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In the past when American teenagers had made money, their earnings, more often than not, had gone to help support their parents or had been saved for one treasured and long-desired purchase, like a baseball glove or a bike, or it had been set aside for college.

Other dances: In addition to the many styles of swing, there was also the Stroll, the solo version of Bop, Chalypso American Bandstand's name for teen cha-cha , the line dance Madison soon followed by the , the Bunny Hop, various kinds of slow dancing, and more.

, especially as youth culture is the dominant culture in the west.

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A new young generation of Americans was breaking away from the habits of its parents and defining itself by its music.

Contrary to claims on some WCS web pages, 1950s teenagers deserve the credit for many or most of the fundamental innovations that defined West Coast Swing thirty years later.

They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

These teen clothing fashions that originated in America, filtered to Britain in watered down fashion.

Because they were born too late to fight, the feeling of not belonging has created a serious morale problem for the lost generation.

" Farrar, Straus and Giroux reports that "petting" joined the national lexicon in the 1920s, later defined by sexologist Alfred Kinsey as "deliberately touching body parts above or below the waist," writes Weigel.

Marcel Danesi argues that since then, the media, advertisers and others have made youth the dominant culture of Western societies, to the point that many people retain what others consider to be immature attitudes far into adulthood.