Can someone please tell me....?

Question

Are a beatnic and a hippie really the same kind of person?

Answer 1

I'm 61 years and a child of the sixties, so I can answer with some authority. Beatniks were more from the 50's, they were into weird dark poetry and jazz music, they dressed pretty much like everyone else. They thought work was for "squares", mostly they hung out at jazz clubs and poetry coffee houses, guy's would grow "goat tee" beards.

Hippies were a whole different thing, they started out as "protesters" in the mid sixties, mostly about the Viet Nam war, by the late 60's the peace and love" thing started, then the "flower" children, free love and all that , by the early 70's the hippies emerged, bell bottom pants, loud print and ty dyed shirts, long straight hair, LSD got into it, then just about every kind of drug you can imagine, mostly they were drifters and drug addicts, always looking for the next high and a place to "crash", By the late seventies they had faded away, now some of them are Lawyers and Judges, could be your Mayor or city Councilman, who knows? Charles Manson and his followers are good examples of hippies.

Answer 2

Similar, but about 10-20 years apart...beatniks are from the late 50's early 60's, hippies are also more long haired and "free" from soaps and showers. lol The music they listen too is different as well, beatniks listened to more prose/poetic percussion pieces, hippies got into the so called flower rock. Both love/hate politics though.

Answer 3

No they are not the same 2 different era's of time..
Beatnic was about music
Hippie was about Peace,Love and War

Answer 4

"The word "hippie" derives from word "hipster", and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district"
"The hippie subculture was a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world."
"Beatnik is a media stereotype that borrowed the most superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s to present a distorted (and sometimes violent), cartoon-like misrepresentation of the real-life people and the spirituality found in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction."

Answer 5

no!!!!! they are soooo completly different! first, beatnicks are more into the intelectual stuff. they are also very minimialist. thats why they would wear all black etc. hippies on the other hand were more into getting in touch with the earth. they also liked drugs. and finally, i believe that beatnicks were a few years before hippies, who were around durring the late 60's and early 70's.

Answer 6

I know what a hippie is, but never heard of a beatnic, so don't know if they are the same.

Answer 7

No, a Beatnic is a hippie that lives by the ocean!

Answer 8

Pretty well....

Hippie: person, esp. of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc.

Beatnik: a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior, dress, etc

Answer 9

No. A beatnic is one who sits around coffee houses sharing their poetry to a jazzy beat.
A hippie is a peace-loving individual who wants to do nothing more than share his love with his fellow man, be one with nature and just be.

Answer 10

no a beatnic is in to poems and arts and a hippies are into protest and free love