Today, in my Chilean culture class, we were reading an article from one of the papers here in Chile about "Tribus Urbanas." In general, they are 'sub-cultures' that the young peoples of Chile have flocked to, over the more recent decade or two. The groups are based mainly on outward appearance (not foreign to the states). Things like hair style, clothing, make-up, slang, where you live, went to school, etc. The main group are titled: Pelolais, Pokemon, Otaku, and Emos. I dont know all of the specifics, but there are plenty of people studying this process so feel free to hit google.
My basic thought when sitting in the classroom, hearing all of this, was that once again, we've been lied to. The young generation here, los jovenes, has been fed lies. There is nothing wrong or right with any type of clothes, as long as you do have something on, that's not what I mean.
The lie is this: You must change the way you appear to people in order to express yourself, who you are, and feel like a part of 'something'.
This lie stands in direct oppsition to the truth -The Gospel. The Gospel works the exact opposite way. Jesus' message is, let me change you, you don't have to change yourself before you come to me. The change is from the inside, the heart and it's not about you, not about your image, but about Christ. I don't find it odd that Satan tries new ways to lie to us all of the time, ways the we just dismiss as a 'form of expression'. This is the same in Chile, USA, Austria...it's worldwide. I've only been an eye-witness in two of the aformentioned, but there's the world. A broken place, looking for life in places they can't find it. Look no more. Love is here.
2 Corinth. 12:9
Thanks for reading...I love you Jess.
Great insight and thought provoking. You have touched on a topic many of us wrestle with continually. So what are we to do? Sit and wait for the rest to change, may it not be so. We have been given the gift of "free will". Let us use it live to the fullest( under grace ), and bless those who will receive.
ReplyDeleteKeep looking for truth. It will always find you. You continue to amaze me.
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Ecclesiastes 11:8-10
8Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him (J)rejoice in them all, and let him remember the (K)days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
9Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the (L)desires of your eyes Yet know that (M)God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
10So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away (N)pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting
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