What is Hot with the Young Generation?

interests, the same style and they like the same music.

a deep understanding of how their computers work, and can

do things with them that seem ‘medical’. They do not protest against their parents.

a cowboy hat just to show off. He is associated

with something rebellious.

express his or her identity. He or she has brightly

coloured hair and wears metal chains. The person is thought to rebel against the society. The music is aggressive. They reject everything.

music, and drugs to create massive all-night dance parties in

empty warehouses. They like to be in a collective. They want to try out all sort of options and are thought to be violent.

a lot of silver jewellery and have very black hair

and look as this and pale as possible. The members gather together to read Bram Stoker and talk about being vampires, and about the end of the world.

person has college-style hair, a neat white shirt, a short

jacket, or a short blazer jacket, and narrow trousers. The clothes are Italian by choice. Pale face, plenty of make-up. Scooters are the preferred means of transportation. He or she prefer soul music.

popular music of the 1970s and 1980s. The lyrics often

refer to Rastafarianism.

Reggae

There free-form improvisations and light show appeared about 1966.

to be aggressive. It was a rejection of everything that

had gone before. It was designed to shock.

Techno

This music is made on computers and performed mainly by deejays of old-fashioned bands.

a few years, it had become America’s newest and most

popular kind of music. In the mid- 1950s it became the central part of teenage rebellion in the West.

more vandalism exists than it did ten years ago. Many

people say that their lives have been made miserable by young people out on the street late at night. Young people are more violent than ever. All those groups or subcultures are awful, because all of their members are violent.

the symptom of problems in the society. Some social and

economic problems may give rise to youth violence. Teenagers don’t live in a desert. Home, school, and neighbourhoods are part of the individual environment.
Crime for teens is an expression of their inability to join in society.
Teens don’t think much about their future life. They want to live now.

that bad as they are thought to be. Teens want

to show off.
Subcultures are for teens. Then teenagers become good citizens.
A subculture is a way of life. It is not a fan club; it is a real life for us.

style distinct from others.
To show off.
To identity with a particular

subculture.
To know who they are.
To support a …attitude and lifestyle.
To be designed to shock.
To have their/my own values and beliefs.

sort of options.
To protest against the parents.
To rebel against the

society/the older generation.
To show rebellion against the regime/society.
To reject everything.
To conform to society’s standards.
To be in a collective.
To differ from social norms.

as they are thought to be. And I don’t think

opinion is very good. For example, hippies their behaviour seems strange, their image is quite right, their values and beliefs are all wrong. They usually take drugs. And I think the unpleasant side of drugs is degradations. All of them destroy people. They’ve got that death tag on them.

is punks?
Who is ravers?
Who is goths?
Who is mods?
What do you

know about music styles?