What is the difference between subculture and counterculture?

Culture encompasses the ideas, values, norms, practuces and obects that allow a group of people, or even an entire society, to carry out their collective lives with a minimum of friction. We are immersed in a diversity of cultures and subcultures and countercultures are active parts of them. Subcultures include people who may accept much of the dominant culture but are set apart from it by one or more culturally significant characteristics. Some examples of subcultures are LGBT, bodybuilders, nudists, hip hop, grunge. On the other hand, countercultures are groups of people who differ in certain ways from the dominant culture and whose norms and values may be incompatible with it. Some examples are: Englightenment, Suffragettes, Romanticism. 

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