Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico

kidora

3-28-2008 7:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d4408b7d-0c82-472b-bd34-c1533143200c/D58E24B6-EDDA-41F7-BF17-74A826AF1E80/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/D6B2CFEB-1C9E-4BBC-86B4-3BE2C084D13C" alt="Emokids" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html">Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to ... defend emo kids?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html"> A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html">Music-based subcultures have permeated Mexico's major cities for
decades, fueled by constant migration from rural cities. But only in
the past year have emos begun to make their presence felt in the
streets. In response, many of the established so-called <EM>tribus urbanas</EM>
like punks and metalheads are responding with violence. The emo-punk battles are reminiscent of earlier subculture fights among various factions, like the Hell's Angels fighting hippies at the <A href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5934386/rock__rolls_worst_day">Altamont Music Festival</A> or the <A href="http://dsdomingo.multiply.com/journal/item/6/THE_MODS_AND_ROCKERS">Mods taking on the Rockers</A>.   </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fJPeffMSzVA&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1&hl=en" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D58E24B6-EDDA-41F7-BF17-74A826AF1E80/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

kidora says:

This is just kinda weird ... could we compare this to East coast and West coast rap?