What is the difference between a "Hippie" and a "Yippie"?

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What is the difference between a "Hippie" and a "Yippie"?

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Last updated Jun 15 2021.

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When asked to define ‘yippie’ Jerry Rubin said that a yippie was a hippie who had been hit on the head by a policeman.

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www.wlv.ac.uk article, no longer online]

Response last updated by CmdrK on Jun 15 2021.
Jun 28 2007, 5:02 PM

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Hippie refers to the counter-culture that began in the United States in the late 1960s. Yippie refers to the Youth International Party, established also in the late 1960s. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were two of the more famous Yippies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_International_Party

What is the difference between a "Hippie" and a "Yippie"?

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