Youth subculture

 

It’s difficult to identify youth culture today. The cultural progress is too fast and constantly appears new subcultures. They varied from “Teddy boys” rock groups, “Rockers” from 60^th to the “ Skin heads”, “Punks” and modern “Hip-hop” and “Rave styles”.

Street culture has no fixed address and you can’t use map to find it. But I should say that the main routs of modern cultures go from Africa to America and then to other countries and continents.

 One of the most wide-spread culture among young people today is hop-hop. It isn’t only a music, it’s style of life which conclude: the music Rap and hip-hop, the dances brake and hip-hop, graffiti, such sports as streetball, snowboarding, this guys have special style of clothes and special slang.

The most noticeable for ordinary people part of hip-hop culture is graffiti – special paintings on the walls. At first city dwellers was against graffiti, they thought that it was eyesore and graffiti was illegal and punishable. But when hip-hop culture was spread it brought graffiti with it.

The other very interesting subculture is Hippy. This people opposed to the traditional styles of society and wears unusual clothes and usually have very long hair. The motto of hippy is: «Do everything you like”. And they follow it.

 The third famous subculture is Punk-Rock. On the street you can always recognize Punk-rockers by their colored haircuts and lots of piercing.

Through the years piercing became popular among ordinary people. Nowadays you can see people who have got rings – hanging from ears and pushed through noses, lips and eye brows everywhere.