Hippies in America
... These young people were called hipsters, or “Hippies”. The Hippies actually evolved from an earlier group in the Nineteen fifties called the beatniks. ... Although the beatniks were an earlier version of the hippies, the beatniks were only trying to make a statement, the hippies were the one to take this movement out of the coffeehouses and on to the streets. These first groups of hippies to be recognized were found in San Francisco, California, along the Haight Ashbury district. ... Michael Fallon is responsible for giving this group of teenagers the name Hippies. ... The hippies did try to create their own counterculture, and to take notice of the generation gap between them and their parents. The first group of hippies from San Francisco followed a slogan of “ turn on tune in, and drop out” ~ Timothy Leary. ... Although most hippies were classified as drugies, which most of them were, that was only part of the protest. ... There were many different types of hippies; there were East Coast hippies, West Coast hippies, City hippies, suburban hippies, beach and neo Polynesian hippies, River hippies, and musical and poetical hippies. One way to tell the difference between the different groups of hippies was by the way of dress. For example the West Coast hippies wore bandanas different than the East Coast hippies, and the West Coast hippies wore jeans more often than East Coast hippies did. Within the hippies there was a different dress for different groups, but all hippies followed a code, or a set of beliefs. ... Most hippies turned into eastern religions such as Tao ( an Oriental philosophy “ the way “, as the hippies would say ), Gaia ( the earth as an organism ), Shamanism, and Vegetarianism.