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How are young people from other English speaking countries expressing their social identity?

UNITED STATES

In the United States, tribes and cultures are more suburban, but there are some that stand out for their popularity in countries around the world, some of them are rappers, the hip hoppers and metal heads.

The Rappers

The rap is a mixture of music with the rhythmic spoken delivery of the rhymes, puns and poetry. Its lyrics began to be used as social protest, criticism Which Suffered Because of the content of violence in his lyrics. Some letters speak of attacking the forces of law but the rappers have to each other battles In which the goal is to defeat your opponent with his lyrics. The rap one of the four pillars of hip hop culture, hence they are also often call him metonymically (and inaccurately) hip hop. Although it can be Interpreted a capella, rap is usually Accompanied by a rhythmic background music known as la versión voice beat. The wardrobe of the young rappers of the United States is very different from other cultures.
The influenced by basketball, baseball and the costumes of the prisoners in the USA:


• Slacks.
• T-shirts a size or two larger.
• Slippers.
• Scarves and Caps.
• Strings.

The Hip hoppers

The hip-hop is an art movement that emerged in America in the late 1960's in the African American and Latin American neighborhoods as New Yorkers Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, where from the beginning stood out the origins characteristic manifestations of hip hop. Since the end of the decade of the 1970's in the United States and worldwide in the 1990's, coming to soar in the early 2000's. The costumes that hip hoppers have been used since its inception, Which is distinguished from others:

• Slacks.
• T-shirts two sizes too large.
• Slippers wide.
• Scarves or hats.
• Jewels valuable.

Or heavy metal heads

Is a listener and prefers heavy metal music genre, is between 15 and 30 years, mainly politically indifferent and have little respect for organized religion and the institutions, offending many times Christ and the church. There are several types of metal heads and everyone listens to one type of metal music as:
Trash metal: Politics and society, some speak of Satanism.

Power metal, mythology, warriors and fantasy.

Death metal: Lyrics too violent, speaks of sacrifice and murder.

Black metal, Satanism and anti-Christianity.

The wardrobe of a metal head is quite different from a rock, it has the following elements:


• Leather Boots
• Military Pants
• Long hair and loose
• Iron Maiden T-Shirts
• Rivet Belt
• Nails painted black

Young American express much of their subculture with its costumes, music, religion and language, as each tribe or culture is different from the others.

ENGLAND

In the UK many suburban cultures or tribes, have spread worldwide, some of which are more familiar than others, namely the Skinheads, the Punk and Gothic.

The Skinheads

The skinheads appear in England in the 60's, as descendants of the mod movement that emerged in the UK in 1958. The mods were young middle class who liked the fancy clothes, the scooters, street fighting, soul and rhythm & blues.
Also by that time in Jamaica, youth gangs were called rude-boys with tastes similar to those of the mods. These rude-boys listened to reggae, rock steady. From 1962 to the independence of the island, many Jamaicans migrated to England and brought his music and his rude-boy aesthetic with them. The locker room is crazy skinheads and modern:


• Young people with shaved heads.
• Heavy boots.
• Pants tube.

The Punkers

Arises in the late 70's mainly in the UK, its main base is based on anarchy, understood as not accepting the rules, question everything. In this group we find people of all ages, not related to society, themselves generate their own jobs. Her hair shaped crest symbolizes power, the higher crest, the greater the range within this urban tribe. The costume is a very rare punker:


• Hair: peaks of red, blue, green ...
• Shirts are black or dark colors.
• Black leather pants.
• Jeans tube and ankle.
• Banana boots, laces untied, dirty.
• Women. Plaid skirts, black leather pants or tube.

The Gothic

Is a suburban movement existing in several countries. It started in the UK between late 1970 and mid 1980 in the gothic rock scene, a derivation of the Post-Punk. His aesthetic and cultural biases are mainly from the influences of horror literature, horror films, and to a lesser extent.

The goth subculture shared aesthetic tastes, musical and cultural common ground. Although Gothic music encompasses several sub-genres and styles, all of these share a tendency to look and sound "dark" or "dark." Styles of dress within the subculture took inspiration from death rock, punk, androgynous style, and even the clothing styles of the Renaissance. The costume is a dark Gothic:

• Black clothing.
• Brown, purple and white.
• Applications of metal.
• Lace.
• Velvet.
• Boots high.
• White makeup to highlight dark circles.

In England and throughout the world exists in a country different tribes or cultures that help suburban youth to express their costumes, music, among other things.