What is the difference between a beatnik and a hippie?

Question

I know that beatniks are generally defined to be from the 50's, and Hippies from the 60's. I want to know, when it comes to ideology, what are the differences between the two?

Thanks

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie

Answer 2

Beatniks were basically stoners who liked to dress in black and hang out in coffee houses and read weird poetry and listen to music and discuss philosophy.  Hippies were middle class kids who were pretty much rebelling against their parents and their way of life.  I actually was a hippie so I know that group intimately/.  We wanted everybody to love each other and world peace but we wanted to have fun too and we did.  The beatniks were somber types and we were wide open; just look at Woodstock and Haight-Ashbury.

Answer 3

Well there are some things that really stand out.

Beatniks: Short hair

Hippies:long hair

Beatniks:Black and White

Hippies:Lots of color

Beatniks:literature and folk music

Hippies:Acid rock...altough many like folk

Beatniks:Have intelegent conversations

Hippies:Smoke weed and think they're having intelegent conversations...but forget what they were talking about once sober.

Those are the most distinct features I noticed, but not all hippies and beatniks are like that.