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Concept of cool

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             You could go back about five or six years and see that something that was considered uncool, suddenly became cool. This something is skateboarding. A few years ago skateboarding was something that was looked down upon. If you were a skateboarder you were thought to be a loser or troublemaker. Then with the influence of a few people skateboarding blew up into the new cool. One of these people was Tony Hawk. He brought skateboarding out of hiding and introduced America to its next big fad. Now you can turn on you r T.V. and find such things as the X-Games, and Gravity Games. And the idea of being a skater is now popular among the youth. You"re cool if you skateboard or wear skateboarding apparel. With such a drastic change such as this one wonders if the concept of cool changes over time.
             When you are looking back in time in American culture you can see that the concept of cool does in fact change. In the 50's you were cool if you had a Muscle Car and were rough and tough. Leather was in and so were poodle skirts. From here in came the beat generation. It was al about freeing your mind and being you. Poetry and coffee shops were what was cool. When you move on to the next decade cool was music and drugs and protesting "the man" and war. The 70's was the era of peace and love. Then came the 80's, a time when pop music blew up, monster ballads and hair metal was in. It was after this that we reached the 90's and cool took on many new faces that had never been seen and constantly changed from year to year.
             All these aspects of cool discussed above are what society deemed to be cool, but there is still another side to what is cool. This is what does an individual define as cool. What I mean by this is everyone has something or someone that they think is cool outside of society's general mold. When you talk to a person on a personal level they may reveal that they have hobbies or other things of personal interest.


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