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(Australia) A surfer (one who rides a surfboard), especially one involved in the surfing subculture..
Surfies present to the dominant culture their leisure myth in magnified form. Bikies appear to challenge the values of the dominant culture, something which they are able to do because they, in the first place, like the surfies, accept them. The surfie subculture in its full form was confined to those areas of the world where there is surf.
The first youth to reach their carriage, a lanky aboriginal boy of about sixteen shouted, “Hey, we′ve got some surfies here!” “We′re not surfies,” Terry replied quietly. It was no good. In the era of the early nineteen sixties one was either a “surfie” or a “bodgie.” Bodgies hated surfies with a passion and welcomed any excuse for a good stoush.
To the lifesavers the surfies appeared self-indulgently radical; to surfies the lifeguards seemed subservient and conformist to authority.
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Surfie means (Australia) A surfer (one who rides a surfboard), especially one involved in the surfing subculture..
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Surfies present to the dominant culture their leisure myth in magnified form. Bikies appear to challenge the values of the dominant culture, something which they are able to do because they, in the first place, like the surfies, accept them. The surfie subculture in its full form was confined to those areas of the world where there is surf.
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