Counterculture In The 1960s

In the late 1960s, a counterculture movement developed and it lasted for about eight years. It coincided with America's involvement in Vietnam. The counterculture was the rejection of conventional social norms that was in place in those years, it was carried out by the hippie. A typical hippie of the 1960s belong to a white middle class citizen. The youth involved in the counterculture rejected the cultural standards of their parents, racial segregation and the initial support for the Vietnam War. The main goal of the hippie is to develop their own values which involved love, peace and rock n roll. Rock and roll music played a key role in the integration and establishment of the hippie movement, many hippies protested during the movement by