These days psychologists and governments of a number of countries are utterly worried about the psyche of younger generation. Medical researches witness that every day more teens get into despondency and are disposed to commit suicides. The reasons for this might be a few but the weightiest one is the sense of solitude and misunderstanding. There are, although, varied subcultures like emo, punk and goth which have found supporters all over the world.

Youth formations frequently conflict with the antagonists in the aspect of adults and social workers who suppose them to have a pernicious influence on the psyche of teens. On the contrary is the opinion of medics who affirm that the very subcultures assist teenagers to outlive life extreme situations and hardships of transitional age. Let's take emo subculture as a sample. Despite the existing public belief that emo young people are hostile, these boys and girls display as much reverence to everybody regardless of their ethnic belonging or religion. Only to ponder about valor of emo people who bid the defiance to the society by emo clothes and appearance. Emo girls and boys clothing differs from the average way of dressing: both sexes wear sportive shoes, dark tight-fitting trousers with colored belts, colorful pins and straps, a dark jacket and a bag over the shoulder. An emo clothes isn't the way to vary from the rest of people but simply the way to live. Outward appearance of emo boys and girls may as well arouse indignation or repugnance of typical citizens. (more…)