um, my social studies teacher mentioned them recently. i dont know how reliable he is, before he mentioned yippies he was talking about 'the long-haired hippy freaks' :/ anyway he said something like they elected a pig for president... he made them seem really horrible wikipedia says: The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on "Hippies") was a highly theatrical political party established in the United States in 1967. An offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s, Yippies presented a youth-oriented countercultural alternative to the strait-laced earnestness often associated with representatives of those movements. ...
so: teacher a square, and my friend wikki being as weird as ever (why do they put stuff like that on, the way they said it) anybody else?
or when your'e really happy? like...'Yippie!' 'eriously tho...does a 'yippie' = a 'hippy', or is there a difference?
it stands for Youth International Party. members included:Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, and Stew Albert. it was a play on the word hippie. It was a radical leftist group that wanted to unite the hippie stoner crowd with the revolutionaries. (many "hippies" back then werent political activists. they sat around smoking pot.. it was college kids who tended to do activism). A few Yippies that came along later were Dana Beal and Aron Pieman Kay, who is most famous for throwing a pie in Nixon's face, but has pied many many people. They both still fight the good fight. If you listen to Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" he says in part of it "Lets hear it for the hippies and the yippies". He was good friends with them. One might even call him one. "Yippie" is also often misused as a rich hippy. Thats not a yippie. That would be a Yuppie. Which are the hippies that sold out to the square world in the 80s.
ok then, thanks another question: the older kids on the block, who were into the hippie-ness of it all in the 60's and 70's, but are now...moms? i dont know, not hippies, kinda of just hanging out.
sorry. the people who were hippies in the 60's and 70's, but stopped. The kind of person your'e mom is (or someone you know around the same age) A name for them, or do they just get to be there, and remain nameless?
well, if they are still hip, they are hippies. my mom was never a hippie. my dad sorta was. but i just call him dad nah, i dont know. i dont label people. age dont matter. its the soul that matters.
its all about what they are NOW. if their a hippie, they're a hippie, if they're not, they're not. dont get too caught up in labels though, its bad stuff.
