
Hippie also spelled 'hippy' is a
member of a counterculture group that began in
the United States during the Vietnam
War, just
after the British
Invasion
in 1960s. Hippie, Flower
Child or
contemporary Hipster are synonyms for a Hippy. Hippies are people whose
behavior, dress, worldviews, use of psychedelic
drugs, tastes in art, music etc. imply a
rejection of conventional Upper
Middle Class values. Origins of Hippies are in
European Bohemians, American 1940s Hipsters and 1950s Beats. Read
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