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A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in British English, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, originally a youth movement ...
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
According to lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip and the synonym hep, whose origins are disputed. [1] The words hip and hep first surfaced in slang around the beginning of the 20th century and spread quickly, making their first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1904.
The hippie trail (also the overland [1]) was an overland journey taken by members of the hippie subculture and others from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s [2] travelling from Europe and West Asia through South Asia via countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, [3] India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh to Thailand.
The word hippie comes from the African-American slang word hip. African-American dress and hairstyles such as braids (often decorated with beads), dreadlocks, and language were copied by hippies and developed into a new countercultural movement used by hippies.
"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
Flower child originated as a synonym for Hippie, especially among the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and the surrounding area during the Summer of Love in 1967. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize ideals of universal belonging, peace, and love ...
[18] [136] There was a culture clash when many of the hippie protesters strolled en masse into the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope. [ 137 ] On August 7, 1971, a Yippie smoke-in in Vancouver was attacked by police, resulting in the Gastown Riot , one of the most famous protests in Canadian history.