 This cultural symbol extended to several Western countries in the Americas, Western Europe, South Africa, and Australia.The trend even spread to some Eastern Bloc countries, such as the "Mánička" subculture of Czechoslovakia, which was met with discriminiation by the authorities, who saw it as unwanted Western influence.Specific long hairstyles such as dreadlocks have been part of counterculture movements seeking to define other alternative cultures and lifestyles since this time.