... young man who behaves in a very rude, offensive and sometimes violent way."(Cambridge Dictionary) Contrasting to that, the definition of cultured was; "describes someone who has had a good education and knows a lot about art, music, literature, etc." (Cambridge Dictionary) As one can see, the difference between the two is massive. Although the cultured definition gives a slightly better description of what kind of person they would be, we can imagine the kind of background that a yob might have. The stereotypical image of a yob has changed in appearance but the mentality has remained basically the same however the image and mentality of a cultured person has not changed at all. We still get the picture of a person with thick rimmed glasses and bland clothes. The problem with using one term to describe a large group of people is that it often over-generalises. Although people within one group ...

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