*Taken from www.whatisajuggalo.com

Juggalo culture is as misunderstood as it is lacking in academia. “Juggaloism” is a movement that has been thriving all over the world for the past 10 years as both a music subculture and as a spiritual philosophy, known as the Dark Carnival. Juggalo’s are basically outcasts from all walks of life who were brought together and united by the group Insane Clown Posse, and created a world amongst themselves free of hate, prejudice, racism, sexism, and celebrated the differences that drive many in mainstream America apart from each other. Culturally diverse people who embrace this movement see others for who they are instead of what clothes they wear, their social class, etc., and love each other as much as or even more so than normal people love their immediate families. Juggalo’s are people who have shared similar experiences of being picked last for a sports team in high school, who have had abusive parents, who have not been blessed with the necessary support to grow and prosper in life, who have not had others to turn to, and who have been shunned by the macrocosm of society for simply being who they are. With the expansion of this culture over the past 10 years, you can find Juggalo’s everywhere. For every religion and music culture: punk, hip-hop, rave, etc., you can find Juggalo’s, who share an amalgamated belief system that is not written in stone, but embedded in the heart and conscience of every true believer of this movement. On a cosmic place, the Dark Carnival is a spiritual philosophy quite similar to Eastern theologies that involves living one’s life in a way that treats every person equal, regardless of the color of their skin, their gender, their religion, their sexual preference, and every other “distinction” that often separates humanity. Experiencing the world through the vantage point of a cultural relativist is a major concept in the values that all Juggalo’s share towards themselves and towards the rest of society, even the society that has systematically oppressed them in various ways for refusing to conform to the mainstream.****