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Young people in Britain are very different from their parents, and the country has changed a lot in the last twenty years. Young British people don't like to wear suits and ties: they wear the clothes that they want to wear. These are usually old clothes, or clothes with a lot of color.
They leave their parents' home when they're eighteen or nineteen. Most of them go to London, where they live in 'bed-sits' or with other people in a flat. They like London because they want to live differently from their parents, and, in London, everybody can live in his own way: nobody asks questions about anybody else. The man in the bowler hat isn't rude about the man in the red and yellow trousers, and the man in the red and yellow trousers isn't rude about the man in the bowler hat.
Young British people are very imaginative. Records of British 'pop' music are sold everywhere in the world, and most clothes for young people come from London. In the nineteen-sixties, when the Beatles and Carnaby Street became famous, foreigners began to call London 'Swinging London'. Swinging music is music that goes very fast, and they thought that everything in London went very fast, too!
Today, only tourists go to Carnaby Street. Some young Londoners go to King's Road in Chelsea, where there are a lot of boutiques. But they don't often buy clothes there: they go there to walk along the road and show other people what they're wearing. On Saturday afternoons, you can see some of the strangest clothes (and people) in the world in King's Road!
Most young people buy their clothes cheaply in the 'markets'. A market is usually several stalls that are put up by people on the pavements of streets. But these new markets are large buildings full of very small shops where you can buy rings, clothes and records. The most well-known is Kensington Market.
Because so many young people live in London, there are discotheques everywhere. There are also concerts of 'pop' music in the big parks. Thousands of people come from everywhere where in Britain to sit on the grass and listen to the music.
One of the most interesting things in London is the famous street market in Portobello Road. The stalls in this market sell antiques: some of the antiques are very good and some of them are strange things that old ladies have had for fifty years. The market's on Saturdays and a lot of young Londoners come to it. They buy cheap rings and old photos, and they sit in front of the pubs and talk and play guitars.