Denise Winterman BBC
Excerpted from the March 23, 2006
A new study says that behind the black hair dye and white make-up goths are simply art lovers who aspire to middle-class values. Is it true?
the time your teen decides to dye his hair black and appeals to the creative with eyeliner can be a nightmare for parents. But a report suggests it may be a time to celebrate.
As suggested by the results of the study at the University of Sussex, is likely to goths grow up to be doctors, lawyers or architects.
are refined and sensitive, fans of poetry and books, not special interest on drugs or anti-social behavior. It is also likely to continue being goths into their adult life.
have the ability to express their feelings and are believers in romance than in casual sex one night, says the report. In fact, the only things dark about goths is their clothing and their sarcastic sense of humor.
"They will not like me saying it, but their lifestyle, unlike the punk scene, is a middle-class subculture," said Dunja Brill, who carried out the study.
"They are usually intelligent youngsters who have rejected the idea that teenagers must meet certain requirements." Like all
But is this really well? Will the pale and haggard young man in the house next to future bank manager in 10 years? There is no better place to find out that the "gothic Mecca that is Camden Market in London.
"Where I live it's usually the chavs who start all the trouble, and not the goths, so I think we quite a peaceful lot," says Antoinette Drakes, 16.
"We just mind our own business and do what we like to do. But goths are like any other group, and much depends on the individual."
"Overall we are quite sensitive but there are some who are not, they're in a pose. Some end up doctors and some will be unemployed. Goths are a mix of personalities, like everyone else. "
If anything distinguishes this article is the peculiarity with which describes the Gothic taking care to separate from the usual cliches to which they are associated. It deals with present as members of a subculture that does not necessarily respond to a transient or transient fashion but has the characteristics of a permanent lifestyle may even remain during adulthood. also emphasizes the values those who aspire goth, which is described as intelligent, ambitious and able to build promising futures. The latter, coupled with the assertion that no "special interest in drugs or antisocial behaviors," debunks the myth, fed up with this in society and the mass media, which tend to enroll in attitudes goths suicidal or violent criminals. On the other hand, the study cited in the text overthrows the idea of \u200b\u200bGothic as adept at sexual immorality and dissolute life in both states who "believe in the romance more than sex in one night."
However, the voice of the same Gothic - conveniently present in the article, handles stress that the reality is not as ideal as it is described above, which is repeated a claim that we noted in the definition that the goths are about themselves: there is no unambiguous description of the subculture as much of the same is defined by the individuals who compose it are not always behave the same way.
latter opens the door to a series of events leading to the press to present the movement in many ways that often are contradictory.
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