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{{trans-top|any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture}}
{{trans-top|any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|contracultura|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|modkultur|c}}
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* Dutch: {{t|nl|tegencultuur|f}}
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* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kontraŭkulturo}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kontraŭkulturo}}
* French: {{t+|fr|contreculture|f}}
* French: {{t+|fr|contreculture|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|კონტრკულტურა}}
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* Georgian: {{t|ka|კონტრკულტურა}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ellenkultúra}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ellenkultúra}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|contracultura|f}}
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Revision as of 18:52, 21 November 2019

See also: counter culture

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From counter- +‎ culture.

Noun

counterculture (plural countercultures)

  1. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture.
    • 1997, Thomas Carr Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism[1], 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.

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