Foreign media evaluation of Shamate

According to reference information, on December 4, 2013, the website of the bimonthly magazine "Foreign Policy" published an article titled "Failure of Fame and Fortune" on December 2. The article believes that "Shamate"'s unusual fashion choices reflect a deeper reason: a sense of collective alienation, which is a by-product of China's immigration wave and the country's widening class distinctions. The full text of the article is as follows:

On November 5, 2013, a Chinese Weibo user with 1.72 million followers posted three photos of the back of a young man with an afro on Sina Weibo. "Catching a hamster alive on the street," he wrote cheerfully, adding that his hair style resembled "the molecular structure of some kind of virus." At the same time, there is a video on Youku called "Shamate Meets Washing, Cutting and Blowing". The content is that a long-legged girl adapted the song "Gentleman" by Korean pop singer "Uncle Psy" Park Jae-sang. It has been viewed more than 2.4 million times. The wash, cut, and blowout refers to the Shamut group's often eccentric hairstyles. These "shamat" are young immigrants who have been lost in China's urbanization trend. The number of this subculture is unknown, but it is growing steadily. An article on the "Marco Polo Project" website pointed out that in "Shamate", this youth "subculture" is no longer a non-mainstream rebellion, let alone the unconventional heavy metal style or Gothic style of European and American countries that want to show rebelliousness. On the contrary, their image is an attempt to get closer to the mainstream.