In fact in the UK my opinion was that if you call yourself a hippy then you probably aren't.
I base this on the fact that my friends and I so labelled by parents were individualists to a man and woman. Mostly also motor cyclists but not the rocker sort that club together more sort of gentleman riders whatever their social status.
Long haired unconventional poets, artists, naturalists, experimenters in a variety of fields we were invariably labelled as 'those bloody hippies' by the less sympathetic genres of the general public but we were a tight knit group of loyal friends who have stayed in touch and visited each other in our various countries.
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