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Urla is derogatory Latvian slang term, referring to all men and women aged 17 to 30 who are believed to be criminals or possess aggressive habits. The name urla itself has come from the Russian word орлы. In the beginning of 90's crimminals used to call themselves орлы, which lead to the creation of the word "urla". Basically it is just an overheard, madeover version of the word орлы which means eagles.

The term is mainly used by Latvian chauvinistic teenagers. The majority of these teenagers belong to a working class, enjoy street-racing (preferable automobiles are old models of BMW, Audi, VW Golf, sometimes SAAB or Volvo) and drinking beer (in a way this makes them similar to urlas). Some experts believe that the use of this term depicts the social tension in Latvian society, which results in lack of tolerance towards other nations (primarily Russians) and people possessing a lower social status. Note that Latvian teenagers mostly use this term towards national minorities in Latvia (the largest minority group consists of Russians), who have a low yearly income and living standarts. This fact is largely disputed, because Russians make up about 38% of Latvias 2.3 million population and about 800,000 of them were not granted citizenship after the restoration of independence of Latvia in the 1990's even though many of them were born in Latvia during the Soviet occupation and even voted for the restoration of Latvias independence in the referendum in 1991. This factor is sometimes seen as the reason of why the living standarts ar so low in some minority groups in Latvia. The meaning of the word urla is similar to the British slang word chav.

urlas in their meeting spot.

Typical urla fashion items include sport shoes or vinyl shoes, athletic wear, and leather jackets.^{[citation needed]} A shaved head is believed to be essential for urlas.^{[citation needed]} Also very common attributes are old BMW and other ~15-20 years old automobiles which usually becomes spots for gathering together. Urla's musical taste can be described as a passion for anonymous electronic dance music with very monotonous rhythm, but popular MTV stars are quite popular among them too. Most popular alcohol in this community is cheap beer in 1.0l or 2.0l plastic bottles with high [9%] ethanol percentage or cheapest beer from 0,5 glass bottle packages.

In the Latvian version of the video game The Crims, instead of local bastards there are vietējās urlas (local urlas).^[

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