They are BOTH correct. In that, 'Hippy" is an individual thing. A general theme is be kind and peaceful to others. (We could get world peace this way.)
I agree with everyone else. There is no one way to be a hippy. Just love life, love others and love yourself. Believe in peace and set yourself free. Peaceful wishes your way.
Defining yourself by who you are instead of who you think you should be or what others want you to believe. An intense belief that love and peace could change the world. An overwhelming repect for our Mother. It could be any, or just one of these things. Or it could be completely different! It's what you want it to be!
A hippie is a peaceful, loving, appreciating person. That's about all there is to it. Drugs, clothes, music, politics, etc. don't have anything to do with it. They can, but they don't have to. Just peace and love.
Freedom should be a part of it, no matter what way its done, either if its the freedom to go where you want, or do what you want.. to follow your own rules. And love. I always found freedom and love more imoprtant then peace, but then again I'm only partly hippie when it comes to taht (I believe war is natural in nature so that it can't be prevented)
Haha you reminded me of something, last year my socyology teacher said to me that i can't be a hipoie bacause Macedonia doesn't have licence to have hipiies hahaha (and she was serious)
~Hippie (or sometimes "hippy") is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. ~someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle ~A Hippie is a person who was raised under the ideological system that came out of the tumultuous 1960's in North America and western Europe. They are either of the flower-child/baby boomer generation or that generations' subsequent offspring. They possess a core belief set revolving around the values of peace and love as being essential in an increasingly globalized society, and they are oftentimes associated with non-violent anti-governmental groups. There is a stigma of drug abuse attached to the hippies that is prevalent to this day, specifically the use and abuse of marijuana and hallucinagens. Many rock movements,poets, artists, and writers from the 1960's to today have associated with this movement, most prominently The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Phish. There are others too numerous to name. The movement, then and now, is considered a sub-culture by sociologists that associates itself with the left in all its political opinions. The conservative right often berates and abuses the opinions of people who associate themselves with the hippie movement and/or lifestyle, as the consider it dangerous and degenerative to a society to favor liberalism to such an extent.
