Youth culture

Read the information about youth culture and make an outline. 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.  Today the life of many young people in Ukraine as well as in other countries of the world is influenced by popular culture. The young people follow certain stereotypes that are imposed on them through TV, movies, and music. In their lifestyle they try to imitate the images of their idols. Others  are sports and music fans. They follow their idols in their tours and support them. Unfortunately they are intolerant to those who don't share their view. It's a specific aspect of the youth subculture that can't be ignored. I think that subculture is the culture of those who are dissatisfied with their place in society. Different subcultures have their own beliefs, value systems, fashion, and favourite music. For example the subculture of Rastafairians was based on nostalgia for a lost world. They idealized Africa. Rastafairians were Afro-Caribbean immigrants in Britain. They began to wear distinctive clothes, camouflage jackets, large hats in the red, gold and green colours of Ethiopia and put their long, uncut hair in dreadlocks. They brought to us such types of music as ska, reggae and hip-hop. Many subcultures developed as a result of music fusion of black and white cultures. There are other subcultures that are not connected with music, and have a specific ideology. For example skinheads, which wore heavy boots, jeans and braces and shave their hair or cut it very short. Skinheads dreamed about the revival of the traditional working class culture. Skinheads were identified with extreme right wing views. Among other subcultures are Hippies, Punks, Mods, Rockers, Ravers and many others. Generally they were young people with low self-respect, who did poorly at school. They opposed the traditional world in which they were settled as fiasco elements. Subcultures are not that bad as they are thought to be. Teens want to show off. But at the same time a lot of teens think about changing the world to the best. Subcultures are  mostly for young and creative. Then, I am sure, teenagers become good citizens. Some who were punks became the main editors of famous newspapers. A subculture is a way of life. It is not a fan club, it is an attributive feature of a real life.