What happend in the 60's?

Question

I'm a teen wondering where the hippies came from?Why did they wanna be different from the 50's America?And why did people in the 60's stop being patriotic?Why?

Answer 1

People in the 1960's were patriotic, they just didn't see how a war in a far-off Asian country that didn't even want us there would help OUR country in any way. They felt badly seeing flag draped coffins carrying our dead coming back, along with the many wounded and permanently disabled.

You're too young to know but 1950's America was VERY judgmental. You don't know what it's like to have been poor or black or Hispanic or otherwise different and to have the wrath of the community poured on you just because you were born "different."

The people of the 60's helped create the world as we have it NOW, where it's OK to be gay or to be a darker color than your neighbor. Don't criticize it if you don't know what you're talking about! Peace protesters can be just as patriotic as anyone else. They just don't necessarily agree with what the government thinks is best for us. Who needs a world full of sheep?

Answer 2

Technology changed. We entered the race for outer space with the Russians and had landed on the moon by '69. TVs that were in few homes in the '50s were black and white, by the 60's TVs were in every home and in color. The military thought that they would no trouble winning the war because of the helicopter but they were wrong. Vietnam was sorta a testing ground for new technology in weapons. With a space age feel, fashion got daring coming up with mini shirts and GoGo boots. Vietnam Vets brought the bell bottom jeans into fashion from the Navy and Military jackets became popular wear. Vets also brought back Asian thought about religion. Music become different with the electric instruments. British bands found a market in the states with the introduction of the Beatles. The Beatles also created interest in Indian fashion, religion and furniture. For some reason drugs became more popular maybe because of new religious thought. American Indians, finally, were found to be interesting and their religions and fashion became popular. Ect.

Answer 3

I lived in California in the 60's. I graduated high school in 1964. The hippies came from everywhere and a lot of them ended up in California. Those you now call "Hippies" were some of the most patriotic folks you can imagine. Some of them were just there for the thrills, the drugs, the free ride. The Hippies I refer to were the ones with vision that changed society in ways so numerous there isn't enough time to tell you all of it. Don't ever accept the stereotypical image the present day media portrays. It's far,far from accurate. A lot of what they were rebelling against was parental and governmental (ie., institutional) opression that manifested in the 50's as McCarthyism, Jim Crow laws, and just general hypocrisy. The 50's was not "Happy Days" believe me.

Answer 4

The 1960's was a period of radical political, social and economic change. The asasination of JFK, the death of his brother RFK, Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, all contributed to a complete lack of faith in government - and particular the Presidency.

After emerging victorious from the Second World War and becoming a global superpower, the fight for freedom and democracy against Soviet aggression in Europe and in Asia did not translate into those same values in practice back home.

Everyone questioned that the government had something to hide over the assasinations of JFK and Martin Luther King. Protest marches for civil rights movements were demanding that equality for all people of all creeds and colours.

The 1960's were not less patriotic - people just simply lost faith in a political system that talked about democracy and freedom in foreign policy - but where was this same equality for everyone?

LBJ simply did not have the answers to people's questions and he was unsympathetic to their causes and concerns.

Answer 5

We came from every city of the United States.
The 60's was the summer of love. We graduated from high school, had wings on our feet and stars in our eyes.

Many went to San Francisco, some of us ended up in,
Los Angeles, panhandling money for rent and food!

Many were extremely wealthy, but didn't want to be tied to the "money purse strings attached," to their inheritance, by their parents. In L.A., we missed Woodstock!

It wasn't that we wanted to be different, every generation has their own "thing."

Look at today. Girls like Britney are half-naked on television. We wore clothes and hung out. We came from every major American city. Rich or poor, we all got along.

L.A., in the 60s, as they say, was a "happening."
I was in L.A. because I want to act and model.
Perhaps the Viet-Nam war stopped people from being patriotic, I don't know, nor care.

Answer 6

many things were going on... the civil rights, Vietnam war which was the first war to be shown on TV night after night that changed the way we viewed war. at the time people in the war were considered "baby killers" (our men). so that brought about the whole love and peace theme. then u had rock n roll come into play and they started singing about the war and politics. people woke up. they watched the slaughter of an American president and then his brother on national TV. martin Luther king being assinated. the NAACP became prominent and enforcing the rights of blacks. in 1966 you had the slaughter of the tower masacres, which changed the feeling of the populace on feeling safe in public. not to mention the manson murders.

hippies were passive drug induced kids who were tired of the rat race of the parents. they were about love and freedom. it was it's own culture. they are now the very people who epitomize what's wrong with america now.

women underwent their own revolution. demanding equal rights.

change is good. it wasn't that people were unpatriotic, it's that they were being fed propoganda in the new media and people didn't realize what the troops were going through. they were being used by the government.

it was about people questioning authority and standing up to what they thought was wrong. it always starts with the younger generation. they were idealistic. i believe i left out the kent state murders. also, you had civil rights activist who were facing death and murder for supporting civil rights.

it's very convulated.

Answer 7

Vietnam was one thing that happened. It was a war, I mean um, a POLICE ACTION and we went in and killed a lot of civilians, messed up a whole country and then abandoned them. Sound familiar?

And it was a time when high school and college students didn't trust their elders so much. It was becoming clear that politics and business were cynical and often dishonest. So they rebelled, wearing clothes their parents didn't like, growing out their hair and dropping out of society to travel and do drugs. Some of it was pretty stupid, obviously.
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Answer 8

The sixties were the "Re-bel " generation who were anti-government and against rules of most types. They believed
in freedom and Rock n roll, drugs, orgies and anything for
a good-time. Alot of people refferred to them as flower
children who liked to live in comunes or desert retreat
communties on the out-skirts of civilization. Alot of them
lived in Vans, others in make-shift school busses which
were painted up in florencent colors and lots of grafitti like
make love, not War. Peace signs all over them. Most were
friendly who tried to live in their fantasy world until all the money ran out. You can only live-off the land for so long.

Answer 9

Hippies were a bunch of pothead idiots...they wanted to shake off the restrictions of society and get back to nature and freedom.

Answer 10

the British invasion the beatles the Stones
and also steve Jobs was working on the idea
of a pc