Questions About Hippie Culture.

Hi this is Lu, I am a Chinese student studying American culture. I have some questions about the hippie culture. It would be really helpful if you can answer these questions.
Thank you!
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[SIZE=12pt]Q: What kind of music do hippies listen to?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Q: Tell me about your lifestyle. How do you earn your income?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Q: Is drug use common among hippies?[/SIZE]

 

hi lulu here r my answers:

1) i personally listen 2 mostly 60's & 70's music. i also listen 2 christian rock.

2) i am disabled so i earn my income from the gov. i spend most of my time going 2 appts 4 me & my 11 yr old son liam. we go 2 church every wensday & sunday & sometimes on friday. i don't cut, color or perm my hair. i don't wear jewelry. i shower regularly but i do not wear deodorant. we eat as healthy as we can afford. i go barefoot as much as i can.

3) lots of hippies smoke pot, drop acid & eat magic mushrooms. i don't i'm on a number of prescription meds so i stay clean

i hope this info helps lulu. if u have any more questions feel free 2 PM me in chat.

 

I primarily listen to classic rock and country & western but I enjoy just about every genre except rap and hip hop.

I sell computer hardware software and services to businesses.

I am a social drinker and do not use any drugs.

 

Hi Lu lu lu,
I like all kinds of music but I really enjoy rock and country.. I also like 90's hip hop and R&B from time to time..

I work full time for a medical center. I am a billing specialist so I handle billing issues for our providers..

I smoke weed almost everyday and have since 9th grade. I am married., have 2 beautiful little boys and a great job.

Hope this helps. Pm me if u need more info

 

Hippies listen to anything and everything that can be called music. Look at the use of Indian instruments by the Beatles and Macklemore can play a freakin Dulcimer of all things. Personally, I can only play the stereo, though I am trying to learn a little Ukulele. I listen mostly to new or alternative music though I still own vinyl going back to the 70s. For a while I didn't get to pick the music and had to endure that of my parents as we only had 1 stereo in the house. They liked Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, Sonny & Cher, The Beatles and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

My lifestyle has changed many times. I started working in the 70s as a minimum wage slave and went to lots of rock and roll concerts, and Rod Stewart (she wanted to go, and I wanted her, so.....). Disco saved most of my adolescent sex life. When it crashed and burned I switched to punk for a while because the Navy took off all of my hair. I liked New Wave a lot in the 80s as I made my living in computers. In the 90s I abandoned computers to work in a factory and a generator winding facility. Finally I morphed into a parent and generated a steady living by writing really boring things for huge, merciless corporations. We raise some of our food and avoid heavily processed crap unless we're in were-hog mode (a dietary holiday of a sort). I also make wine and brandy which I trade illegally for eggs, goat cheese and local chicken.

I think drugs are an up and down thing that rides aside hippie culture (a loaded term to be sure). I used drugs in the 70s, mostly cannabis, alcohol and speed. In the 80s I used a lot of speed to propel an award winning computer systems sales career. Then I burned out and switched to meth for a while. I finally beat that problem in the early 90s by switching to crack! All of that ended back in 1995 when Jane, my wife, showed me the ultrasound that would soon be our first child. I decided not to be a strung out father and turned into what appeared to be a corporate geek for a long time. I don't think being a hippie has a specific call to drugs and I have known plenty of hippies who didn't use them at all. But I knew others who never quit. A few of them died. These days I'll have scotch, cannabis and an occasional energy drink and that's as far as my habit goes.

 

I listen to a variety of music from Pink Floyd or the Beatles to slipknot and pantera even some haystak.

I try to go by the live and let live motto. I mostly keep to myself tho kind of a hermit i guess. I have a job in manufacturing building farm equipment.


I smoke a little kind bud but that's it.

 

1. Whatever tunes them in
2. Following that which turns out to give Love through Conviction and Conscience (although, as we all know - "Money can't buy you Love")
3. For those who decide to drop out

 

1. Mainly Reggaeton and Bachata with a liberal helping of Hip Hop. But I do sometimes listen to non Latino music. (Nicky Jam, Romeo Santos, Thalia, Daddy Yankee)
2. Retired and living on a small pension with my current wife and our newest child.
3. I love chilled out drugs like opium and pot, trippy stuff just doesn't do it for me. Unfortunately I live in a country where the police shoot you in the head if they catch you with drugs, no trial and body left by the road, so I restrict myself to alcohol now.

Just to point out hippy culture originated in England/Germany and not America.