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Predominantly Jamaican, the term "yardie" comes from a West Indian term, "back yard", meaning "back home", that is, the Caribbean.
Many of today's yardies are the children or grandchildren of the thousands of immigrants who came to the UK during the post- World War II economic boom the country experienced caused new jobs to be created, and thus, people to fill those jobs came to the UK from all across the British Empire.
As this economic boom began to fade, many of these Caribbean immigrants either lost their jobs or had their wages cut, causing many to move to the poorer, more rundown suburbs.
The situation that many poor, predominantly Afro-Caribbean areas of cities such as London, is similar to that of poor, predominantly African-American areas of cities such as New York. Violence, especially drug (usually cocaine and gun) related violence, is rife, and the publicity that this violence receives perpetrates the ridiculous and racist stereotypeOriginally a stereotype was an impression taken from a form of movable lead type and used for printing instead of the original type. This was generalized into a metaphor for repeating a set of ideas identically with no changes (as would have been possible of the Afro-Caribbean Briton: a gorillaGorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The Gorilla the largest of the primates, is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits the forests of central Africa. Gorillas move about by knuckle-walking. Males range in height from 1. 75 m, and in weight from 140 kg to-like drug addict with dreadlocksDreadlocks are long thin mats of hair that has been allowed to grow out over time. Sometimes if normal hair is left for a long period of time, dreadlocks happen by themselves; sometimes people start them off artificially by dividing their hair up into sec and a gun.
The typical yardie is a single male from about 16 to 35 years of age. The typical yardie is often unemployedIn economics, a person who is able and willing to work yet is unable to find a paying job is considered unemployed . The unemployment rate measures the number of unemployed workers as a proportion of the total civilian labor force, where the latter includ, though many claim to be involved in the music industryThe music industry is the industry that creates and performs music, both in the form of compositions and performances. The music industry is made up of: singers songwriters musicians Musicians' Unions composers publishers Writers' rights organizations lik, as a cover.
The yardie problem in the UK is not being helped by a tense relationship between the policeFor the band, see The Police. For the Polish town, see Police, Poland. Police forces are government organisations ostensibly charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order. The word comes from the French, and less directly from the Greek pol and immigrant groups.