viernes, 20 de febrero de 2009

¡Pokemones, Emos, y Góticos, oh my!

There are various types of young people in Santiago. Here are some groups/categories:

1) Los Pokemones: They´re basically like punks/hipsters/scenesters, etc. And yes, it does come from the word "Pokemon." Don´t ask me why they chose that word to describe themselves.
2) Los Emos: Pretty self-explanatory. "La vida es tan cruel blah blah blah."
3) Los Góticos: Goths. Although I still feel like they're pretty similar to emos. Yes, I know, the main stereotypical difference is that the emos are more depressed, and the goths are more angry. Anyway, it doesn´t matter, if I could venn diagram the two, I´m sure there would be a huge overlap.
4) Los Cuicos: Rich, stuck-up Chilenos.
5) Los Flaités: If someone is flaité, that means that they´re gangsta, but not in the same way it means in the U.S.: "Hey I'm a white person from the suburbs and I want to dress like I've have street cred and I've been through shit. Do you think this new Sean John outfit from his spring collection that I bought with my mom's credit card makes me look legit?" Flaité has a more negative connotation here. 

Speaking of Pokemones and other groups, me and some EAP people went to a punk club called Blondie´s a few weeks ago (unfortunately, not the same as the Bay Area pizza joints). There were different dancing rooms to different music, but what was most fascinating and amusing to me is that most of the people that went to the club were punks, but in the dancing room that we were dancing in (the biggest dancing room in the club, and totally packed), they had no shame, and in fact, reveled in, dancing to Madonna and other 80s and 90s-tastic artists. My favorite song of the night that they danced to? "I´m Too Sexy." 

They would totally be disowned by the punks in the U.S.

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