• GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that’s just not true. Time Magazine put the number around 300,000. In a country of 200 million, that’s only 0.15% of the population. They were a counterculture not mainstream culture. The vast majority of kids did not become hippies, and many actively hated the hippies.

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        10 months ago

        A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

        True, but not all of them were hippies.

        A lot of regular people, especially the younger generation, were doing drugs and protesting Vietnam.

        Those two things are not what makes a hippie a hippie. It’s their life view that does.

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      10 months ago

      People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that’s just not true.

      '60s, maybe not, but 70s? There was a lot more of them then.

      But yeah, not everyone was.