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- noun A
culture set up in opposition to another culture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This has become the shrieking refrain of 21st-century film anticulture – the idea that critics are just too clever for their own good, have seen too many movies to know what the average punter wants, and are therefore sorely unqualified to pass judgment on the popcorn fodder that "real" cinema-goers demand from the movies.
Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011
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What is sad is the negative effects of the spread of U.S. culture (or, more accurately, anticulture) in Mexico and globally.
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It is not time for us to walk out on an exhausted fascination with self-loathing and animality; not time for us to turn our backs upon the anticulture.
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