Yuppies and Yubbies

[anastasia]

the first time I hear about yuppies were twenty years ago, but I've never heared about yubbies before this lesson.
reading about this theme, in my country, Spain, you can easily find all these kind of groups, there are current philosofies.
maybe I'm a middle youther yubbie. Will it will be a new class of people??

[charly]

Hi!, i live in lleida, Cataluña, and there are some yubbies around the city. Especially in university zones is where i see more people that suits to yubbies description. People that care abaout recycling, that minds the problems of the poorest countries and sometimes demonstrate in favour of what they think is not fair.
There are also some middle youthers that refuse to grow up. People around 30 years old that play with videogames, go out at night every thursday, friday and saturday. But, in other way, they live with their girlfriends or wifes and they have to do the shopping, bring the children to the school, de the house work...

[charly]

Nowadays we have a great number of styles and fashions. Old fashioned clothes are back and live together with new urban styles,in fact some people mix that two styles to make a new way of dressing. This is also combined with original hairstyles and some accesories like piercings, pins or different make ups that helps people to make themselves original or like a specific way of dressing that shows that they belong to a concrete group (punks, mods, gothics, emos, skaters...). Where i live the people is quite "normal" in the way of dressing.

In fact, there isn't many shops to buy and we all dress so similar. Some people try to be different with wide jumpers and trousers, caps, tatoos (like skaters) or punks wearing leather jackets, long hair and flared trousers. But the 90% of the people tend to dress with trendy clothes.