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In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream. In practice, the term is most commonly used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America and Western Europe in the 1960s.

Hippie (or sometimes "hippy") is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s.

Though not a cohesive cultural movement with manifestos and leaders, hippies expressed their desire for change with communal or nomadic lifestyles, by renouncing corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, by embracing aspects of non-traditional religious cultures, and with criticism of Western middle class values. Criticism included the views that the goverment was paternalistic, corporate industry was greedy and domineering, traditional morals were askew, and war was inhumane. The structures and institutions they rejected came to be called the establishment.

"Hippie" is also used, in a derogatory sense, to describe long-haired unkempt drug users, regardless of their socio-political beliefs.

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies. Long ago, different nations or regions of the world would go through their own independent sequence of movements in culture, but as world communications have accelerated this geographical distinction has become less noteworthy. When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to the next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ones fade. These changes are often reactions against the prior cultural form, which typically has grown stale and repetitive. An obsession emerges among the mainstream with the new movement, and the old one falls into neglect - sometimes it dies out entirely, but often it chugs along favored in a few disciplines and occasionally making reappearances (sometimes prefixed with "neo-").

There is continual argument over the precise definition of each of these periods, and one historian might group them differently, or choose different names or descriptions. As well, even though in many cases the popular change from one to the next can be swift and sudden, the beginning and end of movements are somewhat subjective, as the movements did not spring fresh into existence out of the blue and did not come to an abrupt end and lose total support, as would be suggested by a date range. Thus use of the term "period" is somewhat deceptive. "Period" also suggests a linearity of development, whereas it has not been uncommon for two or more distinctive cultural approaches to be active at the same time. Historians will be able to find distinctive traces of a cultural movement before its accepted beginning, and there will always be new creations in old forms. So it can be more useful to think in terms of broad "movements" that have rough beginnings and endings. Yet for historical perspective, some rough date ranges will be provided for each to indicate the "height" or accepted timespan of the movement.

"Anti-establishment" defines a certain view or belief that goes against the conventional social, political and economic principles being used in society.

The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. It has come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, mainly in the United States but also in other western countries, particularly France, West Germany and Britain. Social upheaval was not limited to just these nations, reaching large scale in nations such as Japan and Mexico as well. The term is used both nostalgically by those who participated in those events, and censoriously by those who regard them as a period whose harmful effect are still being felt today.

Popular memory has conflated into "the Sixties" some events which did not actually occur in that decade. The American Civil Rights Movement, for example, began in earnest during the 1950s, although some of its most dramatic events occurred in the early '60s. On the other hand, women's liberation and gay liberation began only in the very late '60s and reached their full flowering in the 1970s. But the term Sixties has become a convenient shorthand for all the new, exciting, radical, subversive and/or dangerous (according to one’s viewpoint) events and trends of the period. (The source for all this groovy info was http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Welcome!

Heres a few rules .....

One. There will be no drug trafficking, sales, or other direction of obtaining any drug discussed within posts. Doing so will have you automatically banned.

Two. Be respectful of other members. If someone posts anything to your dislike, discuss. Don't barrage them for it, then just let it go. Don't be rude when telling someone if they are wrong, explain yourself. This community is meant for the friendly discussion of facts, good times, interests, politics, natural parenting, counter culturalism, naturalism, religion, traveling, society, activisim, creativity, crafts and art.

Three. Be intelligent. Try to make your posts as detailed as possible. Feel free to promo sites or other communities that relate to this one in a relevant way.

Four. Subject title in your application must be "What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country." (lol Fear and loathing in Las Vegas...great movie eh?!

Five. Post often, comment often! Enjoy!!

*Notes: Put your application/pictures under an lj-cut and all pictures must be work safe, also please make your application easy to understand.

The application is optional but if you join a small hello would be nice!!!

Please fill out a small bit of info about yourself. Just join our community, then return to the communities info page, click the post to hippie_haven button, copy and paste the application questions, then fill out the answers and post it to the community. Anything that is not appropriate will be deleted FAST. So don't bother bring any uncool vibes here.

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