The hippies

The hippies were part of the "movement of the 1960s counterculture. Took on a communal way of life based on love and peace, nationalism and cursed the Vietnam War, took elements of religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and religions of American Indians. They disagreed with the traditional values of middle class Americans. They believed the government paternalism, militarism, multinational corporations and traditional social values as part of a system that, in their eyes, had no legitimacy.

The hippies automarginaban of society, finding ways to live together in peace and love were the most important values. This made most strongly opposed to the doctrines, commonly accepted values and mores.

The styles of the hippies are:

• bohemian lifestyle and stripped of material needs. Were chiefly aimed at community lif
e, pacifism and free love

• they were 'pro-nuclear disarmament', hence more representative hippie symbol, which is then associated with the slogan "love and peace"

• Achieving a state of alternative spirituality or higher consciousness using hallucinogenic drugs or through meditation

• Defend the ecology

• Do not agree with the use and abuse of hard drugs like alcohol, heroin, amphetamines and cocaine, mainly by high
degrees of addiction that generate and because they do not accept either the drug organized around them.

• Another feature of life typical of the 60s hippie 'era nomadism and pleasure travel.
They claimed that in the travel and the human adventure of self-discovery takes a person besides their ideas open to new cultures and people.