I hope to change the popular opinion of hippies.
Comparing my research findings to the hippie stereotype, I find a veneer of stigma upholding the popular ignorance about the movement. Counterculture critique sensationalizes the failures and dismisses hippies as a national embarrassment, of misaligned youth who were later set straight by the prosperity of…
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