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 ﻉм٥  which is the short form of ‘Emotional’ refers to someone who is full of feelings.

The popular culture portrays Emo stereotypes as being emotional, depressed, angst, close themselves up or tries to shun away from others. In addition, many Emos tend to cut themselves, which also means self mutilation

The Emo culture is learned. It originates from rock music mostly hardcore punk and indie rock. When such genres of music being adopted by the mainstream media, more people get exposed to such music and their lyrics which contain Emo lyrics such as those of suicide, hate and depression.

Most of the culture followers are teenagers between 15-23 years of age. While some adopt the fashion style of Emo which often is about wearing dark coloured clothings, wearing accessories with metal studs, dying your hair jet black, having long fringes which covers your face, others feel attached to the lyrics of the songs and slowly become socially detached or emotionally unstable. The most extreme cases would be ‘cutting’ or self mutilation. Many feel that by doing so, they can vent all their emotions; they want to direct their anger to someone but is being directed at themselves instead. They would slit their wrists, arms or even legs as many times as they want, or carve words of hatred onto any parts of their body mostly the arms.

   

The Emo culture is shared. To be accepted and belong in a group means to behave according to the group’s norms. In a group, if your friends tend listen to Emo music or dress Emo, peer pressure sets in and you would tend to accept being Emo as the norm and start acting Emo too. How the Emo culture became a fad i believe would be because its in ’fashion’ and also largely due to peer pressure. An important point to note why teens resort to cutting may not be because they feel extremely urged to do so, but peer pressure, or you can say ‘Monkey see Monkey do’. Many a times, such a culture is being cultivated because ‘ i saw my friend doing it, and i think its cool, so i do it too’ ; yes, exactly, that cool ‘factor’- or doing something different from the rest(the normal people).  

The Emo culture is multifaceted. There is the Emo lingual-which normally speaks of socially or emotionally negative feelings. There is the Emo fashion as mentioned. There is the Emo worldview- they feel that the world has let them down in some way or another.

The Emo culture is dynamic. When an aspect of the culture is being touched, another aspect is being changed as well. That is, culture is ever-changing. The Emo culture has been around since the 1980s and is slowly changing in the way they express themselves be it in the lyrics, tunes and fashion. As we modernize, the culture follows as well, and because of the mainstreaming of the Emo culture, it has become more popular in youths nowadays.