Youthful Rampage

I am currently living out my youthful days within today’s society… but what does it mean by being a youth? What youth sub-culture do I belong to? When will I stop belonging and being a youth? Why does it have to end?

I can honestly tell you that I am enjoying being my self at the moment,

I don’t want to have to change, just to be accepted into current mainstream society later on in life, (not to think that I would actually have to change much). How do I know that it is going to be the right thing for me, is there a need for change? Don’t we youths have the right to rampage the way we want to, how does it affect you?

Being a youth in today’s society I witness first hand and even at times experience the different youth sub-cultures that exist. Youth cultures are apart of young people’s lives, it has to do with fashion, style, image, dance, music. Young people are associating themselves with people with ccommon interests who either come from similar social classes, gender, ethnicity or anyone or the other. Young people establish a subculture between them selves and have an understanding, they communicate with similar dialects and slang, listen to similar music genres and have there own gathering places to socialize in. Youth sub-cultures associate there actions with symbolism that is interpreted in some way by dominant culture. It is found in their music, clothing, life style and other visible affections. It can be perceived as youths being rebellious against dominate culture in society. Although to most youths it provides a sanctuary for them to express/be themselves and release from the affluence of there family, home, school and work.

Evidence of Youth sub-cultures can date back into history and “has changed dramatically over the last 20 or 30 years.”(Click to read up on Information about the youth culture in different periods)

I don’t understand the continuous criticism youths receive from the “dominate matured culture” of society. When all youth are doing is expressing who they are, their feelings and emotions. An Article published by David Kupelian, “Why today’s youth culture has gone insane” can be found at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36599dnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36599. This article gives us a Bias view on youth sub-cultures in society. It presents a perception of opinions that certain people in western society hold about today’s young people and there open culture. It looks at the minorities of groups that exist. The reality is that the groups of people mentioned in the article would be looked down upon by majority youths. Today’s society youths are confronted with more of everything, then what youths 30 years ago would have been faced with. There are more choices to choose from, more commitments, pressures, and opportunities. Growing up into the world, young people are looking for ways to express themselves, take up different opportunities by being adventurous in order to be accepted by there peers. This notion of expressing emotions in various forms is understood between young people and within various groups.

- One thing to make note of is that body piercing and body tattooing was done by other cultures and societies before its uses by the youths of western society. These cultures did these practices for various reasons, but these reason in some cases are not much different to why youths apply it . To look at it at most base level, it is a form of personal expression within a group of people .

(Personally the only way I abuse my body is by drinking excessively and playing rugby union every weekend not at the same time though ;-) - this can be seen as me belonging to sub-culture.)

The internet has allowed for young people to communicate and form social groups with people globally (Building Virtual Communities). People who live in isolated areas can now communicate with people who have similar interests and share ideas with people from all parts of the world.

The following has been a briefing on youth sub-cultures; I could have gone into a lot more detail on the different dominant groups and there practices as groups, which are in society and the power of the media. This would have taken a while. The thing that needs to be understood is that no matter the group, their are good and bad things to everything.

The young people in society are only experimenting with life and are usually bright thinkers when given the chance. In most cases these young people are just growing into better people. We should always remember that and no matter how old we get in life we should never turn our backs to the youths in society; they are the people of tomorrow. Do you have any youthfulness in you? I think we all need to go on a youthful rampage once in a while no matter how old we are it helps us stay in touch with reality of what life really is! (Not so serious, Less clutter and stresses that we can get caught into with our everyday lives )