Phobias

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Originally Posted by BlooCheese

Hey! I never said that! Don't assume things that aren't true!

As I've clearly stated before, to me, dying your hair funky colors is...wierd. I do not care about wearing things that are "in fashion" and I do not care about being popular and trying to fit in. However, I do not support gangster-ism, gothic-ism, mohawks, and those types of things. I do not want to do what everbody else does, but I want to be decent and normal.

This is how I think it works. I could be wrong, but as far as I know, this is how it goes.
Goth = people who dress in black and who have no hope for the world.
Conformists = people who do what society tells them to do, whether or not there's rhyme or reason, or people who do what everybody else does just to "fit in"
People with Mohawks = I don't know. They're neither here nor there.

YESTERDAY

The Goths were an East Germanic tribe who according to their own traditions left Scandinavia, settled close to the Vistula mouth (in present day Poland), and from the 2nd century settled Scythia, Dacia and Pannonia. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, they harried the Byzantine Empire and later adopted Arianism. In the 5th and 6th centuries, dividing into the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful follower-states of the Roman Empire in Iberia and Italy.

TODAY

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture prevalent in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the late 1970s to early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era. Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from nineteenth century Gothic literature, mainly through horror movies.

The goth subculture has associated gothic tastes in music and fashion. Gothic music encompasses a number of different styles. Common to all is a tendency towards a ?dark? sound and outlook. Styles of dress within the subculture range from death rock, punk, androgynous, some Renaissance style clothes, or combinations of the above, most often with black attire, makeup and hair.