Thai's mexican gangs and cultural appropriation

After read the article and watch the video, I could see how a group of people try to copy another culture arguing that they look great and their style fits to their climate. This is an example of cultural appropriation where people thinks that certain manners from another culture are great and they copy them supperficially, even without knowing anything about them. This isn't different from those subcultures like the emos, where people only believe that being emo is just wear black clothes, long hair and appear to be sad for everything.

In the video I learned that those "gangsters" subcultures from Thailand and Mexico have the same structures and basically do the same things when they are in free time. The mainly differences between them are that Thais don't do anything illegal and are good persons with jobs and professional careers. They only use the concept of brotherhood, also they see the gang as a kind of "club" where different people share the same interests and they could leave from the gang in any moment, differently from the mexican gangs. Also they have in common things like having tattoos, costumes like rap and wearing style from the true mexican gangs.