The hippie subculture started as a youth movement that came to being in the United States during the mid-1960s and expanded to other countries across the world. The origin of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was first utilized as a description of beatniks who migrated into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Both the words "hip" and "hep" originate from African American culture and denote "awareness". The first generation hippies inherited the counter cultural values of the Beat Generation, formed their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock and roll music, embraced the sexual revolution, and some partook in the use of narcotics such as marijuana, LSD and psychedelic mushrooms to experience the altered state of mind the drugs had on their psyche.
In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco mad the hippie culture popular, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and communed at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom, mobile "peace convoys" of New age travelers made summer journies to free music festivals at Stonehenge. In Australia hippies met up at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. "Piedra Roja Festival", a super large hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970.
Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, movies, books, and the arts. Since the hippie movement in the 1960s, multiple aspects of hippie culture have been passed on by mainstream society and hippie clothes are still very popular today. The religious and cultural diversity promoted and believed in by the hippies has garnered acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger and more massive audience. The hippie legacy can be viewed in modern culture in a variety of forms, including health food, music festivals and concerts, contemporary sexual values, and even the Internet revolution.
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