counterstream

noun

coun·ter·stream ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌstrēm

variants or counter-stream

plural counterstreams or counter-streams

: a stream which runs counter to another

… those concealed rocks which I found when I was out in my boat; and which rocks, as they checked the violence of the stream, and made a kind of counter-stream, or eddy …—

Daniel Defoe

… there has been a counterstream of migrants returning from Britain and North America to many parts of the Caribbean …—

George Gmelch

: something (such as a political, cultural, or religious system) that is different from or opposed to the mainstream

… a convincing argument that the Appalachian religion is an authentic counterstream to modern, mainstream Protestantism.—

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

But there is a critical difference between counterstream and mainstream cultures. The counterstream cultures lived in harmony with their environment, because they either had to or they chose to.—

Majda Bastic