There are different kinds of Goths
for example:
Romantic Goth
attitude: My capacity for love is certainly greater than this mortal coil can bear.
clothes: Anything with lace and frills: Edwardian, Victorian, renaissance.
Mopey Goth
attitude: Gentle people always perish in an unkind world.
clothes: romantic, modern.
Fetish Goth
attitude: Gentle people are excellent for spanking.
clothes: leather, PVC, fishnet, chains.
Perky Goth
attitude: Woohoo!
clothes: modern, fetish, cyber
Raver Goth
attitude: If it don't glow, it don't show.
clothes: phat pants, t-shirts, tank tops, flourescent thingies
Goth Geek
attitude: It's better than being a plain geek.
clothes: modern
Vampire Goth
attitude: Vampires are cool.
clothes: formal, jetset, romantic.
Pagan Goth
attitude: The occult and/or Celtic religions are cool.
clothes:
Ren Faire Goth
attitude: The Renaissance Faire and role-playing games are cool.
clothes: medieval, renaissance, Scottish.
those are the general goth sub-cultures...
Goth is a very generalised term. In most cases yes. there are goths who dont. Its imposable to say for sure to all goths because there are as many different types of goths as there is goths themselves.
No, emos are not goths. They are two different subcultures.
There are alot that do. There are also Jewish Goths, Muslim Goths, Atheist Goths, etc.
Some are... Me and my boyfriend are true goths and we are christians :D ... but some types of goth aren't.
Goths
Maybe because goths seem to have a habit of wearing worshipping black...this is just a phrase...but most goths today are seen in black clothes, black leather, black lipstick, eyeliner, hair...etc... or maybe its because goths arent the sme from everyone else soo people assume they are strange but infact they are just a little different.
Are you talking about Goths as in people into the Gothic Music scene? Yes there are African Goths, African-American Goths, Japanese Goths. It's just a style of music and a music subculture and people all over the world like it.
The Goths were Arian Christians.
Well, it depends on the person. Of course goths don't have anything against themselves. Usually people dislike goths because they're different and when it comes to the human mind, its common for us to relate different with bad. I personally love goths and see them as very interesting people. Many people have nothing against Goths at all, whether they are Goth or not. Some who dislike it may just feel it's too dark for their taste, but that doesn't mean they hate the individual. It's a form of xenophobia, the fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners. People tend to be wary and afraid of things they are not familiar with or are different from them. As for "Goths," some people who consider themselves normal, look at their dress, piercings and overall appearance, dislike those things and transfer that dislike to "Goths" as persons in general. It is essentially a type of racism; not as malicious as some other forms, but still racism in the sense that one type of person dislikes another type as a whole just because their appearance is different.
the Romans paid the goths not to attack
The Visigoths were the western branch of the Goths. The Goths were original from Sweden and migrated through eastern Europe all the way to Ukraine. When the Huns invaded their land, some of the Goths asked the Roman emperor to allow them to settle in the lower Danube area of the Roman Empire to escape the Huns. This was granted. The rest of the Goths were conquered by the Huns and became their vassals. The Goths in the Roman Empire then came to be called Visigoths (Goths of the west) because at that point they lived further west than the other Goths. The other Goths came to be called Ostrogoths (Goths of the east).
Very carefully. Rome was defeated by the Goths and the city of Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. The Goths in a short time controlled all of Italy. The goths became the concern of the eastern emperors who were wary of them both militarily and religiously, as the Goths were Arian Christians.