culture that serve the interests of the ruling class. Rather than be economically poor, the ideas and mannerisms they have adopted have left them culturally poor.
Like racism, homophobia, sexism, watchin tha footy, dancing with the stars, eatting at maccas, getting farked up on cheap beer and hating bloody commies n unions and those god damn farkin hippes that keep tryin to take away my right to go huntin and 4WD bush bashin.
Bogans do exist, they're the working class that the ruling class have always wanted.
