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**Angeheade** · 07-06-2012, 09:53 PM

Music was a big one growing up as a teenager where I'm from. Back then music affiliations were assigned to terms like 'goth', 'skater', 'skate punk', 'punk', 'raver', 'yo-boy' (also for all the white kids in the burbs who tried hard to immitate hardcore inner city thug culture 'wiggas'). More dated by my teenage years were terms like 'headbanger', and 'grit'.

Terms that are foreign to me now and describe today's youth:

'hipster'
'emo'

but my favorite was witnessing the rise of the term 'hessian'. Not quite sure what is 'Proto-Hessian' but it may or may not involve a mullet from what I've heard.

One sub culture identity that is everlasting in the states:

'Redneck': some feel this denotes an actual ethnicity now

More local and traditional in regards to where I'm from are 'watermen'. These are the crabbers, and fisherman who exploit the resources of the Bay and have been doing it since the 1700's. Its a dying lifestyle and breed. Very local, regional designation.

Great example of an old occupational identity.

07-06-2012, 09:53 PM	#6
Angeheade Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 679 Senior Member	Music was a big one growing up as a teenager where I'm from. Back then music affiliations were assigned to terms like 'goth', 'skater', 'skate punk', 'punk', 'raver', 'yo-boy' (also for all the white kids in the burbs who tried hard to immitate hardcore inner city thug culture 'wiggas'). More dated by my teenage years were terms like 'headbanger', and 'grit'. Terms that are foreign to me now and describe today's youth: 'hipster' 'emo' but my favorite was witnessing the rise of the term 'hessian'. Not quite sure what is 'Proto-Hessian' but it may or may not involve a mullet from what I've heard. One sub culture identity that is everlasting in the states: 'Redneck': some feel this denotes an actual ethnicity now More local and traditional in regards to where I'm from are 'watermen'. These are the crabbers, and fisherman who exploit the resources of the Bay and have been doing it since the 1700's. Its a dying lifestyle and breed. Very local, regional designation. Great example of an old occupational identity.
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