What is the relationship between a culture and subculture?

Answer 1

bin a larger sense cultures can be like The American Culture for instance, the sense of national identity, ethics, personality, fashion, etc that make us identifiable as Americans. subcultures are small subsets within the culture that are cultures in themselves, such as the geek subculture, or the goth sub culture which are rich, full cultures in themselves, but are also smaller parts of a larger culture.

subcultures form the expantion of a particular culture, that if a subculture possesses the sreght or power to detach itself from its mother culture to being a whole but reflects traits noticable from the main culture. eg; the origin of the Nigerian ethnic cultures