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  • Essay / Hippie Culture in America - 1135

    "I wish we were all hippies and did yoga and lived in cabins and smoked weed and accepted everyone as they are and we lost to the sound of wonderful music And I wish money didn't make us who we are, I just wish we could remake society” (Marley, 1968 According to Hippie Culture (2010), “Being). hippie" was originally born from a subculture, a youth movement, which began in the United States of America around the 1960s, it began as a pacifist movement against wars and evil government. According to Hippies (2009), is being a hippie a culture? You evolve your thoughts People say it's just a style or a way of wearing fabric, but. they don't know what a hippie has in mind. They focus more on life, because it is very short. According to hippies (n.d.), they create a special bond with nature and strictly respect it. Their way of living is more natural because they get everything from nature and are against artificial things. It's about beliefs and living life in the best way possible while trying to have one goal, to be happy. Beliefs and living life to the fullest were they are the goal. Some of the main philosophical ideas of the hippies of the 60s are that they preferred a free, non-conformist and unconventional lifestyle, suppressing material needs, showing a marked disgust towards Western materialist culture. According to Hippie Culture (2005), they primarily pursued community living, pacifism, and free love. They were “pro-nuclear disarmament”, from which the slogan “love and peace” was born and also defended ecology. Through meditation or the use of drugs or hallucinogens, they have achieved a state of alternative spirituality or higher consciousness. ...... middle of paper ......e and the celebration of cultural and ethnic diversity have been widely accepted, even by majority society. Their values ​​of sexual freedom (free love) and their quest for alternative forms of spirituality have also seen expansion and acceptance. CONCLUSION Many times in life we ​​judge people, ideologies or groups of people that we don't even know, we simply end up with the first intention and use it to criticize. But it is a criticism that lacks merit as we move into the study of ideology, or the reasons why this person or group of them acts in a certain way. In conclusion, we could say that hippies are still a popular tribe until today because there are still people who admire them, there are also people who are currently hippies, so they are undoubtedly very influential right only by his ideology but also by his way of being.