Where does the word "cool" come from?

The word "cool" is one of the most representative and important words in teenage buzzwords in recent years. Contemporary teenagers will say "cool" to express their appreciation for a certain person or a certain behavior, and if they appreciate it to the extreme, they will say "cool". So what does "cool" mean?

"Cool" comes from the movie Roman Holiday. After the heroine cut her hair, she felt very cool, so she touched the back of her head and said: "cool!" After the movie aired, many girls went to cut their hair and followed the heroine's example of touching the back of their heads and said: "cool! It was later translated to Taiwan as "cool".

"Cool" is the Chinese translation of the English word COOL. COOL originally meant cold, and became a street buzzword for American teenagers in the 1960s, initially referring to a cold, anti-mainstream behavior or attitude, and later referring to everything and everyone that could be praised. In the mid-1970s, the word was introduced to Taiwan, where it was translated as "cool", meaning "cool in a dashing way". In the 1990s, it was introduced to the mainland and quickly replaced the word "cool" with a similar meaning, becoming the most popular compliment among teenagers. The word has been enriched in the process of circulation, and now it can mean "good" in a broader sense, not just "cool in a dashing way". Although "cool" means "good," what teenagers think of as "cool" is different from the traditional meaning of "good. If they praise a person "cool", then this person or in the dress, or in the words and behavior, or in the spirit of temperament is certainly unique, full of personality, definitely not the old generation appreciate the kind of simple and enthusiastic, follow the rules of "good"." Maverick, full of personality", is the essence of "cool, but also contemporary youth favor and appreciate the real reason for "cool".

As we all know, our education sector has long been practicing a set of standardized and programmed education model. Under this educational model, many young people lack independent personality and individual consciousness, always passively obey the collective, obey the organization, selfless dedication to society, the self dissolved in the group. The more education young people receive and the more knowledge they have, the more they become more and more homogeneous and homogeneous. Young people's individuality and the ideas and opinions derived from that individuality have disappeared, and their ability to think independently and creatively has been greatly affected. Fortunately, our education has become an indispensable part of modern education. At the same time, contemporary society has also given great tolerance to individuality, on the basis of recognizing individuality, facing up to individuality, respecting individuality, but also often use "flying", "dancing" and such a dynamic suffix to render individuality. In this case, personality has become the goal of the contemporary youth efforts to pursue, they advocate independence of personality, personality development, personality improvement, and advocate self-design, self-selection, self-realization, their sense of individuality, personality consciousness has been greatly enhanced.

Thus, in the minds of contemporary youth, as long as the display of a unique personal style, even if this style does not meet the traditional aesthetic habits and aesthetic standards, should be beautiful. In their view, this style is not only expressed in a person's ideology, spiritual temperament, but also in a person's dress, speech and behavior. Therefore, when the teenager Han Han gave up his studies and fiercely attacked the current education, teenagers will say he is "cool"; when the singer Nicholas Tse appeared in the concert with a face of indifference and arrogance, teenagers will also say he is "cool"." Cool" has become one of the highest expressions of teenagers' appreciation of the beauty of individuality.

Because "cool" is so highly regarded, dressing up as "cool" has become a fashionable thing for today's teenagers to do. The popularity of the "cool style" has made "cool" a common practice. This "cool" only focuses on the external performance, as to play "cool" people do not necessarily have any corresponding ideas and concepts in the heart, they are more to a style, a fashion show. A teenager or in the hairstyle pursuit of grotesque, or in the pursuit of weird clothing, or in the pursuit of strange words, trying to make themselves different, and then get the praise of "cool". This phenomenon on the one hand reflects the immaturity of some young people's minds, but on the other hand, it also shows that represents the beauty of individuality, "cool", in the minds of young people have a very heavy weight.

There is also an English alphabet composed of "IN" is also in recent years in the youth group is quite popular a word, it is directly borrowed from the English language, that "fashion, popular, within the meaning of". IN" is one of the shortest and most powerful words in the English language, which is different from the common expression "fashion" in that it emphasizes the fashion that can be seen at any time and found everywhere, and it is more close to life and more colloquial. Contemporary teenagers tend to use the word "IN" when they appreciate someone or something that is in fashion. If a young man says to you, "You're so in," it means, "You're in" or "You're in style. The opposite of "IN" is "OUT", which means "out of fashion", "geezer" or "old-fashioned". If a young man said to you seriously: "Comrade, you out", that is to say: "You can not keep up with the situation, it is time to change the brain.

The appreciation of "IN" indicates that "fashion" has become an important orientation for contemporary teenagers. That is to say, in the minds of teenagers, as long as the fashionable things, is beautiful, should be their pursuit of the goal. Dyeing colored hair, wearing brand-name sneakers is a fashionable way to dress up, that dyeing colored hair, wearing brand-name sneakers is the beauty of the hair hand text messages, QQ is a fashionable way to communicate, that send cell phone text messages, QQ is the way of communication should be pursued. If a young man is evaluated by others as "OUT", "not fashionable", then he will produce a lot of trouble and pain, because he feels that others say that they are "OUT", "not fashionable" is equivalent to saying that they are not beautiful, is ugly.

There is an important difference between "fashion" and "popularity". Fashion" has the characteristics of newness, avant-garde, distinction and short-term, which is not available in the large-scale popular culture." What is fashionable is often something new and fresh, and this is its newness." Fashion" often walks in front of the popular trend, leading the development direction of the popular trend, this is its avant-garde. The pursuit of "fashion" in the psychological consciousness of the people to distinguish themselves from other groups in society, which is its birth; "fashion" things tend to survive for a short period of time, is fleeting, which is its short-term nature. Therefore, "fashion" and "popular" Ken have a mutually related and mutually exclusive relationship. When a certain phenomenon or a certain item goes from fashion to a wider range of popularity, it also becomes the object of fashion's abandonment. For example, when the Internet buzzwords "dinosaur" and "frog" were just introduced and used by a small number of people, they had the characteristics of fashion; however, when they were gradually used by the majority of people and widely prevalent, they lost the characteristics of fashion and only had the characteristics of popularity.

The pursuit of new and different has always been the nature of teenagers, and the characteristics of "fashion" and their nature is coincidental, "fashion" is also a matter of course to become their respected and favorite things. It can be said that young people have never stopped pursuing fashion. Throughout the various periods after the reform and opening up, from wearing bell-bottom pants and listening to Teresa Teng in the late 1970s and early 1980s, to listening to rock and dancing in the mid-1980s, to chatting on the Internet and playing extreme sports in the late 1990s, it is often the teenagers who have led the fashion trend. Compared with previous eras, fashion occupies a more important position in the life of contemporary teenagers. Contemporary teenagers are a new generation of teenagers growing up under the environment of rapid development of the market economy, due to the spread of consumerism, due to the mass media's publicity on fashion, due to the exceptionally rapid change of fashion, teenagers' desire to pursue fashion consumption is very strong. Fashionable clothes, fashionable jewelry, fashionable daily necessities, fashionable communication tools, fashionable computers, etc. are all the targets of their pursuit. For example, cell phone is an important communication tool in our life. Due to the continuous development of science and technology and the creativity of manufacturers, the functions and styles of cellular phones are constantly being updated, and fashionable new cellular phones are constantly appearing, and teenagers are often the first ones to own fashionable cellular phones. From the youth fashion consumption spared no effort in the passionate pursuit of wind to clearly feel the "IN" - "fashion", in the minds of young people is how rich in beauty.

Then there is a word "dazzle", this word appeared later than "cool" and "IN", it is with the rise of cell phones and the birth of a popular word, the initial meaning is used to describe the colorful screen phone colorful, gorgeous. However, as the word continues to spread, its meaning has undergone profound changes. We can now often hear from the mouth of teenagers such words: "show your confidence, show your style", "show their personality, you are the most dazzling one". In these words, the meaning of "dazzle" is not the same as "colorful, brilliant", so what is the meaning of "dazzle" in the end?

In "show your self-confidence, show your style", "show" is interpreted as "show, flaunt" is more appropriate; in "show your personality, you are the most one", "show" is interpreted as "striking" is more appropriate. However, whether it is "show, publicize" or "striking", they all express the youth of such an aesthetic concept; to express themselves, publicize themselves, and attract the attention of others, is beautiful.

There is a great contrast between this aesthetic concept and the traditional one. In the Chinese traditional concept of beauty, gentle and generous, subtle and deep is beautiful; bold and bold, blunt and open is not beautiful, not only unattractive, but also may lead to disaster, the old adage that "the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind must be destroyed; heap out of the shore, the flow must be turbulent; line above the crowd, the crowd must be wrong" is the truth. Therefore, for thousands of years, Chinese people are very subtle, very modest, even if they have great ability, will not easily show, even if they do something well, but also to say "do not do a good job, please teach me more". In this respect, Western culture and our aesthetic concept are different. Westerners emphasize self-expression, even if a person does not have a lot of ability, he has to show all of his ability, even if something is not perfect, he will not be ashamed to proclaim that he has already achieved the results. Over the years, with the continuous expansion of China's foreign exchanges and cooperation, with the continuous development of the global integration of the economy, this Western aesthetic concept has profoundly affected today's Chinese society, especially profoundly affected today's Chinese young people. In the minds of contemporary Chinese teenagers, to say that a person is open and exposed with a view to attracting attention is no longer a disparagement of a person, but rather shows a person's boldness, a person's self-confidence." The fact that "flashy" is appreciated by teenagers is directly related to this change in aesthetic mentality. So we see, in the 2004 Olympic Games, 44-year-old Wang Yifu won the championship after just pinching the fist and waved his hand, calmly walked off the field; and 21-year-old Liu Xiang is open arms full of crazy running, hate to embrace the world. When interviewed by reporters, Wang Yifu said he was grateful to the motherland for the leadership training, while Liu Xiang said, "I wanted to show myself a long time ago". Behind the words of different celebratory postures, the young people of today and their predecessors showed a huge difference in the concept of sentencing.

It is because of the "show" out of their own, so now the youth not only dare to run for the class cadres, to run for the "school flower", "school grass", but also in the employer's examiner in front of the eloquent, counting their own merits and achievements. In their opinion, this is an era that calls for publicity, and this is an era that requires publicity. Subtle euphemism may also be a kind of beauty, but they are more appreciated is the self-confidence, the beauty of the publicity!