In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form
             of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These
             dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the
             beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures,
             class, gender and ethnic ideologies. So, the youth culture, in challenging
             societal values, at the same time is reflecting them.
             In comparing Margaret Mead's young adults in Coming of Age in Samoa to
             Russian youth it is evident where the differences arise. The Samoans
             strong cultural values leave little need for individual expression.
             Expectations of the children change as they get older. They know what
             is expected of them and want to follow the rules.
             In contrast, the youth in the Soviet Union, live in a culture of
             confusion. They feel constricted by the laws of the society, see families
             collapsing around them, and believe things should change. They want to be
             individuals and they want to live by their own values and ideas. Many come
             from broken homes and poor communities with little respect for authority.
             They rebel against what they feel is an unjust society and look for a
             culture or group that they can identify with.
             Often society depicts these groups as dangerous, deviant and
             delinquent. These groups, however, just show many of the valued structures
             of society, but in a more radical way. They have a standard code of dress,
             values, ethics and rebel in order to force their ideas onto the public and
             to feel part of a recognizable group.
             Margaret Mead noticed little individual differences among the Samoans.
             "We have seen that the Samoans have a low level of appreciation of
             personality differences" (Mead, 1973, 161). The Samoan's strong cultural
             and family traditional values do not allow for individualism. In
             comparison, Soviet youth express their individualism through yo...