When I was in highschool, we had preps, cowboys, skaters, goths, and freaks.  What are you kids labeling each other these days and describe it for me?
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emo kids are basically goths....except not as devil worshiping...aka fags
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GIRL\ndont listen to nobody about wat you like and wat they like!\nif thats yo style ROCK IT!\npeople get at me for acting like i do but they dont break my stroll.\ntells those MISCHA BARTON GIRLS (thats wat i call them at my school) that they are haters and dress big time goth just to piss them off.\nDAMN, you girls are sooo self consious \nguys dont care\nthats why we're cooler than yall\nlol
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i also am like that, my best friend in junior high was a pretty preppy skater guy, and i always were considered hip hop.
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I understand where you're coming from, my mom is basically clueless to the teen styles/social classes. EMO is short for emotional. at an age of changing hormones and fighting to fit in, if ppl don't find a place in the social chain where they can fit in, then they often start to block out alot of the world around them and try to seek shelter inside their mind hoping somehow they'll find a friend. EMO kids usually wear kind of a mix of rocker/punk/goth clothing but not full strand to either one. like a typical emo kid would prolly have a black shirt sporting a heavy metal band or just skulls flames and stuff like that, dark colored jeans usually tight, wristbands to their elbows, spikey dyed hair, and other dark colored accessories. hope after you get through decoding all of my ramblings that this helps.
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142017
Ugh I hate it. So many kids at my school are acting like that. It's just a fad (or a way for gays to express themselves in a "cool" way)
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I was totally irritated by the fact that there were more teens in casual clothing with supermarket bags trick or treating than little kids in costumes. Maybe this is why there were less houses offering treats than in years past, my kids had to stay out a little longer and wlk a little further and still weren't able to fill their bags.
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I would say you're a cross between a preppie and a goody-goody.\n\nMe?  I'm the outcast of the outcasts.
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most people dont really use that lable anymore that are "goth" and most that do are in their teens\n\ni think for a lot of them it has to do with teen angst and depression\nthey dress they way they do because they feel like theyve been rejected from society so they want to reject themselves even further from the people who they feel dont understand them\n\nhowever, the 18+ "goths" i think its more about the artisic expression - the really white vampire-like skin and the dark clothing and makeup and hair .. there are also different styles of gothic people.. some have the more victorian style, where the makeup isnt as extreem but its very antiquy.\nthen there are the vampire type goths that just sort of want to become vampires or roll play as them, and thats where the really white skin and the wierd contact lenses and stuff and fake blood and blood play with knives and stuff come in\nthen there are the more industrial type fetishy club goths.. its really about the look with them, those are the ones that look like the arrived on a gothic spaceship with the goggles on their heads and the big snynthetic dredlocks and the vinyl and synthetic clothing and the huge boots\n\nthen there are those that wear vinyl and are into fetish that you might consider goth, but i dont really consider them gothic.\n\n\nit's also kindof based around the "goth" bands..\nkinda a lifestyle that goes with the music\n\nfor some laughs there is a really funny little book that is called "What Is Goth?" and its like a joke kindof laughing at and with the gothic culture.\n\n:D
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Punk = No care for rules. Anarchy\n\nGoth = Same as "Mod" in the 80's.\n\nTomboy = Girls who hate dresses and love to be rough-necks.\n\nEmo = Into "EMOtional" music. Dramatic songs.
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Not all preps hate goths. My best friend is prep and I am goth, but we get along fine.  Her friends hate me though.  They say I am 2 depressing and they hate my style of clothes.  I guess we r just 2 opposite peoples.
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Yes, in high school.  We were demonstrating and burning the dress code which hadn't been updated since 1947.   Boys were getting expelled when their hair went over the top of their ears. Things have sure changed.  Now the school are excited if the chicks boobs aren't hanging out and the boys pants are somewhere near the waistline.  And what is this with all the fat chicks and hip-hugger pants.  That is gross!
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Preppy (also spelled preppie) is a chiefly American adjective or noun traditionally used to describe the characteristics of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) who attend or attended major private, secondary university-preparatory schools. These characteristics include particular subcultural speech, vocabulary, accent, dress, mannerisms, etiquette, and life view. In 1980, Lisa Birnbach wrote the Official Preppy Handbook, a tongue-in-cheek guide to what she termed "prepdom." The term "preppy" is similar in formation to hippie or yuppie, and had great currency in the 1970s and 1980s. The term first reached a wide audience in the 1970 film Love Story, where Ali McGraw's character uses it as a derisive term of endearment.
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You have to realize that high school goth has nothing to do with real goth.  For them it's a fad and a fashion.  Real goths don't have a set way of looking.  But I have to agree with you that teen "goths" all look the same.
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1971-74. Time flies.\n\nThe "SP's" (Special Programs) were the "smart" kids....the debs became the preps.....the greasers became hoods......the hippies evolved into the yippies (you had to literally "Steal This Book" to be a member). I don't remember the rest. I was too busy getting high, cutting school, and hanging out with my VERY cool bass-player-in-a-rock-band boyfriend. Where have all the good times gone?\n\nNow I have a daughter who is a sophomore. She talks about the goths, the preps, the jocks, the dreaded cheerleaders (some things never change) and the emo's (now THERE is a strange bunch). The only thing that seems different from when I was in high school is that the guys now wear more eyeliner than some of the girls.
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Nowadays, I put them in my own class I call "poser rock." It's the kind of music little poser "punk" or "goth" kids listen to while crying about their petty little problems.
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Whatever teens are into nowadays.\n\nI used to be heavy into Star Trek, Star Wars, Anime, music, comic books, girls, and the Discovery and History Channel.