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Yes, they have a strong, thriving culture. Technically, anthropologists would say we have sub-cultures within larger cultures all over the world.
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
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People within a culture can be organized into smaller groups based on factors such as family ties, social class, age, gender, occupation, religion, or shared interests. These smaller groups may have specific roles, responsibilities, and social norms that help maintain cohesion within the larger cultural context.
A sub dominant culture refers to a culture within a society that does not hold as much power, influence, or representation as the dominant culture. It may have unique practices, beliefs, or traditions that differ from those of the dominant culture. Sub dominant cultures often experience marginalization or discrimination within the larger societal context.
Cultures evolve within groups of people based on many elements of those people's lives, such as family duties and responsibilities, community needs, physical location, and belief systems of the group. You yourself have your own culture based on your place within the larger group within which you live. You may not recognize it as a culture if you've never lived among another group of people or in another place. When people come into your culture from another culture, that's when you notice that there is a difference. Cultures show where they are from and hold that in their Heritage.
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Within one society, there can be many cultures :)
On a national level, in Germany for example, there is 'small german' and 'big german'. Read this in a book focusing on a time period of about 1870. On an ethnic level, i.e. in Kenya, there exists a Kikuyu clan. In this Kikuyu clan there are various smaller cultures and a general culture that the other tribes of the same clan can adhere to as their ancestors lived by the 'big' culture. One shouldn't imply that the smaller cultures are necessarily less pure
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A subculture is the same thing as a counter-culture, they both mean that a group of people do not follow the status quo, that is pretty much it. **A subculture is NOT the same thing as a counterculture. Subculture: part of society that has different ways of thinking, acting, etc but all under and within the dominant culture; example: Catholicism Counterculture: societies trying to fight against the dominant culture; example: hippies
History helps define culture as those who live within a culture learn from historical events (hopefully).