I've always associated boss man with casual racism mainly because I grew up with family members calling anyone foreign who works in a takeaway boss man and I knew those family members were racist. Never seen them call a white guy boss man.
So many people in Dalston call all shop owners boss man and that's across race but yeah the optics are BAD when you say it like that.
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I've always associated boss man with casual racism mainly because I grew up with family members calling anyone foreign who works in a takeaway boss man and I knew those family members were racist. Never seen them call a white guy boss man.