... out of the mainstream United States society to join this alternative style of living. The people of the counterculture were more commonly called hippies. Hippies promoted a different bright colored clothing, sex, drugs, rock music, and independent free style of living. The people of the counterculture lived in groups called communes that were set up in larger cities around the world. Some ... beneficial to the area and the land that had just been sitting there governor Ronald Reagan considered the Berkley campus and People's Park "a haven for communist sympathizers, protestors and sex d...

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... is evident that it was seen in different aspects of society, as we see various groups exposed to it. The 1960's could very well be defined as a time of racism, sex oppression and violence that many people struggled through. It was a time of "chaotic openness- that created many "limits of freedom- (Miller)....

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... -increasing number of Americans became dissatisfied with the impersonal aspects of mass society and large government, the war in Vietnam, and continuing aspects of discrimination against persons because of their sex, ethnic background, race, or life styles. The 1960s, therefore, witnessed many changes in attitudes, personal relationships, values, and even dress and manners....

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