Urban Tribes

Urban tribes are gangs or groups of mainly young people who join for fashions, interests, philosophies common places. Usually, each of these 'tribes' have their music and clothes that characterizes them. Each defends his ideals, objectives and territory.

The common element in these tribes is usually rebellion and social marginalization. The members of these gangs maintain a rebellious attitude (violent or not) to society, which they describe as hypocritical and meaningless. They realize activities that are at the limit of the moral and social rules: games, drinking, scandal, etc. They want to be together because they're similar. 

There are a lot of urban tribes, and I'm going to show you any of them:

1. Skaters: The Skater is associated with street culture, and under the name of the sport there is a larger culture.
2. Heavy-Metal: The metalheads are usually associated with other subcultures that share some tastes, as the Rockers (music) Hippies (peace and liberty), Gothic (dark), and Punks (rebellion).
3. Gothic: They try to express them in a society where they aren't included because black is the color of mourning and death. They wear crucifixes, rings and pendants regarding bats, skulls and spiders.
4. Hippies: The hippies formed a type of youth fashion and then be out of fashion proclaiming peace and love.
5. Rastafarians: Rastafarians protest against poverty, oppression and inequality ..... they are not only religious ideas but they are a lifestyle.
6. Floggers: Teen fashion that consists to post pictures and comments on a website.
7. Skinheads-Neo-Nazis: This urban tribe is composed of young people who adopted the custom of shave her head, wear boots and chains on their quasi-military outfits, supporting racism and xenophobia to express an irrational hatred of any ethnic minority.
8. Frikis-Gamers: They are persons with a behavior out of the habitual, strange, bizarre or quirky obsessed in a particular topic or hobby which is considered fanatical. A gamer is the term used in the Spanish language to define more specifically the type of video game player.
9. Preppies: They are young people very interested in aesthetics and in his image, brand clothes, cars, etc.. They usually have a lot of money, thanks to his parents in most cases.
10. Canis-Chonis: They are apolitical young, usually associated with delinquency and violence towards other strata of society.

                                            QUESTIONS

• Do you belong to any urban tribe?

• If someone belong to any of them, explain your reasons and defend it. What makes it better than any other?

• If you do not belong to any urban tribe, how you associate more or which do you think is most similar to you in the form of being, thinking, or which would you be?

• What urban tribe is worst for you and why? Which of them do you think that are related to vandalism and violence? 

• In our school, which is the urban tribe that you see the most?

Thanks for your attention, see you tomorrow in class!!