I am not talking about EMOtional. I am talking about people. Isn't like close to goth but not quite there? It is pretty unique actually. Hmm....?
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Emotional Rock.\n"White middle-class kids whining" is the usual definition given.\n---\n Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle. \n---\nThat definition was from urbandictionary.com.  Link below.  There are over 700 definitions for emo there.  (They are rather subjective though...)
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Emo=emotinal, cut their wrist every freaking time they feel bad, hear Hawthorne Heights, MCR, ect, anything that is punk, heavy metal ect. wear really tight pants, black eyeliner, bangs are definitely emo, thick rimmed glases, hate their life, are bisexual, wear Vans of the wall, Converse all star, lotta stuff, but if you wanna hear it in a comedy, go see the emo song by andy and andrew :)
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Well, there is a very good historical answer above, but to me being goth is the embrace and beauty of the darker side of things, life and human emotion...make no mistake...it is not evil things. Embracing being sad as much as being happy, for it is also a human emotion. \n\nPeople of course will always take it too far.....to those I would remind them that life will suck if you pretend (or allow yourself) to be angry or sad all the time...plus other people won't really wanna be around you. \n\nI, as a younger me, was all out gothic....clothes, makeup, friends, music, etc...now I don't look like that, I will go to a bar even if it doesn't feel like a cave or dungeon, have hip hop and country friends, dress to suit my profession, listen to all types of music, but you know what...most people can still tell that I have gothy tendancies.\n\nAnd yah..I would marry the real life version of that character from Corpse Bride.
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Goths are the ones who think they are superior than "normals" of a society they cannot define, but throw the word around a lot. Wears black, boots, long coats, concert shirts of black metal bands or whatever. They wear all this crap over their face because they are "unique" but all look alike when you look at them in a whole. You can can tell one when they say "stop staring at me" or "I am unique and my own person" Yet they all wear black, white/dark make up and have all this crap in their face. Yeah no one is going to not stare at that and no you are not unique if you are labeled, groups of similarity are labeled, or else there would be no need to label! (That last part can go for each you asked of)\n\nEmos are the "new age" goths, but instead of black and all, they wear these "prep" clothes with a twist of "hardcore" They think everything is dramatic and out to make their lives crappy. When if they looked at themselves, they would see it is them that make their life miserable and not the ones around them. Emo(tional) they claim not all cut themselves, but when you look at majority, it is like goths they are labeled for a reason with their ways and actions. They area bunch of dramaqueens, and I say that for both boys and girls that partake in the 2004-present trend of todays dumb teens.\n\nPunk is against the "establishment" the almighty "Man" In other words they wold prefer anarchy so they can do whatever they want without consequences, they take no responsibility of their actions. Hippies in a way, but more on the extreme side, the anti-hippie, instead of peace and loving order, they prefer anarchy and do what they want without remorse. Bums really, mainly they are so stoned out their minds all they do is sit around complaining how the "Man" is keeping them down and trying to overthrow the "establishment" again what is this "establishment?"\n\nI could go on and on about these groups, and yes, some I have been with, and noticed they are all the same and well, they have labels for a reason and none of them are unique, if anything they are apart of their "society" "establishment" and crappy lives because it is all so dramatic and a harsh world. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THEY GET OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND EXPERIENCE THE REAL WORLD!!
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I totally agree. People are so mean and rude sometimes, emo music is great and the style is awesome. I dont know what's wrong with people.
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I'm friends with many people that  are considered goth and despite a few things (some sexual, some unusual depression) they act just like every other teenager does. None of them cut themselves, none of them worship satan, they're just into the look I guess.\n\nSure some goths might worship satan and cut themselves, but it's a person to person thing, perhaps group to group. I know personally, I dressed "punkish" through highschool and people always thought I was gonna rebel against everything in the school, but really, I was only dressing that way because that's what I thought I looked best in. Again, some of my friends that dressed like I did rebeled against everything and it's hard to get away from that, but they were still just normal kids that were into something different.\n\nI think you'd have to make the question a little more specific if you wanted an accurate answer as to how they behave because it's probably different in every area, although I do know some from here in Wisconsin and in Canada and they're exactly the same, perhaps it's a coincidence? Could be, or they're just also thinking they look best that way like I did.
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Evrything is individual, and we are all different persons, with different beliefs, personal values, emotions, and genetics. Don't expect people to be similar to each other. Accept differences.
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Gothic is just a label.  There are nice goths and mean ones, just like every other group.  Most of the ones I know are nice.\n\nYes, you can be gothic an believe in God.  I know a couple of Christian goths, including a very devout Catholic.
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Its short for emotional hun. Its not guys who dress up in girls clothes. It does refer to the type of clothes they wear though. I can't describe it exactly and the type of music they listen to. Its just another group, like goths , pikeys and chavs
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interesting...happy maybe not.  Could you mean kind or nice people..many times they just dont try to control as much
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goths doesn't worship Satan or study fashion and they doesn't wear slipknot shirts all the time ,what a bullshit.please tell me what of issues do you have with people just because they're dressing in a different way than you do ?the way you dress doesn't changes your opinions or your mind.why do you judge somebody without knowing him?i mean you would be angry at me if i would consider you as a meaningless little consumer without any opinions just because you dress like everybody else?\n\nby the way there a lot of goths or people in general who have the same opinions like punks.just because they don't look all the same don't change their minds\n\npeople are more than one specific thing\n\npeople are homosexual but their whole life isn't about being "gay"\nit's just their sexuality\n\nthere are some people who believe and some who doesn't but that doesn't mean there whole life is about that it's just their religion\n\nsome people like to dress all black but that doesn't change the person it's just the way they look.
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Some people say I'm not goth because I sometimes wear colorful clothing and don't listen to the Cure. I say screw them. Goth can be a fashion. OR, in my case, it can be an outlook on the world, much like pessimism. Oftentimes I think being gothic just means actually looking around and seeing the world for how f*cked up it is. In my opinion, if you think you're goth, you probably are, no matter how you dress.
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a hipth....goppie...my goth nephs and sister and daughters are true goth....they are like you...but we also love the marilyn manson disturbed,blkeyedpeas...we're there ok?u R a REAL cool person
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Goth is more a lifestyle or outlook on life than anything. They tend to accept that there are bad things as well as good things in life, rather than 'sweep them under the rug', to say, and pretend they don't exist. They can dress however they want, although many prefer darker colors and more dramatic clothes and makeup, and listen to lots of songs and varied genres of music, which can include but are by no means limited to, new wave, darkwave, ethereal, Celtic, goth rock, punk, postpunk, chants, heavy metal, industrial, Latin, et cetera. Not all are interested in vampires - in fact, relatively few are. Many if not most have good relationships with their parents. Very few have mental or psychological problems. Most are actually quite nice, if a bit saturnine. Very, very, very few are 'satanists' or 'devil worsippers'. Most of the young teenagers who listen to Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, Slipknot, Korn, My Chemical Romance, Drowning Pool, et cetera and wear heavy thick makeup and studded spike collars and bracelets are called 'Mall goths', shop mostly at Hot Topic, and - this is important - they're not real goths. They just seem to think they are. They act disturbed and surly and try to impress/intimidate people. It seldom works, as most are obviously pathetic, and almost all will (thankfully) grow out of it. If you'd like a comprehensive explanation, try visiting goth.net. Some songs that goths might listen to:\nDragonfly (Conjure one mix) - Cruxshadows\nDazzle - Siouxsie and the Banshees\nThe Passion of Lovers - Bauhaus\nLucretia My Reflection - Sisters Of Mercy\nLullaby - The Cure\nShe's Lost Control - Joy Division\nIn Our Angelhood - The Cocteau Twins\nFuneral Night - Bella Morte \nDeliverance - The Mission UK\nCemetary Gates - The Smiths\nAre 'Friends' Electric? - Tubeway Army\nLove Is Stronger than Death - The The\nNowhere Girl - B-Movie\nTwilight Of The Mortal - Killing Joke\nSeconds - The Human League\nIndigo Eyes - Peter Murphy\nRight Now - The Creatures\nWalk on the Moon - Daniel Ash\nNo Big Deal - Love and Rockets\nFire Woman - The Cult
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well not all goth and emo individuals are bad, sometimes they have a bad life and take it out on their clothes or their bodies, or sometimes they feel like they need a lot of attention so they say to themselves hey I'm gonna get a billion piercings and run around in cool looking clothing!, and sometimes it can be because of a religion like they feel they need to hide their bodies to the lord or something, their not bad, most of the time just misunderstood.\np.s hope I helped Tara
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People find comfort in believing others are like them. They created a "normal" way of acting outwardly but inside everyone is still unique. (being different isn't the bad thing though, lying to yourself to "fit in" is)
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Because gothic - not real gothic, but what they think is gothic - is becoming more popular, due to media exposure and trendsellers like Hot Topic. They co-opt the look without taking part in the intellectual process, making it more and more difficult for outsiders to tell what's goth and what's not. Every time some 14 -year - old claims 'i am goth and i luv hottopic and slipkot and evenesence' a very small piece of me dies. Anyway, I asked and answered some questions on similar subjects. Look in my best answers column for some more information.