Can you tell me the difference between Hippies and Beatniks?

Answer 1

The Beat Generation was created by the press in the late1940s and 1950s with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Krouak as the princes. In "On The Road' by Krouak he said, "illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way -- a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word "beat" spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America -- beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction.

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from word hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. These people inherited the counter cultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs like cannabis and LSD to explore consciousness.

Answer 2

Beatnik Hipster

Answer 3

Beatniks were part of...or at the start of the "beat generation" The first real subculture (for white kids at least) they wore black turtlenecks and black jeans...they had longish...hair and were into poetry and jazz...watch James Dean..he was a real Beatnik. Hippies came later and were altogether less intelectual in the main..long hair,beads, drugs and rock music....

Answer 4

beetnick were in the 50s era,while hippies were in the 60s era.....beatnicks just dressed better and showered!haha