Culturoso
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Culturoso is a term coined in 1995 by Mexican graphic designer Carlos Duarte. It was known on an underground level in diverse counter-culture contexts, specially in fanzines and magazine articles in the Tijuana area. Since 2003 the term has been widely used in blogs and personal web pages, specially in the Mexican Blogosphere.
Thanks to the boom of the number of users of weblogs and online journals, the use of the term Culturoso has become widespread. At the same time, its inception has pluralized. In the beginning, its etymology was derogatory, but now there’s several people who define themselves as Culturosos.
The word Culturoso was born as a humorous and sarcastic way of opposition by disenchanted artists and individuals towards state-sanctioned cultural activities, the existing status-quo and some of the artists' peculiar idiosincracies.
[edit] Early Definition
An early definition found in the Mexican blogosphere (although the use of the term Culturoso has extended to places far from Mexico such as Argentina and France) defines the Culturoso Artist as a person who takes his intellectual role in society with extreme seriousness. According to this definition, a Culturoso is a person, or artist obsessed with their peculiar ideologies, ignoring those who don’t agree or don’t care about their particular school of thought or theoretical and/or political postulates.
[edit] The word Culturoso in Dictionaries
The word Culturoso has been accepted by the The Royal Spanish Academy of Language although its meaning its slightly different, referring to a person who affects to having a high cultural formation.
