Spotting subcultures is really hard when you're not used to the mainstream. And then there are sub-sub-cultures... As an example even from here - or more precisely, from the UK - it is/was (probably was) very, very hard to tell punks and skins apart at a glance. Both were grubby, had lots of piercings, shaved heads, anarchy symbols, tattoos, chains... yet one group were neo-Nazis and the others "just punks", polar opposites.
I've been doing some research on India in advance of our trip there next year, and I know there are 60-odd different cultures crammed in there, and damned if I can tell any of them apart from the rest.
As to the composer of theme tune, and tracking things, yes, I wish that could be done. Concepts and themes would form bizarrely shaped threads through time and space, attached to vector-people who're hobbyists, or just suffering from earworms, and then explode out into unravelling strands when someone finds an old recording and MP3s it, or works Sooty and Sweep into a poster design.
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Date: 2005-10-24 01:05 pm (UTC)I've been doing some research on India in advance of our trip there next year, and I know there are 60-odd different cultures crammed in there, and damned if I can tell any of them apart from the rest.
As to the composer of theme tune, and tracking things, yes, I wish that could be done. Concepts and themes would form bizarrely shaped threads through time and space, attached to vector-people who're hobbyists, or just suffering from earworms, and then explode out into unravelling strands when someone finds an old recording and MP3s it, or works Sooty and Sweep into a poster design.