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===Alternative forms===
===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|counter-culture}}
* {{alter|en|counter-culture|counter culture}}
* {{alter|en|counter culture}}


===Etymology===
===Etymology===
From {{prefix|en|counter|culture}}.
From {{af|en|counter-|culture}}.


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{en-noun}}
{{en-noun|~}}


# Any [[culture]] whose [[value]]s and [[lifestyle]]s are opposed to those of the [[established]] [[mainstream]] [[culture]], especially to [[western]] culture.
# Any [[culture]] whose [[value]]s and [[lifestyle]]s are opposed to those of the [[established]] [[mainstream]] [[culture]], especially to [[Western]] culture.
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 16, 1971|journal=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|titleurl=https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/aug-16-1971-a-record-turnout-for-the-who-at-mississippi-river-festival/article_d5d236e8-4277-5321-b045-80ad9207d95c.html|title=A record turnout for The Who at Mississippi River Festival|author=W. Thomas Stewart|passage=The concert was a cultural happening for members of the '''counterculture''' in the St. Louis area.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 16, 1971|journal=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|titleurl=https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/aug-16-1971-a-record-turnout-for-the-who-at-mississippi-river-festival/article_d5d236e8-4277-5321-b045-80ad9207d95c.html|title=A record turnout for The Who at Mississippi River Festival|author=W. Thomas Stewart|passage=The concert was a cultural happening for members of the '''counterculture''' in the St. Louis area.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1994
|author=w:Richard Nixon
|chapter=America Beyond Peace
|title=Beyond Peace
|url=https://archive.org/details/beyondpeace00nixo/
|location=[[New York]]
|publisher=w:Random House
|ISBN=0-679-43323-6
|LCCN=94-10184
|OCLC=30071886
|page=235
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/beyondpeace00nixo/page/235/
|text=The sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the American family: increasing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, and single-parent families. The glorification of recreational drug use, from which the wealthy and middle class have only recently begun to recoil, has contributed to the emergence of a permanent urban underclass. The self-indulgent notions of no-fault living, the cult of victimization, the futility of work, and the inherent injustice of American society, which the '''counterculture''' promoted, have corroded the respect for merit and personal striving, which are the human virtues surest to help individuals grow, develop moral codes, and achieve success.}}
#* {{quote-book
#* {{quote-book
|en
|en
|year=1997
|year=1997
|author=Thomas Carr Frank
|author=[[w:Thomas Frank|Thomas Carr Frank]]
|authorlink=Thomas Frank
|title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
|title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/259919.html
|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/259919.html
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|isbn=0-226-25991-9
|isbn=0-226-25991-9
|passage=The '''counterculture''' has long since outlived the enthusiasm of its original participants and become a more or less permanent part of the American scene, a symbolic and musical language for the endless cycles of rebellion and transgression that make up so much of our mass culture.}}
|passage=The '''counterculture''' has long since outlived the enthusiasm of its original participants and become a more or less permanent part of the American scene, a symbolic and musical language for the endless cycles of rebellion and transgression that make up so much of our mass culture.}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|countercultural|counterculturish|counterculturism|counterculturist
}}


====Translations====
====Translations====
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* Danish: {{t|da|modkultur|c}}
* Danish: {{t|da|modkultur|c}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|tegencultuur|f}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|tegencultuur|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kontraŭkulturo}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kontraŭkulturo}}, {{t|eo|franĝa kulturo}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|vastandkultuur}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|vastandkultuur}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vastakulttuuri}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vastakulttuuri}}
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* Kazakh: {{t|kk|контрмәдениет}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|контрмәдениет}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|반문화}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|반문화}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|контрмаданият}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|контрмаданият}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|kontrkultūra|f}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|kontrkultūra|f}}
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* Macedonian: {{t|mk|контракултура|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|контракултура|f}}
* Malayalam: {{t|ml|പ്രതിസംസ്കാരം}}
* Malayalam: {{t|ml|പ്രതിസംസ്കാരം}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|ahurea ātete}}
* Norwegian:
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|motkultur|m}}
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|motkultur|m}}
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* Persian: {{t+|fa|پادفرهنگ|tr=pâdfarhang}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|پادفرهنگ|tr=pâdfarhang}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|kontrkultura|f}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|kontrkultura|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|contracultura|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|contracultura|f}}
* Punjabi: {{t|pa|ਕਾਉਂਟਰਕਲਚਰ}}
* Punjabi: {{t|pa|ਕਾਉਂਟਰਕਲਚਰ}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|contracultură|f}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|contracultură|f}}

Latest revision as of 04:55, 16 September 2024

See also: counter culture

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From counter- +‎ culture.

Noun

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counterculture (countable and uncountable, plural countercultures)

  1. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
    • 1971 August 16, W. Thomas Stewart, “A record turnout for The Who at Mississippi River Festival”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
      The concert was a cultural happening for members of the counterculture in the St. Louis area.
    • 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
      The sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the American family: increasing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, and single-parent families. The glorification of recreational drug use, from which the wealthy and middle class have only recently begun to recoil, has contributed to the emergence of a permanent urban underclass. The self-indulgent notions of no-fault living, the cult of victimization, the futility of work, and the inherent injustice of American society, which the counterculture promoted, have corroded the respect for merit and personal striving, which are the human virtues surest to help individuals grow, develop moral codes, and achieve success.
    • 1997, Thomas Carr Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism[2], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
      The counterculture has long since outlived the enthusiasm of its original participants and become a more or less permanent part of the American scene, a symbolic and musical language for the endless cycles of rebellion and transgression that make up so much of our mass culture.

Derived terms

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