Bogan Pride
Bogan pride is probably the most important cultural development of the bogan culture. Calling someone a bogan used to be essentially saying: “You’re beneath me.” Increasingly, people started saying: “Yep. I’m a bogan. Got a problem with that?” That is classic cultural reclamation. The same process has happened with many supposedly derogatory identities around the world. But Australian bogan pride has a particularly Australian flavour because it overlaps with: Roslyn Rowen’s research specifically links the positive reappropriation of “bogan” with Australian nationalism and the Australian tendency to celebrate the “ordinary” person.
