Chase has defended his show, saying that it is not meant to stereotype all Italian Americans, only to depict a small criminal subculture.

Radio was the first almost instantaneous mass media with the power to create large subcultures by spreading the ideas of small subcultures across a wide area.

Running on the older infrastructure of the Internet, the web allowed small subcultures to grow into large global online communities.

In June, before the Olympic trials, Masback identified the problem as a "small subculture" of cheaters.

Kawaii has gradually gone from a small subculture in Japan to an important part of Japanese modern culture as a whole.

Major League Soccer is a small subculture of many cultures.

It seems ludicrous now, but in those cynical, angry and weirdly romantic times, among a small but influential political subculture such acts seemed logical.

Hip-hop soon became a small but eager subculture and it expanded from breakdance and graffiti culture to also rap music.