Meaning of yookay | Babel Free

Definitions

The United Kingdom, as having been impacted by perceived failures in multiculturalist policy.

UK, derogatory

Examples

“What is most intolerable and unreal in existing projections of "England" or "Britain" is their historical and cultural ignorance. "The Yookay", of course, is neither historical nor cultural; it is a jargon term of commercial and military planning.”

“Rucksacked Deliveroo cyclists in convoy, swarming along road and pavement. Tattered, pockmarked high streets, enlivened only by phone shops, chicken shops and random outbursts of violence. And, most prominently, black and South Asian men, the former threateningly ski-masked and communicating exclusively through drill rap, the latter combining an aggressively masculine form of Islam with inner-city gang culture. Welcome to “the yookay”, the verbal and social corruption of “the UK” that so much of the political right believes it sees in modern Britain.”

“The multicultural Britain of today, or “yookay” as it has come to be disparagingly called, has since taken on a character all of its own, a long way from the “narrow, English-dominated” society derided by the Parekh Report.”

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