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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the cultural foundations of the hippie movement in 1960s America. The influence of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and psychedelics is explored. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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itself to conservative values, adopting a stance wherein commitment to values of country and family was billed as being of paramount importance, and the singular trait that separated Americans from
other countries such as the Soviet Union. In other words, conservative values were almost something like a national identity during the 1940s and 1950s. It is curious, then, that the
1960s represented such a dramatic turn from this course. Within the span of just one generation, the "hippies" as they came to be known, eschewed the conservative values of their
parents and grandparents, instead adopting a mentality devoted to universal brotherhood and liberal social policies. Just what brought such a change about and made it culturally possible? There were three
primary causal factors contributing to the development of the hippie movement in 1960s America: reactionary sentiment towards social conditions, increased education among the youth, and the institutional advocating of psychedelic
drugs. In the next three paragraphs, the student is shown how to develop the causal chain leading to the establishment of the hippie movement. The first link in the causal
chain that made it possible for the hippie movement to occur were the social conditions experienced by young people growing up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port
Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering and nationalist mentality associated with international relations during the Cold War, as well as internal conflicts stemming from the
grotesque inequalities suffered by African Americans in the United States had an extreme impact upon the developing social consciousness of these young people ("Port Huron" 1962; Huber, Lemieux, & Hollis
2010). Determined that these cultural elements were not conducive to the development of a society they wanted to live in, many young people adopted a radically opposed form of liberalism
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