This document describes 5 different urban tribes:
1) A tribe born in the 80s that frequents specific bars and admires death and occultism, dressing in black leather and religious symbols.
2) A tribe born in the 60s associated with drugs and promoting peace and love, having long hair and colorful clothes while rejecting consumerism.
3) A tribe born in the 70s that is sometimes mixed with skinheads and has anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist beliefs, being very violent against neo-Nazis and wearing spiked leather jackets.
4) A tribe originating from Jamaica in the 70s that expresses disappointment through reggae music, graffiti, and
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Urban tribes
1. Name:
This urban tribe was born in the 80s. They are sometimes in specifics bars (places). They
are apolitics and they admire everything about death and the occultism. They look like a
violent tribe but they're peaceful. They hear music from "Lacrimosa" to "Therion". They
wear black clothes of leather, spiked accessories and religious elements for example
crosses or five-spiked stars.
Name:
This urban tribe was born in the 60's with Vietnam War. They are known for the drugs
consumption. They proclaim the peace and love. They don't like the policy and they have
anarchist ideas. They have long hair and use colorful clothes. Their lifestyle is close to
nature and far from consumerism.
Name:
This urban tribe was born in the 70s. Sometimes they are mixed with heavies and
skinheads. They have an ideology anarchist, okupa, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and anti-
capitalist. They're very violent and their enemies are: Neo-Nazis, Posh and fascists.
They have big and colorful crests and a lot of piercings and tattoos. They wear spiked
leather jacket, black T-shirts with a social slogan or symbols.
Name:
It is an urban culture that was born in the 70s in Jamaica and through Caribbean
immigrants entered the United States. This culture is nothing more than an expression of
disappointment and social criticism through a unique music, dress and the famous
graffiti. This tribe is associated to hip-hop culture because one of their points of view is
to produce music through poems written by them.
Name:
This tribe is the base of other Japanese cultures; they came to the manga or Japanese
tales. People who follow this tribe like to collect posters of images and also animated
figures. Their look is based on animated characters, which is the reason of why they wear
colorful clothes, extravagant accessories and unique haircuts. From this tribe the visual
culture appeared.