Standing Up for Our Subcultural Identity

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Though Standing up as a member of subculture could strongly help to changing wrong stereotypes but also it could have larger effects on the society , standing up as a first person in the subculture could be scary and you couldn’t imagine what could be happen how is others reflection specially when it be one of the hidden subcultures, but when somebody rise as a member of subculture the other hidden member of that subculture to rose up sooner or later. So though maybe society first doesn’t show good reflection resist to the changes and even member of minority become ostracized from the society but by increasing of both non hidden members and awareness of the subculture sooner or later society hopefully will accept that subculture as part of it self , this acceptance could mean changing in laws, the way media show that subculture, increasing in number of information source for who want to know about that subculture and the way people think about that subculture and finally easier life for subculture members as an example we can refer to what is going on in USA according to L...

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