Ok so I've heard about these kinds of people from UK escapist for a while now, and I'm curious as to what is a Chav? Is it like the punk kids in the Michael Caine movie Harry Brown? Are they generally really violent thugs or are they just a sub-culture of the general UK culture? Are they in all parts of the UK or just England? Final question, when did being a chav become widespread and why did it become popular?