The Countercultures of the 1960’s and 2000’s

The sixties has distinguished itself as a ecstasy that saw great heathen and political upheavals. The causes of the sixties were struggling against the most problematic and difficult issues of post-war soldiery personnel racism and poverty, dehumanization in the prep ared humanness imputable to technology, and Third World liberation (Morgan 4). By the 1960s, the ghetto communities of California became overly poor, overly guardd, and extremely resentful. This stress in the midst of a racist and repressive law of nature force led to civil disturbance and fermenting in the United States.Growing unrest led to the show of the civil rights movements such as the melanise Panthers in Oakland, the Black Berets (Chicano) in San Jose, and the browned Berets in Los Angeles. In an effort to divert or destroy increase movements for social change, the government infiltrated most civil rights and fraternity activist groups, precipitating their demise or diminish their influence (Rodriguez 12). In the fall of 1966, two t hold backer black militants, Huey P. sassyton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther ships company in Oakland, California.They wanted to have African-the Statesn recital courses taught in the college as well as the commerce of additional black teachers but soon evolved in response to a survey of the friendship to take a ten-point platform which called for Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace. This basic ideology has been flexible enough to be adapted to catch the needs of all those who conceptualized the Black Nationalist difference as one of both race and split (Harris 162). The Brown Berets was an organization who initially led the cultural awareness and social-political activism in the 1960s for the young Hispanics.They were a freshly generation of Mexican students characterized by increase militancy over continuing inequity in education and inequality in economic opportunity. However, the Brown Be rets resistance to police harassment, coupled with their military idolatry and political romanticism caused the organization to worsen into militant violence and, gradually, to alienate the Mexican community and its youth altogether (Alfieri 1569). In the late 1960s, a group was formed calling for a new gay radicalism. It was called the Gay Liberation Front which aimed to get by the cultural homophobia alongface racism, sexism, and militarism.It was formed after the stonewall Riots which started with the raid on a gay bar. The police was met with very much resistance and shouts of Gay Power The movement aimed to free sexuality, transform the family as an institution, end anti-queer violence, and develop a new vocabulary for the erotic (Shepard 49). The 1960s also saw the rise of rock medical specialty and alongside it, the movement known as the counterculture emerged. Americas youth was vulnerable to the messages of rock musics sounds. From this emerged a group called the hippi e.Hippie meant different things to the aged(a) and younger generations. According to terrycloth Anderson in The Movement and the Sixties (1996) Parents usually stated that hippies included everyone revolt against something, or simply revolting to them, and mainstream journalists simply label them dirty, costumed protesters who had long hair, smelled, and smoked dope. Marijuana was the raw material of hippiedom, declared Time, L. S. D. its caviar, and Nicholas von Hoffman added, if the word means anything, it means a hippie is a dope dealer. At the end of the decade a journalist summed up the older generations level of knowledge of the counterculture when he gave his peers advise on how to spot a hippie Well, hippies advert like hippies (243). The hippies promote a bloodless revolution of young urbanites, who, although they protest against much in society, are non-violent protesters, and who symbolize their take in charge to eradicate western values by their home-made clothe s, their rejection of the distinction between decent and obscene, their disbelief in political solutions, and their desperate attempt to be folk (Wilson 195).In the twenty first century, fads and lifestyle are likewise influenced by music and less due to civil activism. It is rooted more on devour culture. Pop started in the underground in the crampfishcultural movements of Black youth, White gays or artistic avant-gardes pop as a way of living means a way of thinking and feeling, of living and also of destructionfrom Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain (Muggleton & Weinzerl 42).An example is Goth which was initially a melodic genre that emerged in the late 70s post tawdry era and has now evolved into a full-blown sub culture with the introduction of Gothic fashion and imagery movement. A Goth is someone who is usually into the darker side of the world is deep into thought and feeling and frequently creates or modifies their clothing usually consisting of mainly black. tribal designs and religion-related jewelry are common, such as crucifixes and pentagrams (Muggleton & Weinzerl 290).Then thither is hip-hop, a sub-culture or lifestyle which started as a severalise for the four elements of the late 70s New York city renaissance which includes break dancing, emceeing, (rapping) graffiti, and turntablism. We see its proponents wear unwarranted pants and shirts for men, tight pants and shirts for women and bling-blings. Music and leaping has also created an identity and a sense of belong within the clubbing crowd called rave technotribalism. 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