Chilean Urban Tribes

I am not really interesting in this topic, and also I thing people can not give more attention to it, but I will speak about a group of stereotypes of the people in my country. We know them as Urban Tribes, because they are a set of rules and behaviors that just they understand and do it. We have a lot of these tribes, and each of them has its own rules.

If you want know their names I can tell you some as example: Pokemons, Emos, Pelolais, Hondulais, Punks, Artesas, Gothic, Darks, Anime, an a lot more. The common belief is that people from different tribes came from different social levels. For example, people say that pelolais and Hondulais came from high and middle high class; while Darks, Anime, Punks and Artesas come from middle class; finally, from the low class are the Pokemons, Emos, Punk, Gothic and Dark. But please, we must take care about it classification, because, for example, Pelolais are natural blond women, and Hondulais are natural frizzy woman, who do not dress any special clothes. Then, can we call them Urban Tribes? In my opinion we can not, because their kind of hear was not their decision.

The other groups are different, because they use special clothes and also have particular behaviors. Specifically, I will speak about Pokemons, because it is the more controversial group.

My country is so liberal, so is not important for us the way in people dressed, and although this tribe use special clothes, the problem with them is their behavior. It clothes are colorful, and their hears are sometimes colorful but always hairstyle is an specific way. But other thing is their behavior.

Though, they do not have a particular sexual preference, they have the habit of to kiss people from the same sex and to kiss a lot of people at the same time. Also they have sex with different people from the same group, converting them in a group of high risk.

In my opinion they are disoriented children, who need the support from their families and the society. It groups have grown because people have became interesting in them. If we would no attention in their atypical customs, and we will support them, their behavior will change.


Nelson Carrasco A.