I et no one can tell me why people in haight ashbury were called hippies?

Question

the first one with the correct and I mean CORRECT answer gets ten points- i am speaking of the people who gathered at the BE-In - before the summer of love- come on hippies - i know you're out there- and if you were at the be- in you should know!

Answer 1

The term is an old "beat nic" term. They were they first hippes actually and name comes from the term; to be hip. Hey my generation was more the 70's and the hippie generation was pretty much dead by 1972.

Answer 2

Because we were hip to the scene man !!

Answer 3

Hippie was a term the people of the movement gave themselves.  They were off shoots of the 1950's Beatnik movement.  The considered themseves cool and "hip" so coined the phrase Hippies around 1965.

Answer 4

Did the denizens of Haight Ashbury segue from hippies into Flower Children (maybe during the Summer of Love)? (Hippies definitely predated Flower Children.)

I always assumed that the term "hippies" stems from "hip" ... to be cool, to be with it.

Answer 5

The Hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world, The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. These people inherited the countercultural values of the Beat generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.

In 1967, the Human Be-In in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. In Mexico, the jipitecas formed La Onda Chicana and gathered at "Avándaro", while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom, mobile "peace convoys" of New age travellers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge.

Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by the mainstream. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a wide audience. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in a myriad of forms—from health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to the cyberspace revolution.

Answer 6

Hippie was a derogatory name coined by the 50's hipster-beat poets to describe 60's wannabes

Answer 7

They ate a lot of junk food. It made them rather wide in the pelvis.

Answer 8

summer of love is just some nonsense term the media came up with when they do those never ending Manson pieces. There was no "summer of love" in Connecticut in 1969..

Hippies were everywhere, I don't know what Haight Ashbury has to do with it.

Answer 9

People who were on the outside edge of society were cool, or hep cats.  That evolved into hipsters, and then into hippies.