I remember when I read the essay about Burnouts and Jocks. I kept telling myself, high school is more than these two groups and the in-betweens. My high school was full of more sub-cultures than Maury having baby-daddies on his show.
First off, there were the greasers. These are the same kids that you would see in American Graffiti. Since they worked on cars most of the time their attire wasn't the fanciest. Jeans, bandanas and undershirts were these guys. And you can tell when you hanging out with one when he mentions the new headers, that he put on his '58 super-charged mustang, with a rear wheel drive that'll have you drifting every turn. They would get so detailed and specific you would have to buy a car magazine to keep up, ( I sure did). But they enjoy other things in life but their car is their passion whether from the laughable stock dodge neon to the import turbo-charged supra. But we didn't call them greasers, at my school they didn't really have a term a few of em liked "Racers" since most of them were street racers but that's another subculture for another time.
I didn't roll with the Goth crowd all that much, only some times and that's because they were a tight-nit group. If you become friends with one don't think about joining with the rest. I think it's because they didn't want someone to judge them off the bat suddenly but they were cool. They listened to a lot of metal and rock they always wanted to start a band. Influenced by Korn, Maryliyn Manson, Slipknot. It's easy to spot them because they wore a lot of black, big pants with chains on them and so many different hair style, from long to spikes and all sorts of color. Some of them had piercings or snake bite pericings (the peircings that come out of the sides of your bottom lip). I recall they all seemed "laid back" and "chill".
On the polar opposite end of the goths were the Jocks and Valley Girls.
Where to begin? They wore a lot of bright colors and were always loud about their drama. In one conversation you also would hear "like" and "oh my god" used so often it would lose it's meaning after the sixth time. If you wanted gossip about someone those girls would have it or snoop for it. I put them in the same category with the jocks because a few of them were cheerleaders and hung out with the jocks. The Jocks are what I, personally consider, Valley Guys. The big dudes on the football, lacross any sports team. They smoke, it didn't matter if they would weeze in the game, they would smoke and drink, as if tomorrow was not going to arrive. They were the overlords of the school if they got in trouble there punishment would be minimal, because of the team. Going against them is like going up against a conservative with a nuclear weapon, you'd be shut out immediately. Hence, they always protect and look out for each other.
Hippies. These were the guys who would sit outside before school and during lunch playing hacky-sack when weather is nice. Everyone to them is their "bro" or "dude" or "man". I swear they were outside for the cigarette or weed smoke to air out. The clothes were similiar to greasesr but instead of undershirt they woudl bring back the 70s with tiedye or musician that they were into, "cuz he's the stuff, man, ya know?"
The Hip-Hoopers, Hood Kids. - These guys all bonded together through music, that's actually how i joined them. Not everyone liked the same but agreed that Tupac was one of the greatest. Wearing sweaters, baggy jeans, and brand name shirts all the time. Nike, Encye, Fubu, Rebock, Puma, Ecko... and many more. Movies were a big thing too, you wouldn't see the Oscar's on most of thier lists and most of them have seen or heard of Belly. Most of them lived their "Ol' Girl" (Mother) and "Ol' Man" (Father). Their peers all considered each other homie, homeboys, brothers, son or young'in. And this subculture would give we each other "Dap" (batting thier fists togther). And who knew you could ask person how theyre doing so many times? "What's going down?" "What's crackin?" "How you be?" "What's good?"
Lastly, the nerds and geeks. You wanted to the know the stark difference of a GForce, Nvidia and Direct-X graphics card and not blink. They'll tell you why the 1st edition G.I. Joes won't be as valuable as the 2nd edition. A lot of talk about technology can go between these guys or just about sci-fic movies and literature. I remember once when some put hot sauce on his food and when he bit into it he started flipping out looking for water. These guys were sitting at his table and instead of giving him water they debated why water wouldn't fix things, 100%. It was one of the most hilarious things I've seen.
-David "Dawood" Bowen
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