Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The different Styles in Chilean Teens

Nowadays teens in Chile are constructing their personalities through technology, the media and physical appearance to attract the attention of their parents and the rest of the world.
First of all, what happens with the adolescents of our society and their different styles I think the major problem today is at Chilean teens live practically alone due that parents who, have to leave thier homes to go to their jobs and sometimes teens don´t understand why they are living alone all time. For this reason they search for love in things like, movies, cartoons, games and other friends.
I became interested in this topic because, in our society, everyday new styles of clothes, accessories, new hairstyles and tattoos show up and other things. I think that the different styles are sometimes good but in some case they are very special and too extreme. For example, here there are some of the styles adopted in Chile emos, darketos, boys, visual, pokemos, grungucheros, rastas, jipitecas, pandrosos, cholos, Bullyings, comiqueros, gays, punks, flaytes, skin heads, hackers, rude, goticos, and more and more. Surely some styles could be bad or good for the adolescents.
The issue is that some of these styles affect the relationships with their families, friends and other people. Sometimes some young children have bad behavior in school because they think that nobody understands their styles and life, but they don´t look around them and they don´ t think about why people have a bad opinion about their styles. In some cases, like the emos, the groups are very nice and calm and they believe in the love of all that is good. But on other side are the skin heads and they are bad groups of adolescents because they cause damage to innocent people.
The most important aspect of my essay is that people pay attention to why teens are rebels and why they choose, create, and adopt different styles without thinking of the consequence. Who is responsables? The easy access to the techonology, parents, friends, schools.

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