Trabajo en ingles sobre los hipies

1. The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the
United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other countries
around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and
was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's
Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The early
hippie ideology included the countercultural values of the Beat Generation.
Some created their own social groups and communities, listened to
psychodelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as
marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.
Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing
popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the
widespread movement in the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have
been assimilated by mainstream society. 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 myriad forms from
health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to
the cyberspace revolution.

2. Origins
The foundation of the hippie movement finds historical precedent as far
back as the counterculture of the Ancient Greeks, espoused by
philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics also as early forms of
hippie culture. Hippie philosophy also credits the religious and spiritual
teachings of Jesus Christ, Hillel the Elder, Buddha, Mazdak, St. Francis of
Assisi, Henry David Thoreau, and Gandhi.
Religion
Many hippies rejected mainstream organised religions in favour of a more
personal spiritual experience, often drawing on indigenous beliefs and folk
religions, among others. If they adhered to mainstream faiths, they
embraced Buddhism, Hinduism and the Jesus Movement. Many hippies
embraced neo-paganism (especially Wicca) as well.
Politics
The peace symbol was developed in the UK as a logo for the Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament, and was embraced by U.S. anti-war protestors during
the 1960s (though it is copyrighted). Hippies were often pacifists and
participated in non-violent political demonstrations, such as civil rights
marches, the marches on Washington D.C., and anti–Vietnam War
demonstrations, including draft-card burnings and the 1968 Democratic
National Convention protests.
Legacy
Newcomers to the Internet are often startled to discover themselves not
so much in some soulless colony of technocrats as in a kind of cultural
Brigadoon - a flowering remnant of the '60's, when hippie communalism and
libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution...
Stewart Brand, "We Owe It All To The Hippies".The legacy of the hippie
movement continues to permeate Western society. In general, unmarried
couples of all ages feel free to travel and live together without societal
disapproval. Frankness regarding sexual matters has become more common,
and the rights of homosexual, bisexual and transsexual people, as well as
people who choose not to categorize themselves at all, have expanded.