What are hippies?

Hippie (a phonetic translation of the English word Hippie) was originally used to describe young people in Western countries who rebelled against the customs and politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The name hippie was popularized by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Herb Kane. The name hippie was popularized through San Francisco Chronicle reporter Herb Caen. The hippies were not a unified cultural movement; they did not have a manifesto or a leading figure. The hippies reacted to their opposition to nationalism and the Vietnam War with a communal and vagabond lifestyle, advocated a non-traditional religious culture, and criticized the values of the middle classes in Western countries.

They criticized government restrictions on the rights of citizens, the greed of large corporations, the narrowness of traditional morality and the inhumanity of war. They call the institutions and organizations they oppose "the establishment.

Hippies were later used pejoratively to describe long-haired, dirty drug addicts. Until recently conservatives used the term hippie as an insult to young liberals.

The hippies of the time wanted to change their hearts (through drug use, mystical practices, or a mixture of both) and get out of the mainstream of society. Far Eastern metaphysical and religious practices and the totemic beliefs of the native tribes had a strong influence on the hippies. These influences evolved into the New Age movement in the occult in the 1970s.

Sources

The Beat Generation in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s referred to jazz musicians as "hipsters" and "beatniks," and the terms were also used to refer to the artists around whom bohemianism emerged. artists, while the terms were also used to refer to the bohemian counterculture that emerged around them.

In the 1960s, hippies evolved from the Beat Generation and rock 'n' roll from jazz.

Young counterculturists in Greenwich Village on the East Coast called themselves "hips". Many disillusioned young people from the New York metropolitan area gathered in that village, wearing their oldest clothes. The first media outlet to use the word hippie to describe these middle-class kids in their old clothes was a radio station.

A San Francisco newspaper on Sept. 6, 1965, used first used the word hippie to describe these young bohemians, but other media outlets hardly used the word for the next two years.

The hippies in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco were centered around a group called the Diggers. This street theater group combined improvisational street theater, anarchist activism, and artistic performance with the goal of creating a "free city". They were influenced by two different movements: on the one hand by bohemian, underground art and theater groups, and on the other by leftist, civilist, peace movements. There was also a very active hippie community in Los Angeles, California, where in the summer of 1967 many young people (police estimated seventy-five thousand) gathered at the Haight-Ashbury to share the music, drugs, and defiance of their new culture.

The hippie movement reached its climax in the late 1960s, and on July 7, 1976, Time magazine featured the hippie movement as its cover story: "The Hippies: A Philosophy of a Subculture"

Because many of the hippies wore flowers in their hair or parted them with flowers to passers-by, they were also nicknamed the "Flower People. "nickname.

Politics

Hippies often participated in peace movements, including marches against the Vietnam War and for human rights. The Youth International Party was a particularly politically active subgroup of hippies.

From the point of view of 2005, hippies were quite sexist, but in practice hippies quickly embraced feminist and egalitarian principles.

In the beginning hippies were not very tolerant of homosexuality, but as the movement grew they became more and more accepting of it.

The hippies also expressed their political aspirations and the changes they sought by "falling out" of society. Going back to the countryside, cooperative enterprise, alternative energy, the freedom of the press movement, and organic farming were all favored at the beginning of the hippie movement.

Drugs

Many people believe that the extent of hippie drug abuse was exaggerated by those who supported the Vietnam War. They used this excuse to counter the hippies' case against the Vietnam War. But it is true that many hippies actually used drugs. They especially wanted to use the hallucinations produced by drugs to achieve inner cultivation. This was especially true of marijuana and other hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and nudibranchin. Although there were many hippies who did not use drugs, drugs were often seen as a symbol of hippies and a reason why they did not conform to social norms.

Drug use is still seen as a central part of hippie culture.

Many people think that hippies didn't smoke because they thought it was harmful, but photographs from the time show many hippies smoking.

Legacy

In 1970 many hippie life forms entered mainstream culture, but the substance underneath was seldom absorbed by mainstream culture. The media gradually lost interest in the subculture and young people lost their sense of hipness to it. With the emergence of punk rock hippies even became an anathema to young people. But there were many hippies who maintained their lifestyle, even in mainstream culture. Until 2005 there were still hippie communities all over the world, some of them wandering with their favorite bands. Rainbow gatherings that began to appear in the early 1970's to pray for peace are still maintained today, and other gatherings and music festivals are dedicated to life or love.

Features

Long hair, big beards. Many people find long hair offensive because it represents untidiness or femininity.

Brightly colored or unusual clothing.

Listening to certain music, such as the hallucinatory rock and roll of Jamie Hendrix and the Jefferson Airship, the blues of Janis Joplin, the music of Sly and the Stone Family, the ZZ Toppers, and the Dead Folk.

Occasionally play music on my own, usually guitar, usually at home with friends, or on the comm****y green or at festivals. Free love, communal living

Drugs

Neo-hippies

Neo-hippies is the name given to 21st-century hippies who have revived some of the ideas of the 1960s hippie movement, such as the fact that they also emphasized freedom to wear what they wanted to wear, and do what they wanted to do. Unlike the hippies of the 1960s the neo-hippies were generally apolitical, whereas the hippies of the 1960s were actually a political movement.

Pejorative usage

Conservative mainstreamers use the term hippie to refer to people who use drugs, especially marijuana, as well as people who are unwilling to participate in social activities, lack a sense of social obligation, and lack a sense of hygiene. People in the punk rock subculture, on the other hand, use the term hippie to refer to stereotypical, boring, or obnoxious people.