2007-01-06 18:58:46 · 13 answers · asked by SOL SIREN 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
By the way, I'm not a hippy but I've been accused of being one by the questions I have asked.
What's wrong with Hippies?
2007-01-08 22:40:36 · update #1
because this country has too many conservative idiots....
2007-01-06 19:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by man_in_the_box2590 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
People do not hate and insult hippies. Hippie is an archaic word anyway. It's from the 1960's and 70's. Evolved during the Vietnam war, uh, I mean conflict. It referrers to having long hair and a person who "rejects established mores, advocates nonviolence, and often uses psychedelic drugs or marijuana, also a long haired unconventionally dressed young person," according to Merriam Webster's 11th Edition Collegiate Dictionary. That's the Status Que nowadays isn't it? Anyway, making a joke about a hippie is not insulting in my opinion, and I'm almost old enough to be one. So don't take it personally.
2007-01-06 19:14:26 · answer #2 · answered by Finnis 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My goodness, I thought we were a dying breed, referred mainly as "that old hippy." Hippies, by intent, were rebelling against the standards and perhaps rigid mores of society in general. By attempting to reject conventional dress codes, lifestyles and cultural expectations, they stirred a basic and quite natural unease in people who adhered to those conventionas. A common reaction to the unusual is to disparage or insult it. "That person is not like me; I am right and good; therefore, that person must be wrong and bad." It's a normal and common human response.
2007-01-06 19:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by expatturk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason always given when I was young was that we were dirty and immoral; we never took showers (lie: I took one whenever I could, but that was not always very often), we were having illicit sex (guilty as charged), and taking illegal drugs (yeah, but they should not be illegal). We were hedonists who did not work. (Wrong; we were hedonists that worked at what we wanted to, not what "society" thought we should.)
Anyway, now I think it's mostly that they figure we are out of date.
P.S. to those who thought the hippies were all gone, come to California. Here we are in the Santa Cruz Mountains, being much like we always were, except fatter and greyer.
2007-01-07 20:37:16 · answer #4 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats the way society is, cos of theyre life style. And they are depicted as druggies etc...and its not true. There is always afew that tarnish the Hippy life style, and cause problems for the the whole Hippy Commune....Peace People!
2007-01-06 19:08:02 · answer #5 · answered by brissy_006 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They don't. The hippies are no more. People hate and insult modern teenagers who were raised by wealthy and middle class parents trying to usurp a defunct protest movement because they think the clothes are neat.
2007-01-06 19:12:26 · answer #6 · answered by Sammer (Jim W) 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Hippies" as I know them, are from the 60's, I don't acknowledge today's teens as "hippies", but rather I call them "granolas", the hippies I knew were weed smoking, LSD taking peace loving anti-Vietnam protest types in the 60's and early 70's (During Vietnam).
As for today's nature/earth kids (I call them granolas......), well, I'm sure they are going to get picked on just like the "Goth's" or "rockers" or "nerds" or "geeks", etc etc.......
2007-01-06 19:07:02 · answer #7 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are still hippies? I thought they were all gone. Well, except for a few old guys who smoked so much wacky weed they don't care when it is, LOL.
Seriously, you know a hippy?
2007-01-06 19:03:04 · answer #8 · answered by Gnome 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People will often insult and complain about what the do not understand and that's a pretty immature way to deal with something that you don't understand. People need to learn to be more open minded.
2007-01-06 19:53:42 · answer #9 · answered by glow 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If we knew the answer to that, then we would be one step closer to peace and global understanding. Look at it from other people's perspectives. They are afraid of change and the greater good. Stereotypes and bad media.
2007-01-06 19:10:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
damn i am a 54 year old hippie and HATE INSULT only for the man dude/.
2007-01-06 19:47:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋