Russia Emo

Russia started working on legislation last year that will make it illegal to be an emo in their country. They want to regulate websites that promote the emo culture and are wanting to ban emo and goth culture clothing in schools. Fueling this leglislative action is a fear that the dangerous trend of emo culture provides a negative impact and glorifies suicide and anti-social behavior. Masses of emo kids protested this outrageous band, and were backed by Russian emo band MAIO, which said that “expressing psychological emotions is not forbidden by law.”


Early last year, a wave of violence against emo kids was spreading across Mexico and was allegedly coming from hardcore, metal and punk kids that didn’t like the look or attitude of emo kids. About 800 people joined arms against emo fans which resulted in many violent attacks, and later in 2008, the same thing happened in Mexico City. Both times, it was reported that the emo fans marched peacepully down the street amid the attacks. The same year, Chile broadcast an assault on emos by skinheads who didn’t care for their music or attitude, as well.

In keeping with the negative connotation that comes from the emo subculture, a teenage girl in the UK killed herself last year by hanging herself from her bunkbed with a tie, believing that her death would impress followers of the emo movement in the UK. Thought to be a bright, fun-loving girl on the outside, the girl was apparently harboring an emotional nature inside, even going so far as to cut her wrists. None of the girl’s teachers had any issues with her in school, and her parents were oblivious to the inner turmoil of their daughter until she died. The teenager, 13, left a suicide note on her social networking page, Bebo, using the screen name “Living Disaster.”

In 2007, a news channel in Salt Lake City, Utah ran a program about emo culture that linked it to suicide, depression, cutting and self-mutilation. A reporter said that emo culture is terrorize the youth of Utah, and romanticizes death. While most of the reports were completely unfounded, it suceeded it scaring many parents in the Utah area.