{"id":11551,"date":"2017-05-15T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:12:31","slug":"vse-chto-nuzhno-znat-o-detyah-tsvetov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/2017\/05\/15\/vse-chto-nuzhno-znat-o-detyah-tsvetov\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you know about the “flower children”?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time<\/span> 14<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Hippie. It was not just a youth movement, it was a whole era. Look at the history of current that flourished fifty years ago, and try to understand what it attracted young people and why it has become a real phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Where they came from?<\/h5>\n

The hippie subculture emerged in the US in the 1960-ies. For the first time the word “hippie” was made in one of the American TV shows and belonged to the young people who opposed the war in Vietnam. According to one version, the word “hippie” is rooted in American slang means “to be aware”, “kerf”, the other is a word invented by journalists.<\/p>\n

Summer 1967 historians call the “Summer of love<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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“Summer of love”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then about a hundred thousand hippies gathered in the area of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco to celebrate their love and freedom. “Flower children” (as they were called because of the habit to weave in hair flowers and give bouquets to passers-by) have lived in the city’s Golden gate Park. There they distributed free food, and if necessary provide medical help. A landmark event in the history of the hippies was the rock festival “Music, Love and Flowers” in the city of Monterey (California).<\/p>\n

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She is a hippie at a music festival, 1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the way, lighting festivals, which have a lot of time passed in the country, the media tried to show the hippy with the worst hand: life on the street, drugs, unkempt appearance, promiscuity, idleness. Because of this, the society has developed a stereotype about hippies as idlers who do not care about anything. In fact, the movement’s representatives actively participated in rallies and demonstrations. In the fall of 1967 in Washington, hippies held a “March on the Pentagon”. In the procession was attended by over 35 thousand people. The building of the Pentagon, demonstrators were stopped by riot police.<\/p>\n

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member of the “March on the Pentagon” inserts a flower into the muzzle of the rifle of the military police<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first wave of the hippie movement ended with a rock music festival “Woodstock”<\/a>, who in August 1969 was attended by about half a million people. This event is called the end of the “hippie era”. The second and third waves of the movement were, respectively, 80-ies and 90-ies.<\/p>\n