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 ::I'm going to step back from this a bit and see if we can come to a satisfactory resolution. It is clear to me that Ali G must be covered somehow in this article, perhaps in a manner that acknowledges wide public opinion while including a more robust analysis, e.g., distinction between a chav and a wigger (if there is one, and if they are not overlapping sets). The problem here is that to a vast number of people, Ali G is not merely a chav, but is the (canonical) chav. And since the character pre-dates the term, part of the popular definition of ""chav"" is ""person that resembles (style, language, etc.) Ali G"". That is a difficult thing to handle. One of the things I found annoying in Chocolateboy's edits was reference to the Ali G material as an ""anachronism"". That's simply inapposite. Sacha Baron Cohen created a character that satirized a particular stereotype of class, language, clothing, etc. Simply because that stereotype later became referred to as a ""chav"" does not make it incorrect to report the label.  "