What's your favorite american subculture?

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Please comment as well!!

Especially if you are not from the US, please(!!) make a comment about which one you chose and why!!

Thanx!!

Social Elite 5
Southern Belle 4
Redneck/Good ol' Boys/Mountain Folks 5
Ghetto/Hip Hop 6
Hippie/Liberal/Artist/Musician 24
City Slicker 1
Trailer Trash 2
Biker 3
LGBT 7
Nudist 8
Jock/Sports Enthusiast/Fitness and Bodybuilding 2
Homeless/Hobo/Vagrant/Transient 3
Drugs/Addicts 0
Blue Collar/Working Man 3
White Collar/Business 5
Wealthy 7
Mafia/Organized Crime 5
Prison/Jail/Convicts 0
Cowboy/Rancher 3
Farmers 3
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  • howaminotmyself
    13 years ago

    I like the hippie/liberal/artist/musician culture as well. And I'm sure they all play well together, but could easily have their own category. I mean, you gave farmers and ranchers their own separate category. And how did nudists get pulled out of the hippie/liberal category. Where do you live? And where are the hipsters, students, cyclists, and urban cowboys?

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    • dappled
      13 years ago

      I'm with howaminotmyself on this. I understand you perhaps think that creative types are more likely to be liberal. Maybe it's so, I honestly don't have any answers on that. But I do think creativity is independent of political thought.

      Either way, it's a really tiny point and neither of us are picking on you. Although, it is funny about the nudists because I thought the same thing.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      13 years ago

      To address your questions: Farmers don't ranch and ranchers don't farm. Nudism is an extreme, and I feel warrants it's own category. The hippie category, it's overall accurate that at least 2 or more of the descriptions would apply to the type of person that would choose that category, whereas if I seperated them, I felt people MIGHT very well have a hard time choosing whether they should pick "artist" or "liberal" (for example). Student is not a subculture, as it is a temporary situation. Now a perpetual student, perhaps....(those people who are in their 30's and are still in college for no real reason), however that category would be so small it's not warranted. Hipsters, cyclists and urban cowboys are very small categories. I didn't want to get down too specific. Too many choices would not a better poll make. If anyone has trouble choosing, then don't choose one and leave a comment instead.

      My personal category is Redneck, I live in the country, but for some reason I can't vote on this poll!

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      • disthing
        12 years ago

        I don't understand why "favorite"? I get that you think virtually everybody falls under one of these categories, but why would anyone choose addicts, convicts or trailer trash as their favorite American subculture unless they were kidding?

        I'm not sure I really see how insightful this poll can possibly be.

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    I'm English and I voted for Hippie/Liberal/Artist/Musician.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      13 years ago

      What's a British hippie called? Not making fun, I'd really like to know!! Thanks for your input, btw.

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      • disthing
        12 years ago

        We don't usually use the word 'Liberal' though, not in the way American's do.

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      • disthing
        12 years ago

        We don't have a separate word really. Hippy is a bit outdated now though, most people I know (18-25 year olds) would probably call them stoners instead. But we say hippy too.

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    • Karenin
      13 years ago

      go way english. youre views are not welcome here. this is for americans only.

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  • UliNalaMansae
    12 years ago

    NUDISTS YEAAHH!!!

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    These are pretty silly but they do give me some new ideas to use in the bedroom...

    The convict enters the bedroom of the farmer's wife...yummy!

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  • Enizzle
    13 years ago

    My sub-culture is more along the lines of black leather clad fetishistic men in their mid-30s that frequent Porno theatres and pick up prostitutes down by the docks.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Why must a person subscribe to some pre-packaged set of ideas? To Hell with sub-cultures. Nay, to Hell with culture in general. My definition of the word "culture" is: What occurs when people are too afraid to have their own values, goals, interests, and artistic tastes and thus merely imitate their peers. I am uncultured and proud.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      13 years ago

      Well, a subculture is kind of like saying that you don't belong to the larger, most popular ideal. I don't know of anyone who doesn't fit into any defined subculture, whether they want to or not.

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        That is rubbish. When you see a bunch of teenagers walking down the street all dressed in the same black band t-shirts with chains laced to their pants and their hair dyed unnatural colors, that is not a coincidence, they are conforming to their subculture on purpose.

        I am immune to culture.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          13 years ago

          They're children, they don't count. They don't even know who they are.

          I'm sure you fit in with somebody.

          There's posers everywhere, I understand what you're saying. But in the end, everyone has a place, whether you like it or not.

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          • [Old Memory]
            13 years ago

            Then my sub-culture has one member: me.

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