Currently, the concept of Gothic subculture is somewhat distorted. The problem is that modern people for the most part see in the Goths only their external component. All these conversations about walking around cemeteries, about certain mystical rituals and about specific makeup do not reflect the essence of the subculture and do not fully reveal the ready, because all this is only external paraphernalia. It is necessary to highlight this issue in detail.
Instruction manual
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Goths - this is not some kind of external stylization for death and for everything connected with it. Goths are adherents of a subculture in its original sense. Their philosophy is individual. Their attitude to certain phenomena of objective reality is a purely personal opinion and is not clear to an ordinary person. Ready even has its own romance. However, do not confuse the true Goths with the so-called pseudo-Goths! Pseudogoths - those who simply wear black clothes play death, but at the same time have nothing to do with the real Gothic movement. These people only repeat the basic features of the Gothic image. Incidentally, those who believe that the Goths are wholly and completely connected with gloomy and afterlife music are also wrong. This is not true! Ordinary people can listen to Gothic: this is music by mood.
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The Gothic subculture began to spread widely and develop at the end of the last century, and Goths became people for whom the world itself and its values are alien. However, do not equate all ready for the mere concept of their subculture. It should be understood that behind each of the adherents of this trend (mainly youth), wearing dark robes and other specific attributes, there is a separate person with his own specific problems. To understand who the Goths are, you need to learn to see in these people not their image, but the images that dominate the Gothic milieu. However, one should not look at the images of demons, monsters and death, but at loneliness, which passes through an invisible thread through the whole life of a goth.
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Psychologists and sociologists believe that teenage Goths are maximalists and romantics. In such boys and girls, these feelings are manifested to a much greater extent than in their peers who are not representatives of this subculture. Psychologists say that many young Goths have a fairly high intellect, allowing them to think about the meaning of life and about those things that their peers still have nothing to do with.
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Modern Goths have mixed elements of several styles. For example, from punk style piercings, tattoos, metal chains were taken. From there, the Goths adopted the predominance of black fabric in the form of velvet, suede, satin or leather. Gothic pendants and pendants look like skulls, bats, crosses, coffins, etc. Modern Goths prefer silver as their metal for their attributes. The beautiful half is ready to acquire laces, corsets, lace, flounces, etc. Unfortunately, many modern Goths are not adherents of the Gothic subculture, but some kind of informal lifestyle, but informal Goths also have a special view of the world and current events, which differs from the general Gothic orientation.
