In our lesson we were told to go off for an hour and take some photos that had something to do with our topic. With mine being subcultures, i found it quite difficult to gather anything to do with what i had. I ended up taking some photos of students as they are considered a culture of their own. I guess i could have spotted more as people consider a lot of different group as subcultures, but i dont know whether it is just my opinion but i just dont believe that you walk into subcultures in the street anymore, what people think is subculture, i just see as style. Another girl in my group had chosen subcultures as well and she went and took photos of people wearing doc martens, which i thought was a really good idea. Although, later i thought, even though doc martens are an iconic fashion piece from the skinhead subculture, it doesn't really mean anything if your just wearing it as a fashion statement. Don't get me wrong, i own a pair myself and i think they're nice, but i am not saying im part of a subculture by wearing them either. I guess we could say the subculture was so influential that the fashion has stuck up until now, which is a good thing, but i think its how i feel about all of these so-called subcultures, they're just a style.
My pet hate is definitely that 'hipsters' are a subculture. I mean, what are they standing for? are they just not 'conforming' by just wearing different clothes and wanting to look different? A lot of celebrities like lady Gaga wear things most people wouldn't dream of wearing, but i wouldnt say she was uprising and forming a subculture called 'little monsters', so why are hipsters any different? It will probably because its the youth culture that is doing something different to everyone else, but to be honest, they probably just want to be polar opposites to their parents and call themselves individual, but everywhere i look there are hipsters, maybe im the subculture because i dont dress like a hipster.
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