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Hippies: Vietnam War
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What makes life different for the students in "Hippies" is the threat of war. When Matt, a senior, receives a low number in the Draft Lottery, which determined a young person's chances of being drafted, he is extremely worried. All of his options seem bad.
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By the mid-1960s, hippies began to appear in high schools, colleges, and enclaves around the country. Their unique combination of hedonism and morality depended on the spin they placed on the "generation gap" that separated them from their elders: in high moral gear, hippies projected every conceivable social and ethical defect of society onto their parents--the generation who, having survived depression and war, clung to middle-class prosperity and values like drowning sailors to a life vest. From the perspective of the young, this "materialism" was evidence of the bleak life of "straight" society, and of the moral bankruptcy that spawned war, environmental damage, racism, and sexual persecution.
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Certainly it's not true as, many hippies thought, that the average American believed that Vietnam was an immoral war. Americans don't believe ANY war they fight is immoral and are always more than willing to bomb anyone who is sufficiently different than they are.
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