Innledning
As many thinks, the hippies weren´t only pot smoking rebels, they were actually demonstrating for something important and something good.
The counterculture started because of America´s involvement in the Vietnam War during the middle of the 19th century. The hippie movement was developed through the 1960s by teenagers and the young generation.
They were a nonviolent group who fought for fundamental rights. The counterculture reached the top during the involvement and escalation of the United States during the Vietnam war.
They weren´t only important for the war, but also for other historical events, like the demonstration for the civil rights, black power, feminism and gay liberation.
Like any other counterculture, the hippies rejected the society and the culture in their state and country in general.
The hippies would be described as the people who believed in the natural human being with long hair, no makeup and would just appreciate the nature.
This was completely opposite from the rest of the Americans at that time. Both men and women would walk around barefoot with colorful clothes flowers around their neck and in their hair.
They used their look as a protest against their own government. During this assignment I want to find out what the hippies were standing for and what relevance it has today, 60 years later.
Utdrag
Both the hippies then and the hippies now were and are young teenagers and young adults with a different vision on life.
A middle-aged man or woman is harder to convince when it comes to different topics because they were raised to not support or approve it.
A teenager or a young adult is living in this unfair universe where they fight to get a better future for their own sake.
An example related to this can be racism, there is several other older men and women who are racist, than the younger generation.
This is caused by the older generation who was raised during the racial segregation, or after. They were thought that the white people should have different and better rights than the colored ones.
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