AMERICA
Welcome to
Suburbia
THE BASICS
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Suburbia is defined by Urban Dictionary as:
- The residence of Jesus in Green Day's famously long song, "Jesus of Suburbia."
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A great place to raise a white, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon family with an older brother, a younger sister, a dog, and two happily married heterosexual parents.
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A terrible place to raise a family that does not fit the description in #2.
REBELLION & SUBURBIA
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Although suburbia is essentially the land of white picket fences and the upper-middle class, it is frequently the breeding ground for rebellious adolescents and young adults who feel trapped by the social norms and the mediocrity of the suburban lifestyle.
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The idea of wanting to escape suburbia is a common theme within American Idiot - there is more world out there to explore and experience, and the perfect bubble of suburbia acts as a hindrance to our three main protagonists.