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ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO
#23375633 - 06/23/16 11:31 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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You closed it before I had a chance! I also heard it is short for brahmin (India)

Bro is a male youth subculture of "conventional guys' guys" who spend time partying in ways similar to each other. Although the popular image of bro lifestyle is associated with sports apparel and fraternities, it lacks a consistent definition. Some aspects vary regionally such as in California where it overlaps with surf culture.[1] Oxford Dictionaries have noted that bros frequently self-identify with neologisms containing the word "bro" as a prefix or suffix.
Etymology and history[edit] Bro was originally an abbreviated form of "brother" but began to assume non-familial connotations in the 20th century.[2] In this evolution, it was first used to refer to another man, such as a "guy" or "fellow", or sometimes, specifically, a black man. In these ways, it was semantically similar to the use of "brother". In the 1970s, bro came to refer to a male friend rather than just another man. The word became associated with young men, "conventional guys' guys" who spend time partying in ways similar to each other. Oxford Dictionaries identified the use of the term "bro" as the one "defining feature" of the changing cultural attributes of young manhood.[2]
The applications of bro subculture correlate with neologisms that include the word. The word is used as a modifier for compound terms such as "brogrammer" and "curlbro".[2] The word brah is used similarly, and is sometimes combined as "bro-brahs". Oxford Dictionaries wrote that the term "lends itself" to compounding and blending, with combinations such as "bro-hug" and "bro-step" and portmanteaux such as "bro-down", "bromance", and "brohemian". This creation of neologisms was called "portmanbros" by 2009. Oxford Dictionaries compared this trend to man- prefixes (e.g., man cave, mansplaining, manscaping) but noted that the bro portmanteaux subset refers to a smaller portion of masculinity. Oxford Dictionaries also noted that many of the terms were "stunt coinages" with little hope of widespread adoption. However, the term "bromance", whose first usage was recorded in a 2001 issue of TransWorld Surf, entered the Oxford English Dictionary. The term "bro-hug" was used at least eight times in The New York Times between 2010 and 2013 and "brogrammer" once became the center of Silicon Valley gender conversations. In comparison to the "hipster" modifier, Oxford Dictionaries called the "bro" modifier more playful, and responsible for making the subculture "ripe for (often self-inflicted) mockery".[2]
Identity[edit]
Fraternity brothers are commonly associated with bro subculture Oxford Dictionaries identifies bros metonymously as those who themselves use the word to refer to others, such as in the example of "don't tase me, bro", in which the taser is not a bro, but the tased is.[2] The subculture is not defined consistently or concretely,[2] but refers to a type of "fratty masculinity",[3] predominantly "if not exclusively" white,[2] associated with frayed-brim baseball hats, oxford shirts, sports team T-shirts, cargo shorts, and boat shoes or sandals.[3] NPR also noted that bros could include people of color and women, though that is not the popular conception of bro subculture.[3] Oxford Dictionaries recognized Barney Stinson's character on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as "the quintessence of a certain iteration of the contemporary bro" and noted how his language uses the word liberally.[2] A survey from NPR's Codeswitch blog named popular figures such as Matthew McConaughey, Brody Jenner, Joe Rogan, Dane Cook, and John Mayer as representative of bro subculture, with Ryan Lochte as their "platonic ideal of bro-dom".[3]
The wide-ranging iterations of bro include "twenty-something investment bankers", fraternity brothers in flannel shirts, and "laconic surfers". NPR identified four types of bros: dudely, jockish, preppy, and stoner-ish.[2] In their description, dudely bros form close and homosocial friendships in a group of bros, jockish bros are defined by ability at team sports tempered by interest in alcohol, preppy bros wear "conservatively casual" clothes as the Abercrombie and Fitch sons of Brooks Brothers men and flaunt "social privilege", and stoner-ish bros may not get high but speak relaxedly and exude the air of surfers.[3]
Lax bro subculture is defined as a laid-back ("chill") lifestyle associated with the lacrosse field sport. The bounds of the subculture are loose, but its character traits include "understated confidence that critics call arrogance", long hair (known as "lettuce"), colorful board shorts, flat-brim baseball hats, and colorful half-calf socks. The bands O.A.R., Dispatch, and Dave Matthews Band are associated with lax bros. Typical lax bro "attitude and style" are common in middle schools and universities according to a 2012 report in The Boston Globe. Enthusiasts praise the subculture's "sense of identity" and popularization of a sport indigenous to America, while detractors take issue with the "preppie/frat boy image that glories elitism and wealth, and values flash over hard work".[4]
Southern California or "909'er" bro subculture is associated with a motocross, cannabis-smoking, and partying lifestyle. Many are listeners of Kottonmouth Kings, Insane Clown Posse, and Good Charlotte - confirming their relationship to the heavily related Juggalos. Their fashion is known for its flat-billed hats with bandanas underneath, Dickies, fat-tongued skate shoes, and wearing motocross lifestyle brands such as Metal Mulisha, Famous Stars and Straps, Skin Industries, and Affliction.[5]
In 2013, former Microsoft game designer Daniel Cook wrote that the company was responsible for developing the bro subculture within video gaming, explaining that the "Xbox put machismo, ultra-violence and chimpboys with backwards caps in the spotlight. [...] Gamers were handed a pre-packaged group identity via the propaganda machine of a mega corporation." Cook writes that Microsoft has done this in order to distance the Xbox from its console competitors, which were portrayed as "kids platform[s]".[6]
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tyrannicalrex said: You closed it before I had a chance!
Ah sorry man, people were confusing my curiosity about it for 'bitching', and seeing as there's a bit of a staff movement to warm up the atmosphere in the Pub I thought it best to close the thread before animosity took hold.
Really appreciate your thread and explanation though, thank's for that man!!
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LOLOL! Foockin 'ell!
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Just noticed I'm dominating the last word on the first 7 threads!
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A new personal best!
When Jokebeard mentioned "confused for my bitchin" i thought it meant like bitchin', as in "bro, thats a bitchin' shirt!".
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Oh my good god. I work with this annoying guy who's 18 I think and sits next to me every damn day and says "BRAH!!!" and makes that exact face all day every day.. Me and the other coworkers always talk about this guy (in a funny/not bashing on him kinda way) and how he looks like young Paul mccartney. And he makes the exact same face in that picture. This picture made me think of this guy immediately before I even realized it.
I must show this to the troops. They'll probably laugh non-stop.
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Somehow, I don't think that people that say 'brah', 'bruv' or 'blud' have the same intention in mind.
Don't be so quick to judge, people are different, people express things differently. 
I personally find myself getting annoyed when people use the word "brother" too often, it can sound fake and insincere if overused in my opinion.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: 1234go]
#23376322 - 06/24/16 07:07 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Boomer the Great said: Pretty sure Dog the Bounty Hunter is who made it really big outside Hawaii.
LOL.
That show is the first place I ever heard it. I don't think I've ever heard someone say it in person, just tv and movies. I do hear people say "bro" once in a while.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: 1234go]
#23376323 - 06/24/16 07:07 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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that one i agree with.
in fact i was just thinking about how indifferent i was to most things until you mentioned insincerity.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: psi]
#23376352 - 06/24/16 07:14 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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psi said: That show is the first place I ever heard it. I don't think I've ever heard someone say it in person, just tv and movies. I do hear people say "bro" once in a while.
Really? I remember hearing it quite a bit growing up, in person and on tv.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: Apostle]
#23376369 - 06/24/16 07:19 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Apostle said: that one i agree with.
in fact i was just thinking about how indifferent i was to most things until you mentioned insincerity.
I'm not exactly following..
Which "one" do you agree with? What indifference's do you speak of?
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: 1234go]
#23376570 - 06/24/16 08:18 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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psi said: That show is the first place I ever heard it. I don't think I've ever heard someone say it in person, just tv and movies. I do hear people say "bro" once in a while.
Really? I remember hearing it quite a bit growing up, in person and on tv.
Yeah not that I noticed. I can't think of any examples of it in 80s or 90s (or earlier) tv or movies.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: psi]
#23376672 - 06/24/16 08:56 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Airborne - Mitchell Goosen (1993)
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: 1234go]
#23376740 - 06/24/16 09:19 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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There you go. Never heard of that one, but if it had Jack Black and Seth Green in it then I guess it was pretty mainstream.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: psi]
#23376758 - 06/24/16 09:26 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I remember hearing it in Zoolander too, that wasn't 90's though.
I wish I remembered more examples, this discussion is of the utmost importance.
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Re: ORIGIN OF BRAH/BRO [Re: 1234go]
#23376921 - 06/24/16 10:19 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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whats going on brah?
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It's the wee sal!
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Son in law, great old movie. Grindaaage.
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