Currently, the concept of the 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 in cemeteries, about certain mystical rituals and about specific make-up do not reflect the essence of the subculture and do not fully reveal the Goths, since all these are only external attributes. It is necessary to cover this issue in detail.
Instructions
Step 1
Goths are not some kind of external stylization for death and for everything connected with it. The Goths are adherents of the 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 understandable to an ordinary person. The Goths even have their own romance. However, do not confuse the true Goths with the so-called pseudo-Goths! Pseudo-Goths - those who simply wear black clothes, play death, but at the same time have nothing to do with the real gothic movement at all. These people only repeat the main features of the Gothic image. By the way, those who believe that the goths are completely and completely connected with dark and afterlife music are also wrong. This is not true! Ordinary people can also listen to gothic: it is music according to mood.
Step 2
The Gothic subculture began to spread and develop widely at the end of the last century, and people for whom the world itself and its values are alien to became Goths. However, one should not equate all the ready for only one concept of their subculture. It should be understood that behind each of the adherents of this movement (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 environment. However, you need to look not at the images of demons, monsters and death, but at the loneliness that invisible thread runs through the entire life of the Goth.
Step 3
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 rather high intelligence that allows them to think about the meaning of life and about those things that their peers still do not care about.
Step 4
Modern Goths have mixed elements of several styles. For example, piercings, tattoos, metal chains were taken from the punk style. From there, the Goths also 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 a metal for their paraphernalia. The fair half is ready to acquire lacing, corsets, lace, flounces, etc. Unfortunately, many modern Goths are not adherents of the Gothic subculture, but of some kind of informal lifestyle, however, informal Goths also have a special view of the world and current events, although it differs from the general Gothic orientation.
