What constitutes nouveau or boujis to you?

[chelseabunny]

Trying to explain the concept to my dc but it's hard.
I remember reading on here once
"If you have to ask if something might be naff it probably is"

Do you mean nouveau riche? And bourgeois or..?

Yes nouveau Riche
And boujis/bourgeois

Boujis and nouveau riche are the same?

Why on earth would you want to explain these snobby concepts to your dc. I didn’t know boujie was from bourgeois btw, I thought it meant making something a bit special/ titivated, I’d use it to describe doing a french tuck on a T-shirt, adding a necklace and heals. Or adding pomegranate seeds to a salad.

I mean it’s just new money isn’t it?

I didn't think they were really the same (well as in I know nouveau and bourgeois have similar albeit not quite the same connotations) but I thought the young people I know use bouji a lot to mean 'fancy' ie in a positive way rather than saying something is tacky and classless albeit blingy like nouveau means - ie let's go for a bouji lunch (I'm 41, colleagues in their 20s tend to say it quite a bit)

Bouje/ bougie/ bougie etc seems to mean a bit posh nowadays but with a slight undertone of tastelessness

Do you mean boujee as in "bad and boujee"? Opposite of hood rich?

Boujee is showing off / too good for certain things as if one is superior to the norm.

Nouveau Riche is having money but no class as you weren't raised with class and culture.

Nouveau Roche =new rich = new money ie you are new Rich as apposed to. Landed gentry inherited wealth lord and lady I think of a builder I don't think anything negative of somebody who is new money but people calling someone new money is usually snobby

Bourgeoisie is the ruling class according to Marx
Boujee is new term used differently to say something is fancy posh trendy in maybe a avocado on sourdough middle class way