Emo, an abbreviation of 'emotional', is a more melodic and melancholy form of punk rock. It has origins in the United States but has become a well-established global subculture in recent years. Police in Yerevan, Armenia have been conducting a campaign against the capital's small but controversial emo community since the recent suicides of two teenagers who were rumoured to have been emo fans. They claim that the subculture represents a threat to young people's welfare.
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Leader Crowd
Dec 28, 2010 11:35pm
Let them live, they are sensitive people, they consider the masses as grey and there is nothing wrong with that. Our masses are grey they have taken us to these dungeons of no hope. They are creative and want to prove a point to the masses that they are crowd and have no feelings. Yes they are grey, deal with this fact and let these young sensitive people live.
Armenian Police said these people are bad influence on youth and morality. What moralities these authorities talk about. Obeying them and they have all the power on our lives. We pay for their salaries and they want to stop us from thinking in name of culture, religion and morality. Morality is nothing but a perception and no one can standardise this word. Moralities will be defined by every individual human being and not by someone living on taxpayers money and dictating what is morality.
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Flt Lt Usman
Dec 29, 2010 10:13am
Ideology, vision, and attitude!! these three words more or less define a nation, primarily YOUTH. when a nation and especially youth lacks these definitions, they go astray and words like EMO are born.
Ironically there is no ambition, vision or a motive which drives our youth, ( money, car, status etc are never to be confused with vision and motive, these are perks of higher achievements).
This phenomenon of Emo might not be true for our youth now, but in next five years we might become an example of Tag!
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Mohsin Imam
Dec 30, 2010 09:04am
They have the rights to live in this world and they want to create a name
so we suggest that they are creative persons and the norms which could not satisfy their aims and became huddles in their success should be changed or removed. They then be successfully and will be creative and the have the rights to live in this beautiful world.
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Ashok Sharma
Dec 31, 2010 09:52am
I was searching for something that would really tell me why they have been wrong or right in perception. All I can say is you have beautiful pictures to put out but nothing to judge the people who believe in the trend - emo.
I would say let them be, they represent a new ideology and long as it is non-destructive in physical sense or starts putting people in harms way, (self and others), I would sit and watch or probably enjoy if there is a good music in the offering.
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