UrBaN TrIbEs

Have you ever gone downtown or to the mall during an afternoon? Probably the answer be yes, but what do you see? Yes, I knew it! A lot of groups of young people with many differents names that only they know, and the most scientific explanation is that they are Urban tribes. We can hear about it on TV or in a brother/sister conversationor even in the bus. But What do they have to do to belong to this groups? We have at some possible answers and I am suyou would like to know more about that.

Changes affect everybody, but obody realizes that is what happened with this new generation of teenagers. They are changing their physical appearances, doing some incredible things to be accepted in a group like mutilating -piercings, tatoos- some parts of their bodies, but is this sane? Some psychologists have said it's just part of their lives and some day it must be overcome by themselves.

In fact, body mutilation is not the only change that teenagers make , for example they also change their clothes, looking, in some cases, very ridiculous or funny. In some urban tribes the main objective is looking like a woman in a man's case and man in a woman 's case, being interpretated by society like homosexual movements when in some cases that has nothing to do with it.

Moreover, one of the main characteristcs of urban tribes is the music that they listen to. The other day when I was watching TV, I saw how friendships were rejected because of the music they listened to.

That was really freaky for mebut is something that is happening in our society. I know that this kind of tendency or fasion in a few years will disappear. we are asking to ourselves what is happening with our children when we did the same when we were teenagers. As I said before tendancies change with the time, affecting everyone, even us.