Characteristic |
Cons. Jews |
Christians |
frat culture |
military |
hippies |
ravers |
punks |
emo |
skinheads |
goths |
heshers |
rednecks |
hair |
mainstream, sometimes long sideburn locks, natural colour |
mainstream, natural colour |
mainstream or shaved around sides and short on top, natural colour |
conservative or short, natural colour |
long, sometimes dread locks, natural colour |
mainstream or some shaving, sometimes artificial colours |
mainstream, shaved, mohawked, often artificial colours |
dyed black, usually retro-fifties |
shaved close and often |
mostly long, mostly artificial black |
long |
mainstream or short in front/long in back |
music |
not characteristic |
often "Christian contemporary" or light rock |
pop, funk, rap and classic rock |
not characteristic |
Reggæ, old classic rock, Phish |
techno, ambient, rap, disco, 80s music |
punk rock |
a variant of hardcore |
ska, hardcore, metal, oldies |
industrial, 80s British, sometimes classical and metal |
only metal |
country, metal and (among the girls) pop |
dancing |
traditional |
often taboo |
not characteristic |
not characteristic |
whirling, arrhythmic |
varies greatly, but goes on for hours |
moshing (slam-dancing) |
standing as still as possible |
moshing (slam-dancing) |
sinuous hand movements and swaying |
moshing (slam-dancing), head banging |
not characteristic |
recruitment |
none |
aggressive |
conditional |
somewhat aggressive |
weak |
strong |
negative |
none to negative |
somewhat aggressive |
none |
weak |
weak or none |
clothes |
mainstream or 19th century |
mainstream (pastels popular) |
mainstream (baseball caps popular) |
mainstream or uniform |
androgynous or retro (tie dyes/bellbottoms) |
flamboyant |
black, distressed, marked and spiked |
"dork," or retro-fifties, conservative but elegant |
boots and braces, wife beaters and chains. Usually very tidy. |
19th century, black, spiked and distressed |
mainstream or marked |
mainstream |
drugs |
alcohol |
often none |
lite beer |
alcohol, LSD or none |
marijuana, hallucinogenics |
uppers, designer drugs (Ecstasy) and LSD |
alcohol, heroin |
often none |
mostly alcohol |
alcohol, hallucinogenics, dextromethorphan or none |
marijuana, alcohol |
alcohol |
politics |
diverse |
right wing |
apathetic |
right wing or apathetic |
left wing or apathetic |
mostly apathetic |
left wing or anarchistic |
often conservative, sometimes anarchistic and libertarian |
anarchistic, often right wing and racist |
apathetic |
apathetic |
apathetic, libertarian or right wing |