when i was in the first few years at senior school, we looked up to the 6th
formers who all dressed out of uniform and all had their own style. by the
time i got to the 6th form, i was the ONLY person who had any sort of
sub-cultural 'allegiances' at all. the rest of them were 'wiggers',
listening to gangsta rap and drum'n'bass in the Common Room, wearing baggy
trousers and baseball-caps, even though this was the ISLE OF WIGHT! everyone
liked exactly the same things, well, except all the stuff I wore and
listened to, they seemed to have no imagination in chosing a sub-culture,
and were fascinated by the whole idea that i wasn't satisfied by High Street
fashions and the chart singles available in WOOLWORTHS!
however, one slightly interesting NEW youth sub-culture seems to be the
(wait for it...) yachty kids. this sub-culture seems to exist along the
coasts of Britain. the kids all wear yachty clothes (NOT surfy)and hang out
in sailing clubs and go sailing all the time. they don't have any particular
bands to be into, except perhaps the ones who look like fellow yachties.
they aren't all rich-kids either. this sounds extremely tame, and i wonder
if it has anything to do with the health, exercise and fitness obsessions in
the 80's? in fact, my brother has become one of these yachty-kids, and 'y-k'
is my name for them as they haven't got their own name as they don't yet
realise they are a sub-culture!
bizarre!
>From: David Steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Office stuff
>Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:15:49 -0800
>
>I cant complain too much about reaction in my office - I work with a good
>crowd, but I do feel an underlying feeling that some of the middle-aged
>women think I'm a freak - little things that the fact I take a coat-hanger
>to work to hang my jacket up instead of flinging it over my chair fascinate
>them :-)
>
>The two younger lads in my office are both great, one is into Weller in a
>fairly decent way (all solo stuff, couple TSC and Jam albums) so he gets
>where I'm at, and the other was a Goth in his mid-teens (he is 26 now) so
>he understands the whoole subculture thing too.
>
>But back to the more genral topic of apathy towards subcults, I kind of get
>the feeling that most kids/teens are much more lazy now - even when I was
>at school, my mates were always trying to find things for themselves, be it
>Nirvana, the Wonderstuff, Rage Against The Machine, or me buying Punk and
>60's Pop....we were all different and have grown into different people, but
>this doesnt seem to be the case nowadays. Shame really.
>
>David.
>
>
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