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Should public parks belong to whoever is most successful at scaring everyone who's not their friends away from them? I'm afraid that's how you get ghettoes. Filled mostly with older teen/young adult men, not young girls, mind.
A Scottish ghetto? In Scotland?
A ned/chav ghetto. Despite the best efforts of intermeddling foreigners to obfuscate this, it remains obvious to anyone who actually lives in the UK that social class and not race determines who to avoid.
I think Scotland writ large (the parts of it containing Scottish people, anyways) has been best avoided by the upper crust on this basis for hundreds of years, though?
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My response to this doesn't quite rise to the level of a gigachad, but it's close. I am very much not pro "CHOP/CHAZ"-adjacent behavior, and if it ever reaches that point, with youth gangs permanently occupying large public spaces and accosting anyone who passes near, that is obviously bad. But I think groups of youths having a place they feel is "their spot" and yelling at anyone who comes too close to "fuck off" is just teens doing dumb teen shit, and that's what this tends to look like in practice. My experience is they're also likely to try to bum some smokes or get you to buy them some booze. Antisocial, sure, but I wouldn't say it's turning the neighborhood into a ghetto. I think this kind of low-level dysfunction is pretty close to unavoidable in urban areas without extreme measures.
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