Subculture Impact On Society

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ulture plays a very important role in continuing the values and norms of a society. It also offers lots of opportunities for people to be creative. These creative people become a cultural subgroup outside the core of the dominant culture and they are called a subculture. According to Wikipedia.com “People in a subculture have distinct sets of behavior and beliefs that differentiate them from a larger culture of which they are a part of.” They have distinctive styles of dress, activity and music. They are also differentiated from the rest of the society by their cultural patterns. Various popular subcultures can be found throughout the world. People around the world have also been able to adopt popular subcultures as their own, and at times, adding one’s own taste and points of view. Several subcultures flourished and are flourishing in America today because of the almost fundamental need for people to belong and when we think of some of the popular subcultures of America we think of Naturalists, Goths, Punks, Hip-Hop, Rave, Teen, Beats, Gays and Lesbians etc. However, one of the most famous and influential subculture that has impacted America in terms of beliefs, lifestyle, music, and art, has been the Hippies.

Hippies were a radical group that shocked America with their alternative lifestyle and beliefs in the 60 's. The hippie movement originally started in San Francisco, California and were mostly made up of young generation like the white middle-class Americans

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