Personal Interest Project: Subculture Analysis

The United States has many different cultures and smaller subcultures due to being a melting pot of different peoples of various nations, but with a predominant American culture characterized by clothing brands like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, with a certain type of clothing like cowboy hats, boots, jeans, etc, along with foods like burgers, fries, and hot dogs. Since America has other cultures due to immigration you may find some that Mexican cuisine Is a part of the Texas culture. Within the United States there are smaller subcultures like bodybuilders, bikers, and the BDSM culture. Bodybuilders are defined by weight lifting, while some of the lifters scream to achieve attention. These group of individuals take appreciation in building the human physique, and display of strength, taking pride in being different from conventional society. Bikers also known as the 1% ers, are a subculture with smaller subcultures within it. They are described as hard individuals who go to dangerous venues, and doing leisurely activates on weekends. The different subcultures of bikers are, manufactured riders, sport riders, reginal riders, and activists. BDSM is a taboo subculture

The environmental makeup of the colonies was crucial in the attraction of English subcultures to America and its specific regions. Farmers had no interest or need to go to rocky New England, so consequently they settled in the “bread colonies” of the Middle Atlantic, which were full of rich topsoil and plentiful access to waterways for irrigation and the inexpensive exchange and transportations of goods. Similarly, though Virginia’s soil was not ideal for grains it was exquisite for the production of Europe’s new addiction, tobacco. Tobacco, a cheap man’s crop, was easy money, for it was in high demand and not as expensive to produce as sugar, and thus was enticing for the second sons of England, whom were unable to inherit much of value from

Subculture is defined as an internal variation within a culture, in which a group of people share a more specific belief, value or practice, while still belonging to the larger culture. The Long Beach Roller Derby Girls are a good example of a Long Beach subculture. These are women from different socioeconomic backgrounds, age groups, and ethnicities coming together to engage in a full contact sport. According to their mission statement, they are “dedicated to providing an opportunity for all types of people to challenge and strengthen themselves,” while promoting “self-esteem…a sense of camaraderie and teamwork.” This sport is highly regarded as a feminist sport, mostly because it is women skating at high speeds and slamming each other

1. Working class subcultures- This is a range of culture created by the working class. The peasants invented it during the industrial revolution.

LINKS BETWEEN EARLY JAPANESE PILGRIMAGE AND MODERN JAPANESE TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 10, 2 (December 2008): 93-110.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what does righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with and unbeliever? (2 Corinthians 6:14-15, NIV) .

What is culture, how does it work? Have you ever wondered what culture is? and if you have one? My three topics of my cultural identity are food and drinks, appearance, and electronics.

I am going to Japan soon. I have been thinking about the things that I am going to see and how life could be different. The culture, food and the other activities that I would do. Everything is different there. Even school.

If, as 90% of people traveling to Tokyo, you are willing to get some souvenirs for your family, I highly recommend to go around Kiddy Land.

Statement: Cosplay’s popularity growth is fast and there are lot of questions in the mind of people about cosplay. It’s meaning and reason varies from person to person and there are negativities to it.

Like Charles Kettering said “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectations”. When traveling to a different country it's hard not to have high expectations. One of mine would be that I learn and understand some Japanese, and see what Japan has to offer. I would also love to feel what it's like to live how the people do, and understand

This paper will be discussing the cosplay, or costume play, subculture. In this paper, it will also go over who makes up this particular subculture, what it takes to be a cosplayer, what this subculture does for society, how society sees those who participate in it, how and when it came to be, most famous cosplay costumes, and what this subculture provides for those who take part in it.

Cosplay, short for “costume play”, is a performance art in which people called “cosplayers” wear costumes and specific accessories and props to represent or portray a specific fictional character. It is a unique Japanese form of art which, playing upon the identificatory fantasy, it enables the western participants to assume identities and to differentiate themselves in ways which western culture cannot. The average cosplayer is not just putting on a costume; the experience is one of rebirth, an identity transformation. Daniel’s (2010) paper determines whether cosplay is a demonstration of cultural imperialism of cultural hybridity. Lotecki (2012) and Hale’s (2014) paper examines the creative, emotional, social, and behavioural processes in which cosplayers participate while interpreting and constructing their characters, including the differentiation between fiction and reality, and

In his introductory essay to The Subcultural Reader, editor Ken Gelder describes subcultures as “always seen in terms of their relationship to, and function within, the broader social system.” That is to say there can be no subcultures without a dominant culture to reject or be excluded from. However, while subculture entails a choice, the non-inclusion into dominant culture is not always so. In dressing, speaking, or creating and consuming art, an individual can be represented by others as apart from mainstream culture and/or categorized as part of a specific, named subculture. An easy-to-understand example of this is that of a person who, for whatever reason chooses to wear all-black clothing receiving the label “goth” from

I haven’t yet had the experience of belonging to any subculture. So, I think the subcultural groups are the ones that people think identify their personalities, also subculture is the way to seeing things that depends to belonging. Belonging to a subculture is associated with all kinds of people, ages and social classes in which there are preferences in common.