[Sonata]

Youth culture is alive and well.

And as for music subcultures, I'm a fan of several genres which have distinctive fashions, art styles and world views - rave, psytrance, drum and bass, hardcore punk, metal. It's great to go along to gigs and meet people from those different groups.

I think what has changed is that those subcultures are no longer exclusive to young people. It has become more acceptable for people to be outwardly "alternative" later in life, so people remain in the cultures they found when they were young.

[swayvil]

What is one modern youth subculture?

Can you name it, its philosophy (roughly, in a nutshell), its music-style and its style of dress?

Because I can't.

Can you name 2 or 3?

[TedDoesntTalk]

As an outsider, it also seems the different subcultures mix now. In the 80s, you would never see some of these groups mingling together. But do they today? Honest question.

[swayvil]

Re : honest question.

That might be called a whiff of subculture. That assumption that a question is a feint and a conversation is a fight. That paranoia.

That's a new and ubiquitous thing. Strong basis for... some kind of cultural formation.