Hippie subculture

The hippie subculture was a youth countercultural movement that emerged in the mid-1960s United States, most closely associated with San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and characterized by documented rejection of mainstream social and economic norms in favor of communal living experiments, psychedelic drug use, an ethic of peace and anti-materialism, and opposition to the Vietnam War. The movement is closely associated with, though not identical to, the broader youth counterculture and New Left political movements of the era, and with a documented explosion of countercultural music festivals, most famously the 1969 Woodstock festival. By the mid-1970s the subculture's distinct identity had substantially dissolved into broader mainstream culture and a range of successor movements, though hippie-descended communal and back-to-the-land communities continued, and continue, to exist in smaller, documented numbers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/