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YOUTH CULTURE
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Young people often want to reject conventional style of life, to differ from others. The idea not to be one of the crowd but the odd one out, sometimes even the leader of the pack, is quite attracting. The problem is how to realize the idea. The simplest way is to do something that shocks the people around you. That's how youth cults such as hippies, punks, rollers, rappers, etc. appear.
Some young people become members of youth cults just because they have nothing more to show off but their crazy looks. This way they manage to have attention of the others attracted. Others have rich and influential parents who are too strict to them or don't spend enough time with their kids. So they want to do something parents won't like. Some children consider participation in youth cults just a form of entertainment.
Members of youth cults have different values and behave in their own special way. Ravers will never listen to rock music - it isn't their style. Rollers won't buy bikes, and punks have tattoos made on their bodies and reject conventional dresses.
In general youth cults have a tendency of disappearing after a definite period of life. Only those, which develop, remain. English punks are among them.
One feature of early punks of 1970's was that they never had their hair cut and styled by anybody. They cut their own hair and styled it themselves. Their clothes were also 'D.I.Y', that is they spent hours tearing their jeans and jackets and creating the punk look. They were fans of loud, fast and tuneless music.
By 1977 punk music was at the top of hit parade, and the punk 'look' was high fashion. You could have your hair done in punk styles in hairdressers' all over Britain.
By the end of seventies Great British Punk instead of disappearing became a tourist attraction. If one wants to see punks he should come to London and have his photo taken with friendly boys and girls in torn leather and fantastic coloured haircuts far more exaggerated than anything existing in the early punk era.
I think that if members of youth cults really get what they want and do not make harm to others, they might continue being themselves. But I'm not sure, that such people become truly different from the others. They remain 'one of the crowd', but of another crowd (o rappers, bikers, etc.). If one really wants to become a man of distinction, he should do much more, than just look 'cool'. |
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