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- Dec 10, 2019
I’ve been a casual fan of British media, and to a lesser extent Grime music, for a while and this is something I’ve been curious of lately. When I first started paying attention to British culture I distinctly remember respecting the fact that their blacks didn't call eachother nigger all the time, but I’ve been noticing it appearing more and more in their media.
As an American I’ve always lived with blacks using the word to refer to eachother or other people, but I didn’t think it was as common in UK culture. It seems though that in all their(“black british”) content in the last 10-15 years it’s become much more common to the point of ubiquity. Has this crept into their vocabulary as a result of the Americanization of western culture or is this something that’s always been there but I’d somehow missed?
It just sounds weird to have these people who don’t have the same excuse of things in history like Jim Crow laws and segregation in the US speaking from the same ‘chip-on-the-shoulder” position of American blacks.
As an American I’ve always lived with blacks using the word to refer to eachother or other people, but I didn’t think it was as common in UK culture. It seems though that in all their(“black british”) content in the last 10-15 years it’s become much more common to the point of ubiquity. Has this crept into their vocabulary as a result of the Americanization of western culture or is this something that’s always been there but I’d somehow missed?
It just sounds weird to have these people who don’t have the same excuse of things in history like Jim Crow laws and segregation in the US speaking from the same ‘chip-on-the-shoulder” position of American blacks.
