Young Urban Tribes

The theme of urban tribes at present has become a fact of social interest mainly because of the incident at the Abasto de Buenos Aires on March 5 this year, where an emerging tribe flogger would have been attacked by the so-called villeros. The conflict began with a territorial issue: the fight for dominance of the Abasto as a social gathering. As a result of this confrontation, there were dozens of injuries and destruction of young people shopping. The official version reveals the existence of two opposing tribes: Villeros vs. CHET. Two opposing social classes over the years into what is often referred to as a class struggle. Tribes are different levels of economic and social trends and tastes that opposites repel (perhaps by envy) and as was seen to come to physically attack, which is a frightening intolerance of different ways of thinking and being.

Within the so-called brackets can find subdivisions such as floggers and glams. The first were the ones who would have been attacked in what they termed as “fiesta flogger” in the Abasto. This festival consists of meetings between users fotolog in that shopping on Wednesday afternoon to meet and draw pictures that later would rise to their fotologs.

Other versions say the fight started between them floggers, whose motive was an issue of popularity between two antagonistic groups. So we can acknowledge the existence of an internal competition between members of the same tribe and the formation of subgroups. But what we want to emphasize this second version is the word popularity. The floggers argue that the fotolog allows teens to obtain popularity in a very simple and fun, which is to set up an account Fotolog.com and upload their photos to the Web so that others can see them and comment on them. This need to emphasize, this competition by drawing attention to see who is most famous in your environment, is just another proof of this search for the young people of an identity.

An anonymous user of the site Youtube.com whose nickname is “m1cest” rose to the page where a series of videos described in a detailed but aggressive and rude to some of these urban tribes, their physical characteristics, ideological and individual tastes. In these lists to the new urban tribes more relevant today than are the Villeros, Cheto (Originals, Glams and floggers) and Emo (emotional). Based on these descriptions coupled with our own information on these tribes as a youth with whom we are accustomed to living together, we’ll make an analysis, listing their similarities and differences. While it is true that there are many more that these urban tribes, like the subgroups of rock like Punkie, Rolling, heavy metals, Gothic or hippie fashions today, we will focus on the previously listed on his recent global popularity.

As mentioned above, the clash between the social classes of Villeros commonly called “black” and Cheto commonly referred to as “lining”, is one of the tribal rivalries between urban oldest we can find. The characteristics of the villeros are like the adjective says, who are from villages in low-income families with little education and without a solid family base. They are usually marginalized by his reputation as thieves and Patotero, generating resentment toward society. His greatest passions are football and the quartet in the case of Cordoba or the cumbia in Buenos Aires, music artists villeros for villeros.

On the other hand, the so-called brackets belong to a class economic-social medium or high, which would generate an unrecognized envy in the villeros and a disregard on the part of these brackets. A Cheto not everyone is not villera. It is assumed, although there are often misunderstandings, that the brackets are those who wear clothing brand, attended private schools and live in neighborhoods of good repute. They have access to a wider range of sports such as basketball, tennis or rugby and listen to pop music in general and / or electronic internationally. As previously appointed earlier this fall in the originals, which are the major characteristics mentioned in its entirety, and that would be defined as “poseurs”, which arise within the floggers and glams.

The persons named as Poseur (Poser) are those who use the aesthetic and / or behavior of an urban tribe, but ignoring completely the philosophy and ideology of the movement itself. These are commonly marginalized and despised by the tribes to try to resemble, as contempt of Punkie toward emo or the brackets to the floggers and glams, as these are nothing more than brackets in appearance.

The so-called glams are, as just mentioned, those not belonging to a high level so social simulate that, by this expression of the “glamor” that simulate the use of clothing to fashion crazy, crazy hairdos usually with flequillos and lenses sun. A distinctive feature of floggers and glams is the use of pants Chupina of bright colors such as red, green, yellow, orange, pink, and so on. All this combined with an attitude of superiority and lust permanent.

The floggers would glams those who upload their photos to Fotolog.com and relate to other floggers forming virtual communities and as we saw today: to meet in places like the Abasto in Buenos Aires and Cordoba in the Patio Olmos. This does not mean that every young person who possesses a fotolog or participating at the Patio Olmos is a flogger, the difference is that they are often termed as “addicted to fotolog” there comes the adjective “flogger”. Possess even a vocabulary and use of specific words as the term “meaning”. His favorite music is electronic, and highlights those that they knew would perform the dance steps more prominent. Their ages hover between 11 and 17 years in general (secondary students).

Finally, we will try on the so-called Emo. Emo comes from Emotional and the basic characteristic of this tribe is precisely the fact that people are leaving their emotions flow. The trend is often to show their suffering and the dark, those who take a position pesimismista of life and dramatize any event that is more minimal, even cutting themselves, self scourge. Their banner suicide although most did so only to draw attention as they tend to be people who feel ignored and marginalized, when they themselves are those who are marginalized. You could say that there are more Emos Poseurs that Emos real, as real as if they would have committed suicide does not it?

We are not relentlessness with this particular group, but not what creates these really are their philosophies of life: suicide, aesthetics, bisexuality and emotions, obviously negative, depressed. As to his aesthetic that’s what we did not even characterized this group, their hairstyles are similar to those of floggers but unlike those who use bright colors and try to draw the attention of an extroverted manner, the Emo dressed as a base The black and combine it with colors usually red, blue or pink. Floggers as well as widespread as gay on his meter female sexuality and aesthetics. Added to that are often delineated Emo eyes like the Gothic. Their musical preferences are electronics and industrial derivatives of rock, nu metal bands, so they are repudiated by Punkie and other asemejárseles to both. Emo could be defined as the mixing between the Cheto and the dark, maybe a dark version of the flogger. They try to draw the attention of an introverted manner.

Broadly speaking, they are are some of the old and new urban tribes more relevant today. Just visit the city center to meet these different groups of young people moving through the streets and gather at the Olmos or the Paseo del Buen Pastor, among others.
Whether to become popular, fun or just to share their tastes and ideas with their peers. We believe that the issue is being viewed from a negative view of the clashes occurred in various places in the world, where floggers and emo are often the main targets of violence. But if humans to delete every person that we are not sympathetic, that we do not like the way they dress or think, would not be any human in the world. We should “live and let live”, cite the typical phrase “the rights of a finish where the start of another.” Everyone has freedom of expression and right to dress and speak as you wish. What this world needs to learn is to accept others as they are. We must develop tolerance, and if you really can not stand it will have to look the other way, because violence is not the solution.

That the world would be boring if we all liked the same thing, if all vistiéramos and think alike. Maybe these are the urban tribes that gives color to our city. Maybe what are the dynamics that make and why not? Those that do to your identity.