Subcultures in UK: What Do Modern People Prefer?

UK is a center of various youth subcultures. UK always considered being one of the strictest countries with the high moral values, but it is the place where most youth subcultures were born. They appeared because of political and social situation in the country. So, let’s have a look at the most popular youth subcultures in the UK.

List of the most popular Youth subcultures in the UK

Goths

Goths subculture appeared in 1980 and is still popular among young people of the UK. It is characterized by wearing dark clothes, black eyeliners, black hair and fingernails. Goths listen to gothic rock music, industrial and death rock.

Punks

Punks appeared in 1970ies and they are people who die hair in bright colors, wear dog collars and strange T-shirts. It was the first subculture that represented women as stars of this subculture as much as men.

Hipsters

Hipsters are open-minded young people, who are for creativity, independence and prefer wearing clothes from different vintage shops. They choose working in the artistic environment like fashion or music.

Metals

Metals are still popular in Great Britain. They are people who listen to the heavy rock music, wear long hair, prefer wearing leather jackets. This subculture is associated with such things as rock, drugs, tattoos and riding bikes. This subculture is usually intolerant to other kinds of subcultures and is considered to be quite aggressive.

Emo

Emo is a subculture that looks like Goths or glam rock subcultures. Emo are people who are not afraid to show their emotions. They wear skinny jeans, use black eyeliner, long hair, usually died in pink color.

Goths, metals, indies, punks, skinheads and many other subcultures found their followers in the UK and are still popular among modern young people.