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SUBCULTURE

                                               May  01, 2006
                                   Additions:  June 14, 2006


  The term "subculture" seems to imply
  a hierarchy, a splinter group contained
  within a larger, primary group that
  deserves the name "culture" without
  any qualifying prefix.


  Isn't it likely that
  subcultures overlap?                And indeed, don't
                                      cultures in general
     An Asian Buddhist and an         overlap?
     American WASP may both
     be science fiction fans.              A family of Germans
                                           raised in Moscow:
                                           what is their culture?

                                                 Does each individual
                                                 have a culture of
                                                 their own?

                                           Instead we think of
                                           cultures as being
                                           primary, atomistic --
                                           so the German family in
   Unlike the phylogeny of species,        Moscow is an odd case:
   cultural categories can and do          a group of individuals
   mate with each other...                 with a foot in two cultures.

   And acquired characteristics                Or with two
   are definitely transmitted.                 cultures
                                               inside of
                                               them?



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