R 'u Gruppy

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Let’s start with a question. A few questions, actually: When did it become normal for your average 35-year-old New Yorker to (a) walk around with an iPod plugged into his ears at all times, listening to the latest from Bloc Party; (b) regularly buy his clothes at Urban Outfitters; (c) take her toddler to a Mommy’s Happy Hour at a Brooklyn bar; (d) stay out till 4 A.M. because he just can’t miss the latest New Pornographers show, because who knows when Neko Case will decide to stop touring with them, and everyone knows she’s the heart of the band; (e) spend $250 on a pair of jeans that are artfully shredded to look like they just fell through a wheat thresher and are designed, eventually, to artfully fall totally apart; (f) decide that Sufjan Stevens is the perfect music to play for her 2-year-old, because, let’s face it, 2-year-olds have lousy taste in music, and we will not listen to the Wiggles in this house; (g) wear sneakers as a fashion statement; (h) wear the same vintage New Balance sneakers that he wore on his first day of school in the seventh grade as a fashion statement; (i) wear said sneakers to the office; (j) quit the office job because—you know what?—screw the office and screw jockeying for that promotion to VP, because isn’t promotion just another word for “slavery”?; (k) and besides, now that she’s a freelancer, working on her own projects, on her own terms, it’s that much easier to kick off in the middle of the week for a quick snowboarding trip to Sugarbush, because she’s got to have some balance, right? And she can write it off, too, because who knows? She might bump into Spike Jonze on the slopes; (l) wear a Misfits T-shirt; (m) make his 2-year-old wear a Misfits T-shirt; (n) never shave; (o) take pride in never shaving; (p) take pride in never shaving while spending $200 on a bedhead haircut and $600 on a messenger bag, because, seriously, only his grandfather or some frat-boy Wall Street flunky still carries a briefcase; or (q) all of the above?NewYourk Magazine

<雅虎新聞>現在美國也出現類似的族群，他們雖然年約三十多歲了，卻仍然過著二十幾歲，如大學生般的生活，紐約雜誌稱呼他們為gruppy，倒底gruppy有什麼特 質呢？iPod帆布包、最新流行的服飾，這可不是在形容大學學生，而是美國最新出現的新族群，紐約雜誌稱呼他們為gruppy，這個族群年齡三十出頭，卻 不願長大，過著成人社會化的生活，因此他們身穿流行的服飾，聽著非主流的新音樂，表現就像是二十多歲的大學生一般。

因為他們不願意穿著正式服飾上下班，不願意承受沉重的工作壓力，所以大部分的gruppy，並沒有正式工作，他們擁有大量的休閒時間，遊手好閒享受人生，而這也成為辨識gruppy族群的重要指標。

根據紐約雜誌的報導，這個新族群炫風橫掃全美，變成了美國社會現象，許多二十多歲的年輕人，也都主動承認自己將來可能也會變成gruppy，看來經濟景氣不佳，社會壓力日漸增加的情況下，這群有小飛俠彼得潘情結、不想長大的族群，有日漸擴大的趨勢。

這有點跟我們台灣的草莓族似乎有些相似,撇開草莓族不談,我想我也是gruppy一員.但我有正當工作,樂於休閒玩樂.仍然過著20幾歲的生活,更擁有20幾歲的外貌及活力,喜歡吸收新的時尚資訊.我想降也是不錯的,哈哈哈....