Snowboard Culture

Many of the sports that are popular right now have their own culture and most people are aware of these cultures.  However, snowboarding is different.  Snowboarding is a popular sport, but many people that don’t participate in it don’t know that it also has its own culture.  Some of the people that are aware of it as a culture have many misconceptions and stereotypes of snowboarders.  One of these stereotypes is that they are rebellious teenagers that are disrespectful to society.  This was partially true many years ago when snowboarding split from skiing and became it’s own culture.  Skateboarders and surfers brought many parts of their cultures to snowboarding because they were some of the first people to try it.  As a sport, snowboarding has changed and evolved over the years, which also means that the culture has also changed over the years.