ABSTRACT
Out of their need to be something more than children and to achieve some independence, youth have created their own subculture. Complete with its own values, norms, language, and symbols, the subculture has become so well developed and organized that it spans continents and oceans. The unusual styles of dress and grooming, folk heroes, and slang expressions seem more foreign to the parent who lives under the same roof than to another young person thousands of miles away.
