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Pro-Ana Subculture

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Pro-Ana: A Subculture That is a Counterculture Pro-Ana is a subculture that focuses on promoting anorexia and bulimia, or “mia”, as good lifestyle choices. According to Yong Che Jeong’s slideshow (2012), participants include, “over 85 different discussion groups; over 11 million females and one million males in US” (slide 2). I’m sure those numbers have risen in the past five years due to advancing technologies and rising bullying and self-doubting. This can easily be identified as a subculture because everyone knows what an anorexic person can look like; “anorexia” has become a household word. These people go online to “non-judgmental support groups” to discuss their weight loss goals and how they will achieve them, and they all basically
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