Hippies

Hippie, also spelled hippy, were, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that dropdown life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to dropdown The name derived from “hip,” dropdown Beats of the 1950s, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who were generally considered to be the precursors of hippies. Although the movement arose in part as opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1955–75), hippies dropdown known as “Yippies” (Youth International Party). Hippies felt alienated from middle-class society, which they saw as dropdown and they developed their own distinctive lifestyle. They favoured long hair and casual, often unconventional, dress, sometimes in “psychedelic” colours. dropdown Long flowing granny dresses were popular with women, and dropdown Hippies commonly took up communal or cooperative living arrangements, and they often adopted vegetarian diets based on unprocessed foods and dropdown For many The Whole Earth Catalog, which first appeared in 1968, became a source for the necessities of life. Hippies tended to be dropouts from society, forgoing regular jobs and careers, although dropdown Hippies advocated nonviolence and love, a popular phrase being dropdown for which they were sometimes called “flower children.” dropdown as alternatives to the restrictions and regimentation dropdown