Topic > Hippie Culture in America - 1135

"I wish we were all hippies and did yoga and lived in cottages and smoked weed and accepted everyone for who they are and lost ourselves to beautiful music. And I wish the money didn't make us what we are, I just wish we could remake society" (Marley, 1968). According to Hippie Culture, (2010) “Being a hippie” originally began as a subculture, a youth movement, which began in the United States of America around the 1960s, began as a pacifist movement against wars and bad government. Stated by Hippies, (2009) Is being a hippie a culture? It's more than a culture. You are engaging thoughts. People say it's just a style or a way of wearing clothes, but they don't know what a hippie has in mind. They focus more on life enjoying it because it is very short. Said by the Hippies, (nd), They create a special bond with nature and strictly respect it. They live more naturally because they get everything from nature and are against artificial things. It's about beliefs and living life in the best way trying to have only one goal, to be happy. Believing and living life to the fullest was the goal. Some of the main philosophical ideas of the hippies of the 1960s are that they preferred a free, non-conformist and unconventional lifestyle, eliminating material needs, showing a marked disgust towards Western materialistic culture. According to Hippie Culture, (2005), they mainly pursued community life, pacifism and free love. They were "pro-nuclear dearmament", which is where the slogan "love and peace" came from, and they also defended ecology. Through meditation or the use of drugs or hallucinogens, a state of alternative spirituality or higher consciousness was achieved. ... middle of the paper ... and the celebration of cultural and ethnic diversity have gained wide acceptance even from the majority society. Their values ​​of sexual freedom (free love) and its search for alternative forms of spirituality also have expansion and acceptance. CONCLUSION Many times in life we ​​judge people, ideologies or groups of people we don't even know, we simply have the first intention and use it to criticize. But it is criticism that runs out of ground the moment we enter the study of ideology, or the reasons why a person or group of them acts in a certain way. In conclusion, it could be said that hippies are still a kind of popular tribe to this day since there are still people who admire these people, there are also people who are currently hippies, so it is probably very influential not only for its ideology but also for his way of being