A wave of anti-emo emotion has swept across Mexico resulting in a string of attacks on teenagers who are associated with the music and fashion trend. The largely youth trend originated in the United States in the mid-1990's but entered Mexican culture nearly a decade ago. The look being targeted in Mexico is usually tight fitting jeans on both boys and girls, long, straight hair with long bangs brushed to one side, tight fitting t-shirts, studded belts and canvas or skate-boarding sneakers. Many cite the scathing criticisms of Mexican TV personality Kristoff for inciting the waves of attacks. Kristoff later retracted his statement and condemned the attacks.

1. March 7th: first reported instance of anti-emo violence in city of Queretaro.
2. Anti-emo movement has propagated and organized online through message boards and social networks.
3. March 15th: Emo population stages silent march through Queretaro main center.
4. Organized by Mexico City gay-rights organization
5. Skinheads in Chilehave reportedly been fighting emo kids prior to the Mexican violence.

1. Cultural origins: Mid-1980s, Washington, DC
2. Mainstream popularity: Sporadically through the 1980s and '90s, growing in the early 2000s
3. Stylistic origins: Hardcore punk, indie rock

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• LosAnjealous.com: Today’s Recommended Mexican Emo Bashing Threads (March 27, 2008)

• The Daily Swarm: Mexico's Emo Witch Hunt: mob attacks in Mexico City and Guadalajara (March 25, 2008)

• LA Daily: More on the emo attacks in Mexico (March 22, 2008)

• Last.fm: Anti Emo Revolution in Mexico -Updated- (March 22, 2008)

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