Urban Tribes

The urban tribes are mainly gangs or groups of young people (teenagers) who share fashions, interests, philosophies and common places. Generally, each one of these are called “tribes”, and they have their music and clothing that characterize them. Each one of them defends their ideals and objectives, and often they discriminate the other urban tribes because of their different thoughts.

The common thing between the different urban tribes is the rebelliousness and the social marginalization. They don’t like laws, the traditional things and people who force them to do “the right things”. And the other common thing is that all of them want to feel that they are not alone, and there are people like them; people with the same thoughts or likes.

The majority of the tribes share the same thought, and others share the same hobby (like skating or parkouring). And just a few share only music taste or fashion taste.

But now, the urban tribes are also a fashion. Now a lot of teenagers are only in an urban tribe to “follow fashion”. These are the most important urban tribes:


Emo. the original emo culture was born in the 80s like a music style and the word “emo” comes of “Emotional hardcore music”. Now the emo music is more commercial. Actuality, the majority of the emos are between 14 and 20, and they take care of themselves a lot. They are known becouse they have a pessimist and nonconformist mind, but there are a lot of people that are emo only because be emo is fashionable.

Gothic. the original gothic culture emerges in the United Kingdom in the 80s from the punk groups. The gothics are known because of their like for in everything related to death. They like vampires, angels, religious elements… It ss difficult to define the gothic culture, but is less commercial than the other cultures. They like the diversity, tolerance, creativity, art, intelligence…



Heavy. The heavy people share (more than the other tribes) the music and their political ideas. The heavy culture began in the beginning of the 70s and is totally against the hippy culture. The complete name is Heavy metal, from the sound of their music groups. This is the most international tribe. It is one of the urban tribes that have a lot of tradition in the Spain stage. And the majority of the lyrics songs have a meaning.



Hippie. The hippie culture is based in the liberty, the happiness and the peace. This culture was born in the 60s, to fight for the peace in Vietnam. They avoid violence and proclaim peace in the world and love, they think that everybody are equal. They don’t like politics and they have anarchic ideas. They want to live the life intensely. Actually this urban tribe is nearly finished, but their ideas are in the nowadays society.



Posh. The posh culture provably has existed since the beginning of the time. But its name has been changing: chief of the clan, feudal gentlemen and aristocrats. Now is different, but before the posh were the richest and most powerful people. Now, to be posh is fashion. The young “snobs” take care of themselves a lot, they dress very well, only with good trades of clothes. Usually, they don’t share music or likes; they share a life style and fashion. They like the internet applications too, like messenger, fotolog, facebook, myspace...



Credits

-My own words
-http://soloporgracia.galeon.com/aficiones1474818.html
-http://www.telefonica.net/web2/elcodigo/tribus/

Urban Tribes - Ainhoa