Cathryn DiGiuseppe
Ms. Concordia
English 10 Honors
27 May 2008
The Hippie Way
Throughout the past, hippies have been judges harshly because of their beliefs, how they expressed themselves, and how they lived their lives. Due to the media the way that hippies were portrayed discouraged many to follow the 'hippie way,' or hippie lifestyle. Hippies had been considered different all because they opened their minds to other possibilities other than what they have been told to believe and so the public was shown and told of the bad things about hippies and so their visualization of a hippie was nothing at all alike the real thing. To the public, what they were told was the one and only definition of a hippie, but maybe that was all because they did not know the true definition of a hippie; who they were, what they stood for, and how they came to be the way they were. However, how a hippie lives and dresses is not an accurate definition of who and what they were and still are. What one person believes in, and fights for is a much better way to describe who they are.
Throughout history, every generation has had its own type of rebellion before adulthood. The most extreme acts of rebellion occurred in the 1960's due to multiple problems in our society. According to Callan, the author of America in the 1960s, the young people who wished to get away from all of the problems that were overwhelming the nation, formed a new type of society called the counterculture which is a culture that rejects the values of the established culture (20). Also, according to McConnell, the author of The Counterculture Movement of the 1960s, this term describes the different philosophies, movements, and activist groups that all wished to change the political and cultural ideas of America in the 1960s (11). These people wished to separate themselves in order to make a difference. They felt that by exiling themselves from the established culture and joining together to form their own would...
