2. Definition/o
rigin
• The hippie (or hippy) subculture was originally a youth movement
that arose in the United States during the middle of 60s and
spread to other countries around the world. The word ‘hippie’came
from hipster, and was initially used to describe ‘beatniks’. Hippies
created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock,
embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as
cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of.
Consciusness.The first tended to cynicism, liked existentialist
philosophy and usually dressed all in black or brown, the hippies
had a more positive attitude and dressed in colorful clothes.
• Icons: Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Pink
Floyd, The Who, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Yoko
Ono, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling
Stones.
3. Stereotypes
The common stereotype on the
issues of love and sex had it that the
hippies were promiscuous, having
wild sex orgies, seducing innocent
teenagers and every manner of
sexual perversion.
They use bright colors and faded
flowered shirts, long faults and bell
bottoms. Some use Indian
clothes, and take the flower as a
symbol of American Indians.
4. Role model
Their role model is Christ, who guides the
people to the volition of his father. the hippies
promoted the free love(sex free), be
free(anarchy) and peace (stay in drugs), are
letting unwanted children who are abandoned o
raised in inappropriate places; sexual
diseases, with no rules of living together, and
their use of the inverted cross symbol within a
circle declaring that they are not under the will
of God.
5. Scott McKenzie –
SanFrancisco
If you're going to san Francisco
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
if you're going to san Francisco
you’re gonna meet some gentle people therefor
those who come to san Francisco
summertime will be a love-in there
in the streets of san Francisco
gentle people with flowers in their hair
all across the nation
such a strange vibration
people in motion
there’s a whole generation
with a new explanation
people in motion
people in motion
for those who come to san Francisco
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
if you come to san Francisco
summertime will be a love-in there
if you come to san Francisco
summertime will be a love-in there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s