We have all become too sensitive

[agentsmith]

A tipped hat is not culture. It is fashion. Music, cooking, history, etc. is culture. The big afro's of the 60's and 70's was not culture, it was a fashion fad. Culture is not something that changes with the products being sold at the "new cool store". If that was the case, Benercrombie would be a textbook example of white culture. How scary does that sound.

Just as our parents were criticized for their long "hippie" hair, and we were criticized for the parachute pants (you know you had them), our kids will be criticized for their fashion. Someday they will look back and say "wow, did we look like idiots". It's a parents choice how far they want to let their kids get into the fashion trends. Reasons may very from budget to bigotry, but it is still their choice.

Myself, I agree with Plunger. I wouldn't let me kids look like a gangsta. But my reason is that I don't want people to think that they are morons. Because when I see some kid with his pants hanging down and his hat tipped, the first thought is "That kids an idiot and will be flipping burgers or in prison for the next 30 years." Call me a short minded bigot if you will. I don't care, it's my choice and my kids.

1. Culture has nothing to do with fashion?

2. If my kid wants to dress like a gangsta, I might not like it, but I don't think I would put up a huge fuss. I dressed like an idiot in school, too. A lot of people did. So what? Who cares? It has no bearing whatsoever on what kinda career he'll have, or who he'll marry, or how many kids he'll have. So I might tell him he looks like a moron, but I'll say it with a smile.

I don't recall calling anyone a short minded bigot, if that's what you're implying.

First, fashion has everything to do with culture. How do people identify others with the same culture? How they look! If I walked into the Bob ('the' club in gr) with a pink polo and levis, people will think of me as a bro ("white" culture). But if I wore a pit stained t with sweat pants, there would be a compleatly different reaction because I don't fit with the culture of the club. But I digress. The point is people look at what you wear as an indication as to what culture you hail from.
Just as an example of what people wear in high school not mattering, I knew a guy who wore all black, parachute pants, dyed his mowhawk black, and wore eyeliner. Rediculus, right? Now he owns a business and looks as such. Just my two cents.