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Hippie
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Hippie
A
hippie
(or
hippy
) is a member of a liberal
counterculture
, originally a
youth movement
that started in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word
hippie
came from
hipster
and was initially used to describe
beatniks
who had moved into New York City's
Greenwich Village
and San Francisco's
Haight-Ashbury
district. The term
hippie
was first popularized in San Francisco by
Herb Caen
, who was a journalist for the
San Francisco Chronicle
. The origins of the terms
hip
and
hep
are uncertain, although by the 1940s both had become part of
African American
jive
slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". The Beats adopted the term
hip
, and early hippies inherited the language and
countercultural values
of the
Beat Generation
. Hippies created their own communities, listened to
psychedelic music
, embraced the
sexual revolution
, and used drugs such as
cannabis
,
LSD
,
peyote
and
psilocybin mushrooms
to explore
altered states of consciousness
.
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