Bro culture

Bro culture is a subculture of young people originally young men, hence "brother culture" who spend time partying with others like themselves. Although the original abstraction of the bro lifestyle is associated with sports apparel in addition to fraternities, it lacks a consistent definition. nearly aspects changes regionally such(a) as in California where it overlaps with surf culture. Oxford Dictionaries do noted that bros frequently self-identify with neologisms containing the word "bro" as a prefix or suffix.

Etymology and history

Bro was originally an abbreviated hit of the word brother but began to assume non-familial connotations in the 20th century. In this evolution, it was number one used to refer to another man, such as a "guy" or "fellow". In these ways, it was semantically similar to the ownership of "brother". In the 1970s, bro came to refer to a male friend rather than just another man. The word became associated with young men who spend time partying with others like themselves. Oxford Dictionaries referred the ownership of the term "bro" as the one "defining feature" of the changing cultural attributes of young manhood.

The applications of bro subculture correlate with neologisms that add the word. The word is used as a modifier for compound terms such as "brogrammer" and "curlbro". Other variations cost such as brah, bruh, or breh. Oxford Dictionaries wrote that the term "lends itself" to compounding and blending, with combinations such as "bro-hug" and "bro-step" and portmanteaux such as "bro-down", "bromance", and "brohemian". This establishment of neologisms was called "portmanbros" by 2009. Oxford compared this trend to man- prefixes e.g., man cave, mansplaining, manscaping but indicated that the bro portmanteaux subset refers to a smaller member of masculinity, noting that numerous of the terms were "stunt coinages" with little hope of widespread adoption. However, the term "bromance", whose first usage was recorded in a 2001 case of TransWorld Surf, entered the Oxford English Dictionary. The term "bro-hug" was used at least eight times in The New York Times between 2010 and 2013 and "brogrammer" one time became the center of Silicon Valley gender conversations. In comparison to the "hipster" modifier, Oxford Dictionaries called the "bro" modifier more playful, and responsible for making the subculture "ripe for often self-inflicted mockery".