It’s hardcore takin over za interwebz with mah gangsta skeelz!” The club in the bad part of town is a zef place.Īfrikaans slang for “redneck” as coined by Die Antwoord I met this person that was zef to the max. The party you threw last weekend was really zef. This is mostly used as an insult, degrading a status of a person/place. Originated from the Afrikaanse langauge as a slang word, describing the status quo of a person/place.
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“zef sure knows how to suck the wingaling” It’s something you experience like a video game when you reach the next level, that’s basically zef. It’s not something you can really explain. It is zef to be yourself, to be honest about your humble origins and to be proud of it. More recently, South African rap artists Die Antwoord and Jack Parow would be the embodiment of what zef is. Usually young men who drove Ford Zephyrs, hung their arm out of the window, and wore a comb stuck into one sock would be considered zef. The word could also be used in a derogatory manner by someone who considered themself of higher class or better breeding.īernoldus Niemand aka James Phillips, a South African musician who came from a mining town is a good example of a zef person and so is some of his lyrics eg: Welcome to my car. The word would be used to describe the style of a particular person. Being truly zef takes guts.”įila takkies and chappies bubble gum…thats zef.ĭuring the 60’s and 70’s the Ford Zephyr was a favourite car by a particular group of South Africans, they also often wore a comb in their socks, and were considered as ‘common’ or kitch or low class by others, the term ZEF was coined to descibe them. “It’s like wearing high heels with a tracksuit. However, it not nesessarily a derogatory term. Zef style has strong 1980s influences and is stereotypically associated South African caucasians of low-middle social-economic status. South African term that can be likened to ‘Kitch’ or ‘common’. Research on subcultures has often focused on deviance (for example, on criminal subcultures). Subcultures can be based on diverse factors, including where people live, shared interests or profession, age, ethnicity, and religion. An example of a subculture in the United States is the culture of Mormons, who share beliefs that differ from those of dominant United States culture (for example, that Joseph Smith experienced divine revelation) and practice distinct customs (such as door-to-door missionary work). In sociology, the concept of subculture explains the behavior of some social groups sociologists study subcultures as one way of studying culture. the cultural patterns distinctive of such a group.Ī subculture is a culture within a broader mainstream culture, with its own separate values, practices, and beliefs. a group having social, economic, ethnic, or other traits distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society.ī. One culture of microorganisms derived from another.Ī.
A cultural subgroup differentiated by status, ethnic background, residence, religion, or other factors that functionally unify the group and act collectively on each member.Ģ.
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