Hippie Vans In The 60's
The 60’s was mostly a time of peace but it also seemed like there was never any hope for teens. By today’s standards, 60’s teens were less likely to find a good job, and that’s mostly because most of them were hippies that dropped out of high school and smoked pot in a VW Bus. However, these actions can be justified by the fact hippies often just wanted to live a more peaceful and stress free life than society had to offer them. In the present, teens are less rebellious than their hippie counterparts, and are less likely to do drugs which allows them to get a better job as a result. To understand what it was like to be a teenager in the 1960’s, you have to understand what was going on during that time. So just imagine a bunch of hippie vans,
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Their greater self esteem often lead the 60’s kids to be more adventurous and rebellious to what would have been considered the boring, average people of their society, which basically leads to the birth of the hippie; a guy who tries to pull himself out of the boring world of the 60’s societies and try to make a change, mostly with protecting the Earth by promoting peace, not war. The hippie was born roughly around the end of the 60’s, mainly because that was the same time the Vietnam War started drafting young adults into the war, which obviously began affecting the life of the typical teenager of that time. This caused the teens to dodge the draft by burning their draft papers and begin a new life of peace and not war by becoming hippies. However, everyone who has ever heard of hippies generally thinks of three things-flower patterned VW Buses, peace, and weed. Unfortunately, drug usage was pretty popular during the 60’s, mostly because the hippies felt that using drugs would help them spiritually and religiously, and the fact a majority of hippies were teens. Due to feeling
Their greater self esteem often lead the 60’s kids to be more adventurous and rebellious to what would have been considered the boring, average people of their society, which basically leads to the birth of the hippie; a guy who tries to pull himself out of the boring world of the 60’s societies and try to make a change, mostly with protecting the Earth by promoting peace, not war. The hippie was born roughly around the end of the 60’s, mainly because that was the same time the Vietnam War started drafting young adults into the war, which obviously began affecting the life of the typical teenager of that time. This caused the teens to dodge the draft by burning their draft papers and begin a new life of peace and not war by becoming hippies. However, everyone who has ever heard of hippies generally thinks of three things-flower patterned VW Buses, peace, and weed. Unfortunately, drug usage was pretty popular during the 60’s, mostly because the hippies felt that using drugs would help them spiritually and religiously, and the fact a majority of hippies were teens. Due to feeling