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Lifestyle

**//People in the punk community came from all sorts of economic classes, both rich and poor. //**

==The Punk culture is known for being one of the most gender equal, and you rarely see any form of gender discrimination within the punk communities. The Punk Culture is known to be anti-racist, tough there are very few African American, Latinos or Asians within the same community. ==

Drug abuse has long been a part of the punk culture, but in the later years it has slowly began to decrease. As its got a reputation as "Hippie love shit" among the newer generations of punks. Tough there has been some punk enjoinments where drugs have been a taboo, for example the "Straight Edge Movement" - a punk gang who took distance from drugs. Violence has for long been another part of the environment, fights among punks are not unrare but does not have the same meaning as fights do in normal culture. Fighting within the punk movement is a form of fun/game and rarely involves serious injury. Many punk environments also make their own punk scenes, the first big one in the world was made in New York in the 70's and not long after there was one in London to. Also smaller towns had punk scenes that could house about half a dozen people. At the punk scene there was held everything from artcontests to music concerts and dance-offs. In some punk communities, squatting is also a normal part of life. Squatting is when you break into a house and live there. Often old and abandoned factories or houses were taken as illegal shelter for homeless punks and drug-abusers. Squatting is looked upon as rebellic and has for long been a part of the punkish lifestyle.

For modern punk, internet has played a bigger role. There are many virtual communities for punks, where they socialize, share opinions about music, politics and so on. But also file sharing is a important aspect. File sharing is often supported by punks because it’s a rebellic, but also because it strides with the rules and guidelines that the government has set - which is exactly what the punkish lifestyle is about - ANARCHISM.

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