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ID number:425824
 
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Published: 13.05.2010.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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It is generally held that sub-culture is the culture of those who are dissatisfied with their place in society. On the whole Teds, Mods, Rockers, Bikers, Skinheads and Punks are the sub- cultures of the politically or economically weak segments of the society.
Rastafairians were Afro-Caribbean immigrants in Britain. They dreamed of golden age in Africa before the slave traders came. They viewed Britain as part of the Biblical 'Babylon', the land of slavery, and Africa especially Ethiopia as the 'Promised Land'. These Rastafairians began to wear distinctive clothes, cam- ouflage jackets, and large hats in the red, gold and green colours of Ethiopia and put their long, uncut hair in 'dreadlocks'. They took to speaking in a special 'patois' or dialect. Rastafairians were defiant until they became a recognised and legitimate minority group in Great Britain at the end of the 1980s.
Black music which came to Britain through the Rastafairians made its impact on urban sub-cultures.…

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