Investigacion Sobre La Cultura Hippie En Ingles

Hippies

Hippie is a person who adheres to a subculture with origins in the counterculture movement of the 1960s. The word hippie derives from hipster who used the English used to describe the previous subculture of the Beat Generation was based also important to the U.S. city of San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury district. This new subculture inherited the countercultural values ​​of theBeat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, participated in radical activism and used drugs such as marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens to expand consciousness.

In the late sixties hippies in the U.S. constituted a sort of youth fashion and then be out of date but subsequent generations of neohippies remain alive as a subculturemovement established in many ways and with new generations to this day. Small enclaves of original hippies likewise continue to follow this lifestyle, mostly in rural areas.

The "hippies" adopted a communal way of life based on love and peace, renounced nationalism and the Vietnam War, taking elements of religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and religions of American Indians. They disagreedwith the traditional values ​​of Middle America. They believed the government paternalism, militarism, multinational corporations and traditional social values ​​as part of a system that, in their eyes, had no legitimacy.

 

Philosophy of life

The hippies automarginaban of society, seeking ways to live together in peace and love were the most important values. This made them take a crash mostof the doctrines commonly accepted values ​​and customs. By itself the movement had no political or ideological character clearly defined, although their ideas and way of life had some similarities to some aspects of anarchism, for example, living in communes.

 

 

Origins

The word hippie derives from another word in English, hip, meaning “people of fashion”. That term is derived theEnglish word hipster (a "hipista", indicating to those who pretend to be hip, the Bohemians. In the U.S. before 1960, bohemians and hipsters usually wrapped with Black culture (eg Harry "The Hipster" Gibson and one of the most famous revolutionary Michael W. Larrea) and jazz. On September 6, 1965, in a San Francisco newspaper, the journalist Michael Fellon used the first hippie word to refer to thehippies and young bohemians (as opposed to the old bohemian called Beat Generation). But the big news still took almost two years to use the new word.

The hippie movement was at its peak in late 1960 when events like the Tet Offensive in Vietnam began to show that the war was not winning. In the 70's had contempt for Nixon for his anti-war trend, but then it is on your side most of the U.S.population.

 
Legacy

Around 1980, much of hippie style, but very little of the essence of the movement was absorbed by the majority culture. The mainstream press lost interest in this subculture. Meanwhile, many former hippies were integrated into the mainstream of thought and social and economic systems of those who had renounced.

However, other hippies continued to maintain a deepcommitment to this way of life and ideals. Like the hippies tended to avoid publicity after the Summer of Love and Woodstock, there arose a popular myth that the movement was gone, but in fact continued to exist in communities in various countries. The evolution of some hippie communes has led to today's Eco villages, also called "communes of 2000.Even today, many of these hippies gather at festivalsand gatherings to celebrate life and love, as in the Festival of Peace.

 

 

Style and behavior

The hippie icon is usually a man with hair and beard were significantly longer than what is considered "smart" at the time. Both sexes tended to let their hair long and wore it a few hippies Caucasian African style, imitating African Americans. Many people not associated with this long-haired...