Discuss “Alternative culture: hands-on and proud”

French existentialists, hippies, hip-hop emcees, graffiti artists, punks. Although these alternative cultures each represented a minority in their respective heydays, their effects on society are clear. Alternative cultures have taken on many different ideals, structures, and memberships over time and continue to leave marks on contemporary life.

Alternative cultures are so called because they provide alternatives to popular or mainstream culture. They form when a society isn’t able to provide for the needs and desires of all of its people. “In the late ’90s there was no consistent venue for punk-hardcore-indie shows,” said Mike “Q” Roth, one of the creators of the Mr. Roboto Project, an important part of alternative culture in...