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Ethnicity and Youth Subcultures - Coggle Diagram
Ethnicity and Youth Subcultures
Modern Primative
Body modification, tattoos and piecing's as self expression linked to a less complicated way of life
Symbolism is drawn from non western ethnic groups
Neo tribe, very wide but loose membership of individuality and self expression
Hybrid subculture mixing the modern with the primitive and taking inspiration from many cultures
US and in parts of Western Europe
Val and Juno
Body modifications due to a sense of powerlessness due to living in a fast changing world
Wanted to re-gain sense of power and control
White Wannabeas, Nayak
Called wangstas and wiggers
Young working class males who adopted the style and language of black culture
Listen to music such as hip hop or gangster rap, war lots of bling and dressed in a similar style to that stereotypically associated with young black males
Brasian
Johal
Hyper ethnic style as exaggeration of parent style
Provided empowerment through difference
Religious identity which was increasingly important
Positive selection of cultural preference
Originated in Britain, not only for youth but many experiment this culture when they are younger
Refused to accept subordinate place in society and wish to celebrate their culture by making it more contemporary and fashionable way
Fusion of British and Asian culture through cultural code switching
Regge and Rastafarians
Sense of community and sense of belonging through positive identity
Smoking Weed as seen as part of religion as helps them reach a high level of spirituality
Dreadlocks and wore red, gold and green as colour of Ethiopian flag
Originated from jamaica, carribean and ethiopia therefore listen to reggae music
Hedbidge
Form of resistance against white culture and racism
Roots in slavery
Political and spiritual movement
Offer a positive identity and source of opposition to racism and subordination experiencing
Attracted many Caribbean migrant to Britain
Less exclusive to Youth
Created as a resistance to the racism they faced by whites as that way the dressed displayed a black identity
Cultural appropriation and exchange
Hutky
Power differentials at work, western sub cultures may strip the meaning from symbols and use them in a superficial way
‘cultural exchange ‘ suggest a two way equal process which is often not true in reality
aspects of cultures have been taken in use by British sub cultures without any ‘’exchange’ taking place
Some people argue culture is shared and has a shared identity so cannot steal another culture when no body owns it
On the other hand, people say tattoos, henna tattoos, bhindis, dreadlocks an even some traditional music which be criticised as forms of exploitation and disrespect
Misrepresented by groups
Evaluation
Sociologists ignored issues of ethnicity
Male stream, not considering females
‘ethnocentricism’ as only considered things from your own ethnic perspective, and don’t consider other cultures/ ethnicities